What is other? It's taking up allot of space on my Macbook Air with 10.9.2
I would like to know what is taking up space on my Macbook Air 23gb of other. I'm running 10.9.2. Also how to I run my iphoto libarary off of an external drive?
Thanks
23gb of other is not excessive. Read this:http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
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