Sometimes it might be the moment to bid your current iPhone goodbye and splash out for a new one ( after trading in), but other times the issue of sluggish iPhone might be within your control. Hope this helps and hope my explanation was good enough to follow.After you've used your iPhone for a while, it's natural for it to start slowing down. Doing this along with deleting your iPhone backups and ensuring you only have one - the most recent - will surely free up space in 'other'. I deleted all archived messages and it freed up over 50gigs. DELETE all of these and then empty from trash and you will see a lot of space free up in 'other'. Navigate to that folder and you will see all of your archived messages. If you click the magnifying glass in the top right corner and type in the contacts name, the archived message will show up in your finder. I deleted the message in the Messages app and that DID NOT free up any space and then I realized that even when you delete a message from the Messages app on your mac it does not delete the Archive of that message. For example: I use the Messages app on my computer and I have a group chat with all of my friends and we share countless attachments every day. All of your texts as well as attachments files are saved to your computer. I also found another way to delete 'other'. When you're done with it, quit it and also quit Terminal. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. I don't recommend that you make a habit of this. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.Īfter installing ODS in the Applications folder, drag or copy - do not type - the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:

☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. The application is in the folder that opens. ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.) ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways: No matter what happens, you should be able to restore your system to the state it was in at the time of that backup. To really see everything, you have to run it as root.įirst, back up all data if you haven't already done so. ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking it only sees files that you have permission to read. Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved. Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space.

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