

You can also look at the built in Disk Utility. The directory has restrictive permissions, so I assume that was the culprit.ĭeleting that directory isn't harmful to the system as far as I know, and it regenerates when the OS needs it again. Daisy Disk, however, did find a glob of ~75 GB that it couldn't scan because of permissions, even when scanning as admin. Now my System section is 50 GB (used to be 120 GB).ĭisk Inventory X gave me different sizes than the System Information window and it didn't find any problematically large files. The system couldn't read the size of the directory so I figured it was a problem folder, so I deleted it, emptied the garbage, and restarted. I read an answer somewhere to an issue related to this that I could delete the folder in /System/Library/Caches/. I restarted a few times and nothing seemed to happen. But resetting the SMC works differently depending on whether you have one, so determine. One night the size of the 'System' section of my storage increased 40 GB in an hour (though, I am running the High Sierra Beta). Issue persists macOS Big Sur battery drain & overheating. 8 replies To downgrade macOS via Time Machine, plug your Time Machine backup drive into your Mac, then restart the computer. If it mounts, click First Aid in the toolbar and proceed to complete a check.

Boot into Recovery Mode and open the Disk Utility, then click your internal disk and click mount in the toolbar.
MAC OS SIERRA TOO LARGE FOR RESET MAC
I believe that when I got my MBP, the size was around 16 GB. If you’ve check the Symptoms list above and your Mac isn’t working correctly, your first step is recovery.
