Sierra’s Built-in Storage Management Utility

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New with Sierra there is a built-in utility to help keep disk storage space available.  The function is part of the System Information.app and is accessed a few ways:

  1.  => About This Mac => Storage => Manage…
  2. (Hold the option key down)  => System Information… => Window => Storage Mangement (Cmd-U)
  3. /Applications/Utilities/System Information.app => Window => Storage Mangement (Cmd-U)

Once launched it will proceed to gather data sizes of categories of interest. The available and total disk space will be listed in the window’s name.

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First you’ll see some recommendations of ways to keep disk space available.  Each has its own set of gotchas so be sure to make note of the implications:

Store in iCloud

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There has been some interesting discoveries in the behavior surrounding iCloud Desktop and Documents.  See iCloud Desktop and Documents in macOS Sierra – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly for a full rundown. Even…

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