One easy setting is to enable “ Optimize Storage“, which will automatically remove TV show episodes and movies once you’ve watched them. One strategy you can use is to utilize some of Apple’s disk management tools. In the above you can see that I have a 1TB drive of which 384GB are available, that Documents is the biggest category in terms of disk space utilized, and that my (purple) Music library is eating up 61.15GB of disk space.
The smaller segments aren’t labeled, but if you move your cursor over them, the pop-up will show category and size. Then it’ll analyze your disk drive:Īfter a few moments, the grey ‘calculating’ will be replaced by a colorful display of what category of data is consuming your used space: That’s most easily done by choosing “About This Mac” from the Apple menu on the top left corner of your screen:Īs highlighted, you want to click on the “ Storage” tab along the top. But let’s start at the beginning, ascertaining where your disk space has gone. Which is important because it’s probably not music files that are eating up all your disk space! Music files are pretty small and if you have a 2TB drive, that’s space for tens of thousands of songs. Why they didn’t create an “iOS Manager” to make it more logical I cannot explain, but what you think of as a monolithic media app is now a tiny little suite of programs. The TV and video content is now in the “TV” app, and the portion of iTunes that let you manage content on your mobile devices – e.g., iPhones and iPads – has been (confusingly) integrated into the Finder and no longer has its own standalone app. Turns out that iTunes has split into a couple of different programs as of the last major MacOS X update, actually, and iTunes itself has been renamed “Music”. Data doesn’t tend to “age out” either, so if you fired up a game two years ago that downloaded a few gigabytes of data, that huge data file is still sitting on your computer and will do until you finally remove the game! However big our disks become, it’s still the case that we do need to manage the files, videos, archives, and other content that we store and that is copied or saved by our favorite games and applications.
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