How to Clear Space used by downloads?? | The Apple Den | Page 1

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:25 AM

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So, i wanted to install the ms excell and it stopped at 100% and its not installing and i want to clear the space used by but its not showing in the applications folder.How do i do it now?

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How to Clear Space used by downloads??

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:26 AM

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midnight venture So, i wanted to install the ms excell and it stopped at 100% and its not install...

If you go to settings, do you see it under storage?

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:26 AM

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chrome nymph If you go to settings, do you see it under storage?

system preferences?

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:27 AM

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midnight venture system preferences?

Oh wait this is the Mac right

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:27 AM

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chrome nymph Oh wait this is the Mac right

yess

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macos monterey

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:27 AM

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I thought this was the iPhone, my bad

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:27 AM

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never mind

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:27 AM

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If you cancel the download, it shouldn't take any space

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:28 AM

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it stopped the download rather than cancelling it

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:28 AM

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Hm

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Have you done a restart to your Mac?

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:28 AM

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and it automatically downloads the paused download by itself 😭

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:28 AM

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chrome nymph Have you done a restart to your Mac?

2-3 days ago

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should i do it now?

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:29 AM

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Sure

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Give it a shot

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:29 AM

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alright let me do it

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brb

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:29 AM

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Alrighty

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:33 AM

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it didnt help

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:33 AM

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https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253798157?sortBy=rank

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So this person had a similar issue, they list some things they tried

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see if they help you

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For them it didn't work, but it's worth a shot

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:34 AM

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let me check this out and i will let you know if it works or not

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:34 AM

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alrighty

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hopefully it does, but let's see

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:44 AM

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the only thing left to try is the safe mode

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other methods didnt help

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:48 AM

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Oh, that’s not good

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:48 AM

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and why is the applications using this much space???

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:48 AM

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It depends on the apps

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:48 AM

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i mean how???

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:48 AM

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Some apps are pretty big

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:49 AM

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in the applications its showing very small spaces acquired by the app

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:49 AM

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Hm

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:49 AM

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check this out

chrome nymph Aug 23, 2024, 2:53 AM

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hm, werid

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It seems off

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 2:59 AM

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chrome nymph It seems off

ikr

midnight venture Aug 23, 2024, 5:08 AM

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@chrome nymph it resolved on its own i dont know how but yeah it worked

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i installed clean my mac on it

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and cleaned some caches and in the time being it got resolved ig the app did it or idk how but yeah its alright now

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thanks for the help

#How to Clear Space used by downloads??