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The Storage Profile is one long screen that shows your Mac's "storage DNA": who this Mac is, what you actually work on, and where everything lives. It includes:

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Everything is measured on your Mac. Open it from More ••• → Storage Profile or the Storage Profile card on Home. See the personas.

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Freeing up space · Storage Profile, charts and Home

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What is the Storage Profile in Storage Studio?

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Short answer: It's a single screen showing your Mac's storage DNA: a persona, the files you actually work on, storage over time, what's stored and where, cloud accounts, biggest space-users and suggestions — all measured on your Mac.

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The Storage Profile is one long screen that shows your Mac's "storage DNA": who this Mac is, what you actually work on, and where everything lives. It includes:

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  • a persona with a short story and a suggested next step from Tuhi,
  • What you actually work on — your recently opened files,
  • Your storage over time charts,
  • What's stored by category and Where it lives across Mac, drive and cloud,
  • Connected cloud accounts, Biggest space-users and Suggestions,
  • Storage Studio's own footprint.
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Everything is measured on your Mac. Open it from More ••• → Storage Profile or the Storage Profile card on Home. See the personas.

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