Sometimes, I could pull my hair out and cry to sleep due to an issue with Apple’s system data. What am I talking about? Well, let’s read on.
MacBook Pro
When I got a new MacBook Pro due to my old one’s battery expanding, I thought I would go for one that was a little bit more beefy. It is not like a beefy sandwich or burrito, but it is a bit more potent than the one I had before I picked it up.
Let’s review the old one.
- Year 2019 model 13” model
- 2.4GHz Quad-core Intel Core I5
- 8GB 2133 MHz LPDOR3
- Intel Iris Plus Graphics 655 1536 MB
- 256GB Hard Drive
This was a good model; I enjoyed using it. It had a few issues, but I thought it would be good when I got it.
Note to self: 256 GB isn’t big enough for me to do things with, especially the darn system data. It would get nigh now, but I could usually restart my computer, and then it would go down.
Now, let’s look at the latest MacBook Pro I have.
- MacBook Pro 14”
- M3 Max Chip
- 36GB Memory
- 30-Core GPU
- 1TB SSD hard drive
- Space Black
- Supports my three external monitors
I like this laptop. But that is enough about MacBooks. Let’s talk about System Data.
System Data
I am unsure what this system data is about and why it takes up so much room on your MacBook. I got a notice the other day about low local storage. I was thinking, “What the heck? Why is it low?” I have 1 TB of data, and whenever I do something, I move it off to one of my NAS (Network Attached Storage) servers.
I went through and removed all the usual stuff
- Log files
- Cache files
- Temporary files
- I even removed OneDrive linking to my MacBook due to it being in the container at 400GB
- Did the backups to Time Machine after I did all the changes
- Still taking up
So what is eating up all the storage space? I even disabled Spotlight; I never really used it. I removed all the files, but the drive is still full of system data.
I even contacted Apple Support, and they looked at everything I did, but they can’t figure out the Spotlight stuff either.
Online
Looking online, I see that many people are having an issue with this system data crap, especially in Sequioa. I think it is a bug, and Apple needs to fix it. Something is chewing up that hard drive space. I am not sure why nothing worked for me that the people online said worked.
I even removed all the stuff from Spotlight
And added the following to the privacy
I am unsure why some people can get rid of it and others can’t.
Get fixed
I wonder if this will ever get fixed. I have a program called Clean My Mac, and it goes out and finds stuff to clean up that isn’t needed anymore. But nope, it hasn’t cleaned up this crap. So I can get my storage back.
Update
I have removed OneDrive from the computer, unlinked the account, and removed 400GB from the storage. I also removed 220 GB for some screen recordings, but it only took away 200 GB.
But it is still growing. What the heck is going on?
