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In my experience, Macs use up a ridiculous amount of "System" storage for no reason that users can't delete. I've grown tired of family members asking me to help them free up storage that I can't even find. That's the major issue from what I've seen; unless this app prevents apple deliberately eating up 50%+ of the storage space of a machine, this doesn't do much for the people I know.


These are often Time Machine snapshots. Nuking those can free up quite a bit of space.

    sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
    sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots <date_value_of_snapshot>


Even without time machine there are loads of storage spent on “system”. Especially now with the apple intelligence (even when turned off).


Apple "Intelligence" gets its own category in 15.3.1.


You don't need Terminal even, you can view and delete them in Disk Utility.


There's no magic around it, macOS just doesn't do a good job explaining it using the built in tools. Just use Daisy Disk or something. It's all there and can be examined.




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