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heplmefixmymacbooklol
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System Data taking too much space on MacBook Air, macOS Sequoia 15.3.2


I have a 2020 Macbookair and the system data is taking up way too much space, how can i fix this at home? After some research i found what was taking up the most space, it’s the containers file in library. I’m wondering if i can delete or delete something in it?

Posted on Nov 8, 2026 3:01 PM

2 replies

6x6
User level: Level 7 (26,777 points)

Nov 8, 2026 4:44 PM in response to heplmefixmymacbooklol

Do not touch the Containers folder. It contains important data for a lot of applications.


The issue you are having is only with the content of following folder:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mediaanalysisd/Data/Library/Caches


Do this:


  1. Quit the Photos application.
  2. Delete the content of the above folder.
  3. Update you Mac to macOS Sequoia 15.8.2 so that the issue does not recur.


For more information: com.apple.mediaanalysisd files filling drive in macOS 15.1.

etresoft
User level: Level 9 (60,836 points)

Nov 8, 2026 4:33 PM in response to heplmefixmymacbooklol

heplmefixmymacbooklol wrote:
it’s the containers file in library. I’m wondering if i can delete or delete something in it?

There are a couple hundred different containers folders there. If you can identify the one that's taking the most storage, we could give you better advice. Don't just delete the whole thing. That's all of your app data on the computer. That would be catastrophic data loss.

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256391031