My storage is full and I have 150 gbs of System Data. What can I do to lower the amount of storage used by system data on my 2020 Macbook Air (on Sonoma)?
I have so much storage being taken up by system data. I found a comment on a different post tell me to follow these steps:
1: Clear system cache: Go to Finder > Go > Go to Folder, then type in "~/Library/Caches" and hit enter. Select all the folders inside the Caches folder and delete them.
2: Clear system logs: Go to Finder > Go > Go to Folder, then type in "/var/log" and hit enter. Select all the files inside the Log folder and delete them.
3: Remove unused language files: Go to Finder > Go > Go to Folder, then type in "/Library/Languages" and hit enter. Delete all the language folders you don't need.
However, when I try to clear my caches, I have no idea what to delete. Do I just delete everything?
There are many files that are named something similarly to this: "com.adobe.acc.AdobeCreativeCloud"
Will deleting caches attached to application files cause issues with the associated app?
There also many that seem to be attached in some way to macOS: "com.apple.AppleMediaServicesUI"
My question is how do I know which caches I should delete? If I delete all caches indiscriminately will I run into issues launched applications?