Manage Your Storage
The multiple-terabyte hard drives of today may seem to have solved all our storage problems, but that doesn’t mean we can’t find ways to fill up every bit of the storage we have. And while desktop Macs have bulked up their storage space over the years, laptop Macs actually have less storage than models from six or seven years ago, as Apple has transitioned from mechanical hard drives to solid-state storage (the MacBook Air has at most 512 GB of flash storage).
High Sierra’s new file system and space-saving improvements to apps like Mail will help with this problem. But you can also use built-in tools to help you wrangle your bytes. To find them, choose Apple > About this Mac > Storage and click the Manage button (Figure ...
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