"Other" storage in Mac 10.9

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I have a Macbook Pro, 10.9 with 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. When I access the Utility app "System Information", this is what I got. enter image description here

There is a yellow block called "Other". What does "other" storage mean in this context?

Anything that is not Audio, Movies, Photos, Apps or Backup. Which really is a ton of stuff, most probably related to system files. — deceze, Jun 05 '14 at 16:19
@deceze Depends in my case most is not system files but data not in expected directories or application data — mmmmmm, Jun 05 '14 at 16:33
possible duplicate of How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space? — mmmmmm, Jun 05 '14 at 16:34

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 18:10

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If you look in to the available categories there are files that do not fit in to any.

That is why are they called others.

Nothing wrong with those files, they just did not fit the given categories.

answered Jun 05 '14 at 18:10

Ruskes

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 19 '16 at 22:51

This article is talking about this: “Other” Storage Space: The big monster of Mac OS X

Some examples of the files that may be cataloged as 'Other':

Archives and disk images, including zips, dmg, iso, etc Personal documents, contacts, calendar data Items in the OS X folders such as the System folder and caches App Plugins or extensions File types not recognized by Spotlight Documents and file types, including PDF, doc, PSD, etc

"Other" storage in Mac 10.9

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