Storage Other still taking up a lot of space & is it ok to delete apps pre-installed in MBA?
Hi, I have checked the previous discussions on Storage HD problem in which suggestions to turn off backup, snapshots, even to using OmniDiskSweeper to reduce the space being used by Other but these suggested methods don't seem to work out for me.
I don't have auto backup turn on for Time Machine. If I don't have Time Machine on, do I still have to perform the Terminal function of "sudo tmutil disablelocal"?
I have used OmniDiskSweeper which revealed around 26.8GB files that I am pretty sure I need to keep, be it that the biggest size is the iTunes media folder in which converted audios are stored and taking 9.3GB of space.
Based on my screencap below on my Storage HD, I have basically nothing much in terms of Audio, Movies, Photos, Apps, Backups but almost half of the space is being taken up by Others, just mind puzzled me.
I know there are still space left and not critical but I just purchased this MBA last Christmas so I would like to be well prepared looking at the rate the Other storage is increasing each time. Any advice would be much appreciated. I am using external HD as Time Machine Backup and I do this backup manually. All my other audio, movies, photos, docs files are stored in another external HD.
My other question is that is it ok or advisable to delete apps that are pre-installed when we first received the MBA? I noted there are quite a number of apps that may not be of use (especially those under the Utilities folder) but pre-installed. In the event that I have uninstalled/deleted these pre-installed apps is there any way to restore or download them?? Are these apps the ones that are taking up the space under Other or they will just fall under Apps section? I also installed some widgets apps like around 8 of them - not sure how I can gauge the size of these widgets.
Thanks!
blinkable wrote:
I don't have auto backup turn on for Time Machine. If I don't have Time Machine on, do I still have to perform the Terminal function of "sudo tmutil disablelocal"?
No, as you notice in this screenshot, "backups" is Zero. This is where local snapshots would be stored.
My other question is that is it ok or advisable to delete apps that are pre-installed when we first received the MBA? I noted there are quite a number of apps that may not be of use (especially those under the Utilities folder) but pre-installed. In the event that I have uninstalled/deleted these pre-installed apps is there any way to restore or download them?? Are these apps the ones that are taking up the space under Other or they will just fall under Apps section?
You can delete the Apps. You can reinstall them at any time by inserting disc 2 (the applications disc that came with your mac). I don't use GarageBand or iMovie, so I deleted them. Apps just fall under the "Apps" category. I qquestioned the Genius Bar as to what is in "other" and they said it is impossible to say exactly what is in that category, it is slightly different for each user. It does include the operating system among other things. They told me to thing of it as an "etcetera" category.
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