¿ªÔÆÌåÓýDetecting what Other is, is very difficult. What OS do you have on your 2014 iMac?? Here¡¯s an idea:? Go to your Home folder ¡ Macintosh HD -> Users -> Howard (or whatever it's called)? Press shift-cmd-. That is Shift, Command and a full stop.? This will reveal hidden files and folders.? On newer systems, you can also - while in your User home folder press cmd-j and select Show Library folder Anyway ¡? ? Look in the Library folder - in list view. And sort the folders by size. You may find stuff that you had no idea was there. ? Mail probably takes up a lot of space - not much to do about that, except you can g? to Mail and empty your Junk folder and Trash folder.? Messages can take up tons of space too - and it¡¯s not the messages, it¡¯s the pictures and other ¡°attachments" that you get in messages. Did you get a video of your grandchildren playing in the garden? Did you click download so it was imported to Photos? If so, this video is stored twice on your computer. In messages and in Photos.? Cleaning up this mess is tiresome and a lot of manual work. Someone may know an app that can help you.? To do it manually: Open a conversation in Messages, click on the info-thing - a circle with an i in it, in the upper right corner. Scroll down to see alle the images from that conversation. Cmd-click those you don¡¯t need and ctrl-click to select Delete. As I wrote: Tiresome.? You can also - and I¡¯m on thin ice here, because I can¡¯t remember what it was like in the OS you have which is probaby Big Sur? Anyway .. in later OS lige Sequoia which I use, I can go to System Settings -> General -> Storage -> Messages and see every image, video etc that is stored ¡ and delete what I don¡¯t need to keep.? Enough about Messages.? Another folder in your Library is Application Support - and it does not sound like anything anybody would tamper with. But ¡ There may be a folder inside Application Support called Mobile Sync ¡ and you may find old phone backups that takes up considerable space, and that you probably don¡¯t need. If sothey can be deleted.? So all of this could be ¡°Other¡±. Regarding your new Mini, I¡¯ll second what Ben said. Go for a 1 TB drive. It¡¯s worth it!? And before you migrate, copy some of the heavier stuff - like your Photos Library or Music Library to an external drive, and delete it from the internal drive. You can always put it back. It will assure you, that Migration Assistant won¡¯t stop wth the Not enough space warning.? And like Ben said ¡ if your 2014 internal SSd is in good condition, and why shouldn¡¯t i be? - take it out and fit in an external enclosure. It¡¯s a good thing to have.? :-)? Peter?
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