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System Data on mac os went up to 780 gbs

BurntNewt
By BurntNewt
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I have 1 Tb on my mac i was uploading photos to the cloud from my phone and downloading them on photos from my mac, all of a sudden i get a notification that i have low storage to see i have 3 gb left out of 1 tb it says 780 are in system, i called apple support to no avail and still have no storage left is there anything i can do or try to fix this? they suggested rebuilidng spotlight index but idk how that would help 

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Can we see a screenshot of the storage part of "about this mac"? Best to remove any identifying information from the pic.

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4 hours ago, whispous said:

Can we see a screenshot of the storage part of "about this mac"? Best to remove any identifying information from the pic.

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Rundown on what it is and some solutions here: https://www.macworld.com/article/676493/how-to-delete-system-storage-on-mac.html

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