TOTAL SPACES BIG SUR UPDATE

There’s a reason why Apple doesn’t make it easy to delete things that fall under these sections – doing so could stop things working on your Mac. This will allow us to conveniently update yabai via our package manager in the future. Saving free space, especially on Intel Macs. The latter two are the ones taking up the most space on our Mac – and frustratingly Apple doesn’t make it easy for you to delete from these.

The problem is that when you have done all this you are still confronted with the mysterious Other and Other Volumes in Container. I am running Big Sur 11.5.1 and installed TotalSpaces 2. It’s easy to delete these potentially freeing up some GB of storage. If you have set up Messages so that all your texts appear on your Mac as well as your other device, all the images that are sent to you will be stored on your Mac. One option that might be of interest here are the ability to delete the images from Messages. The Reduce Clutter option allows you do easily delete some of the things taking up the most storage. store in iCloud, Optimise Storage and so on.

Here you will see something like I did: GB of space attributed to Apps, Messages, Mail, … if you click on Manage you can choose from various options to take space back on your Mac: e.g. You can go to Apple menu > About This Mac and look at Storage. Apple does make it easy to remove some of the things that are taking up space on your Mac.

Total spaces big sur