11 Ways To Free Up Space On Your Mac

Are you looking for different ways to free up space on your Mac? You are in the right place. This post will help you make your Mac free of unnecessary files and other junk data. We have included third party apps for smart cleaning of your Mac device. If you want to clean your device by digging deep into MacOS, this guide has methods for that too. Let's see the ways to clean a Mac device. Clean browser data When you browse something on the internet, cache data is stored by the browser into the system. Every browser provides tools to erase this data. Let's see how you can delete this data in Safari. • Open Safari on your Mac and find browser History. • Find the Clear History option from the drop-down menu. • Blue Arrows will appear near Clear field. Choose the period like last hour, today, today & yesterday or all. • Now Hit the Clear History option to erase the data. Take advantage of the MacOS storage manager • Find and hit the Apple icon. The Apple icon will appear on the left side of the menu bar. • Find the About This Mac option under the drop-down menu. • A pop-up window will appear. You have to find the Storage tab. • Here MacOS will take time to find the storage. The storage capacity will appear in different divisions with various colors. Take the mouse on every storage division for more details. After ensuring everything, proceed on the next step. • Find and hit the Manage button. • The current screen may have an option called the Optimize button under the Optimizesection. If you find it, you have to click on it. This option helps in deleting watched media content like TV shows, movies. The email attachments will also be deleted. • If you wish to delete discarded files instantly, enable the option called EmptyTrash Automatically. These files will remain in the system for the next 30 days if you don't opt for this option. • Now hit the Review Files option. The Reduce Clutter section will have this option. Here you can gather data from different applications to delete. Delete music files and videos manually Storage optimization performs bulk data deletion, but you can delete media content like songs, videos manually. • Access the Music app. • Search the music files that you have stored locally to delete. • Hit the dotted option. • From the three-dot menu, choose the Remove Download option. Please ensure that you haven't selected the option called Delete from Library as this option will erase every music file. Delete movies and TV shows manually If you want to delete media content like movies and TV shows manually, follow the below steps. • Launch the Apple TV app. • Locate the movies or shows you wish to delete. • Hit the three-dot icon to get more options. • You have to choose the Remove Download option. Avoid choosing Delete From Library. Erase downloaded files manually You often download multiple files from the web, and all are stored in the computer's download section. • Go to Finder. • You have to find and click on the Downloads located on the left. • Find the files you have to download and right-click on that file. Now choose the option Move to Trash available in the pop-up menu. • Now find the Trash icon and right-click on it. Choose Empty Trash from the pop-up to delete files from the trash. Delete junk emails • Access the Mail app. • Choose Mailbox. • Find the option called Erase Junk Mail from the drop-down. • Choose the Erase Deleted Items from the drop-down. Clear the "other" data The data that comes under the "other" category are the following: • Cache generated by unused apps. • Temporary files. • Backups. • App plugins. • Downloaded files that are stored separately. Erase cache folders • Go to Finder and choose Go from the menu bar. • The drop-down menu will have an option called Go to Folder. You have to select it. • A blank text box will appear. You have to enter ~/Library/Caches, and after that, hit the Go button. • Now you get files and folders. Choose the folder you have to delete and right-click on it. Then click on Move to Trash from the pop-up. • Now clear the trash by clicking on Empty Trash. Erase unwanted Time Machine backups MacOS contains old Time Machine backups. This backup data may create problems if a device has 128GB. Use the below instructions to delete the backups. • Go to Finder and choose Application from the left. • Click two times on the Utility folder to access it. • Also, click two times on the Terminal app. • Use the command like tmutillistlocalsnapshots / and after that click the Return Key. • Here a snapshot of Time Machine will appear started with com. apple.TimeMachine including date and ended with .local extension. • Again, use the command like sudotmutildeletelocalsnapshots. After that command, type the numerical sequence like 2020-12-22-130031 followed by a space. Use this step for other backups. If you provide the command correctly, you will receive a message like Delete Local Snapshot. • Now hit the Return key. Delete additional unnecessary files Here is another excellent way to erase unnecessary data. Use a file extension and collect the files with the same extension according to size. This act shows the most extensive files on the top, and you can delete them to free up more storage. • Go to the desktop screen and hit the Command and F keys at once. • Choose the current Mac from the pop-up, if not selected. • Hit the Arrows in the first search and then use Other from the drop-down. • Tick-mark the box near File Size and File Extension from the pop-up. Now hit the OK button. • Type a file extension in the search bar to find more files with the same extension. • Please select the file you wish to delete and right-click on it and then choose Move to Trash from the pop-up. • Delete the file from trash by clicking on Empty Trash from the pop-up. Consider third-party tools In addition to all the above methods of cleaning Mac, you can also consider third-party tools. They are CCleaner, CleanMyMac X, Disk Doctor, and Gemini 2. You can get the one based on your requirements. Read more - https://roothelpsoftware.wordpress.com/2021/01/18/11-ways-to-free-up-space-on-your-mac/