And in 5 years when it is time for the next Mac, they may think about more up-front storage.īut until then, Dave is doing them a service. Optimized iCloud storage may be one after the fact work around. But after the fact they have to deal with what they have. Good to know that DD is the better option as long as you give it the correct permissions.Īll well and good if the user does think about this before they buy.
#Why is mac system storage so high software
I am glad you got a clear picture of what is going on with your storage as it is important that no matter what you ultimately decide to do now and the future you need to know if your space issues are because of extra files you want to keep around or cruft that has been generated over the years either by the system or because of extra software was installed that you do not need or can do without. For my clients I have been putting in 1TB SSD's to replace their 1TB HDD's even if they are not yet using the storage as I know that I can always take those drives out in the future when the system I upgraded gets retired and either put the drive in an external enclosure or put it in to a newer system later on. Plus, I assume the time you are spending now and have spent in the past working around the limitations has a cost that is more than the cost of the storage.
Now I know we are taking macOS here but still the same lazy devs exist that make those assumptions and will continue to do so. you can manually direct iTunes, Photos, Mail and other apps to use other drives for their storage but soon you will come up against a wall that can not be worked around easily or at all as not all applications are well built and many I have had to deal with on both macOS and Windows assume your main partition is where your files live.
Just because you are a power user/Dave The Nerd 🤓 and can work around these issues, I just know that having dealt with these things in the past you are making a lot more work for yourself in the future by using working around the issue versus just getting more internal storage for your files.
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