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system data

  1. JippaLippa

    350 GB of System Data

    Hello. I have very minimal macOS installations, and I'm very careful with my files, only keeping what's strictly necessary. This makes what happened to me, all the weirder... Despite my best efforts, I have a mysterious 350GB of "System Data" files in my Hard Drive. Being my HD 1TB and needing...
  2. blackxacto

    How do I turn off a reminder about a kext file soon to become incompatible?

    19,1 iMac, Sequoia 15.1.1: I am being constantly reminded that the CanonEOS1D.kext file, will soon become incompatible with Sequoia or later systems. Anyone know how to turn this off? I don't even use the Canon camera any longer. Actually, I want to trash all Canon kext files in my iMac, but I...
  3. J

    Huge System Data and Documents files filling up 1TB HD....

    I have an M1 Mac Mini from which I need to move the contents as I am upgrading to an M2 Mac Studio. I was going to ask the forum the best way to do this (just double-checking that Apple's Migration Assistant was the best route), when I realised I've got a different issue. I have a 1TB SSD HD on...
  4. G

    System Date too large

    Help. I have a mid-2015 Macbook Pro, OS is Monterey 12.6.7, SSD is 1TB. System Data is taking 459GB, almost half of the SSD. What can I do to reduce System Data? Thanks.
  5. D

    iPhone 14 Pro Max iMessage with iCould storage and transfer issues

    Did a direct transfer from my iPhone 12 Pro Max to the iPhone 14 pro max. Everything went smoothly until I realized that none of my attachments in messages had come over. They appeared in the messages when you scroll but not under the contact info at the top. Did a bunch of research and found...
    • Drewbinator
    • Thread
    • icloud imessage ios16 iphone iphone 14 pro max issue system data transfer
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: iPhone
  6. adamschoales

    Massive 100+ GB "System Data" since upgrading to Monterey

    Just upgraded to Monterey this weekend and noticed almost this exact behaviour. For me it was over 372 GB of "System Data" and my local storage went from around 1.3 TB to 870 seemingly overnight. I know that I didn't use this much before because I have a clone of my hard drive pre-upgrade that...
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