Click on More Info to expand the view, and then click on the Storage tab.To find this information, click on Apple Menu | About This Mac. First, it’s a safe practice to find out exactly what “ other” is occupying on the hard drive.This freeware app is exactly what is needed to find out what is occupying the space on your HDD and snuff it out just as easily.
Other times, one needs to “ delete with an iron fist“. This adds a layer of garbage data which could be corrupt and essentially exists only to hog resources, and that’s never good! Q: How do I get rid of Other data? ( OS X)Ī: There’s an answer for that too! Most of the time, general maintenance such as running File and Disk Permissions takes care of a lot of the overhead. Worse still is that due to the dynamic nature of data, things change, settings are updated and files overwritten, yet with some of the “ other” data it becomes appended to instead of replaced. The problem with the Other category, aside from the vagueness of it, is that any and all forms of data that are included in that category add to the total number of GBs being utilized – and sometimes – it would appear that there are 10’s ( or 100’s) of gigabytes being taken by it. From Spotlight index searches to databases to collections of settings for applications and the subsets of data they access. Not just specifically the data a user creates or accesses regularly, like documents or music, but all forms of data. ( Figure A) Q: What is “other” space used for? ( OSX/iOS)Ī: In it’s simplest terms, your data. So, I did a little digging and this is what I found as far as what it’s used for and how to delete it so the space gets freed up for use with other tasks. While Apple OSs generally maintain a good balance between chewing up too much data for system resources and recycling it back when done, this “ other” section really has a lot of people concerned. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve been repeatedly asked about the infamous “other” space section found in OS X and iOS devices. How to find and delete pesky ‘other’ data in OS X and iOSįor users who suspect the vague category of "other" data is hogging space and resources on their OS X or iOS systems, here is how to investigate what it is and delete it.
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