JUNE 2019 MACWORLD 101M
acOS can act in mysterious
ways, and it can be difficult
from either the Finder or
through ; → About This Mac
→ Storage view to figure out exactly what is
eating up your disk storage. Especially on
external drives, which the Storage display
doesn’t break out into categories, or when
System or Other seems to be occupying a
truly enormous portion of your drive, and
you can’t find a folder with that much data
in it to examine.
Third-party apps can help. Several
apps can graphically represent storage in
detailed categories or by folders (or both).
Some of those go further and can identify
duplicated or unnecessary data you can
remove, or can let you select files orIMAGE: APPLE
How to find and clean what’s
eating up your Mac’s disk storage
Visualize whirled disks.
BY GLENN FLEISHMAN