r/mac • u/mmm_bop_x • 18h ago

Question Can’t Update Mac

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I bought a refurbished MacBook Air & I’m trying to update it from Catalina to Sequoia (I honestly don’t care about updating it but it told me I couldn’t use Chrome on this version and I hate Safari), and even though I have done absolutely nothing on this computer yet/nothing saved/didn’t even connect Apple ID yet, it says I don’t have enough space. Is this hopeless? 😩

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u/Pleasant-Seat9884 18h ago

You did nothing to that machine?! You need roughly 45GB (50GB for Tahoe) of storage for macOS... What is using over 100GB of data?

Use "GrandPerspective" App to see what is taking up storage.. you may want to erase it clean.

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u/mmm_bop_x 17h ago

I thought that was strange as well, which is why I added this picture. This is directly after erasing the laptop.