How do I prevent my disk from being bloated? What is &quot;Other&quot; and how do I prevent it from being bloated? I'm having to back up and format my hard drive every year due this happening.  As you can see, I have very little of everything else.  I mainly use some IDE's and web browsers and that's pretty much it. I'm using Catalina at the moment.
If you click the &quot;review files&quot; option to the right of that list it should let you see a break down of your files to help you make decisions and see what is taking up space on your volume.