How to reduce 120GB system data on Mac beyond clearing caches?

mare131313 wrote:

So, i have this system data built up from God knows what because catches is not one.

Ive tried to clear some space in my Mac but is futile. Very frustrating at this point because this SD is the biggest culprit of all, more than 120gb.

Pls help me with a diferent option than what i already found on youtube. Pls pls pls!!

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Original Title: syatem data too big

Let us guess how this happened

The Drive Capacity of this computer maybe of the 256 GB variety ?

Are we warm ?

The System Data mentioned, has a mount point of /System/Volume/Data which makes this Volume part of the Operating System

That said, it is not possible to reduce it - full stop

If you do a search on the front page of these forums using, System Data is using too much space

You will find this issue has been discussed at great length, refer image below

The more  popular and effective ways to address this issue is to Start Over from Scratch 

For Apple Silicon computer >> Use Disk Utility to erase a Mac with Apple silicon.

For Apple Intel computers >>   Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac followed by How to reinstall macOS

Always make a Time Machine Backup  before  proceeding 

It is also suggest to  Only Migrating the User Account and nothing more.

Emphasis on User Account Only

Reinstall the Needed and not the Wanted applications from the Apple Apps Store or Directly from the Developers 

You might want to reinstall macOS In order to regain control over your system data growing too large

Note that System Data is also a catchall for items generated by apps that don't neatly fit into other categories.