This is getting ridiculous... I have absolutely NO IDEA why system data is taking so much storage, I've been told that 50GB is normal.. but 88GB?! There is NO WAY that 88GB is normal, It is eating up a LOT of storage and I've no idea.. Any solutions?
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 15.3
The current stable release of Sequoia including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 15.5 I would start there and compare your results...
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From another similar question to yours
System Data technically, has a mount point /System/Volume/Data
That doesn't seem so far out of order. Mine is
Part of the System Data might be any local snapshots if you have Time Machine enabled. See the screenshot below:
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Looks OK. Mine is always 75-85 GB on 3 of my Macs.
System data taking up LARGE amounts of storage, What's the solution?
