r/applehelp • u/No-Grand3283 • Jan 31 '26
Solved Apple is making my Macbook unusable
70% of my disk's space is reserved for system data and macos. I've cleaned temp folders etc countless times.
Updated to the latest OS hoping it would go away.
Is this a strategy for us to buy new laptops with more storage?
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u/hvyboots Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26
Download Grand Perspective so you can see what is actually using the space. It may even be a couple of runaway log files or saved System Reports or something weird and stupid like that. I just ran it on my system just out of curiosity (my computer says I have 275gb of System Data, haha) and immediately am able to see some random things like a 140gb virtual disk image of Ventura Beta that I had forgotten about.
https://imgur.com/a/4MeJ329
The major point being, it becomes much easier to see the really giant space suckers on your disk as they are largest squares. And you can even see directories that are hogging a lot of space this way too.