Another thing to look for is old backups of mobile devices. If your recent backups are in iCloud, you may find ones on your Mac are well out of date and unnecessary. Look in About This Mac > Storage > Manage > iOS Files.
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On Dec 18, 2024, at 15:49, Christina via groups.io <fmlyhntr@...> wrote:
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I am probably getting a new computer (looking at a mini) and as I started to look deeper, I realized my 2015 Imac running High Sierra had 1T of memory and I was using about 530 GB. And that seemed like a lot, so I started going down rabbit holes, and OMG. I somehow had bred a lot of files especially in various media folders that were I don't remember downloading, I had a LOT of duplicates in Iunes...It took a couple of hours, but I deleted enough that I am now am using just over 100 GB of memory.
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Obviously I should have looked down those rabbit holes years ago, I'm glad I did it as I now have a much better idea of what I need in memory.
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A question about memory in new computers: does the system files use that much less memory?
Ben Rosenthal