How To Clean My Mac Hard Drive For Free

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EaseUS CleanGenius is a powerful and easy-to-use cleanup software for Apple Mac users, making your Apple Mac system run faster and free up hard drive space by cleaning up the System Caches, User Caches, System Logs, User Logs, User Downloads, Trash, and Safari Internet Cache, etc. CleanGenius allows enjoying smooth & better system performance. To turn off iCloud Drive entirely, deselect iCloud Drive. If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Options next to iCloud Drive. Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders and Optimize Mac Storage settings. In Photos, choose Photos Preferences, then click iCloud.

Your trusty Macbook Air running low on disk space? The dreaded ‘Your disk is almost full’ message has popped up at the most inconvenient time? Happens to the best of us. Here is everything you need to know to easily tackle regular maintenance work and get your Mac back up and running.

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Step 1: Empty Trash

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The first thing you should do is empty your Trash. That is right, you might have been doing a decent job at maintaining you Mac clean, however, deleted files still take up space on your hard drive until your Trash is emptied. To do that simply navigate to your Trash, then right-click and choose ‘Empty Trash’.

Step 2: Clean up Desktop & Downloads

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Once that is done, take the time to review what is going on in your Downloads folder as well as on your Desktop. Check up on all those files you have been downloading, sort away the ones you plan on keeping, and remove the unwanted rest by simply dragging-and-dropping the files to the Trash or hitting Command + Delete after selecting the files.

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Step 3: Uninstall Rarely Used Apps

Follow up by sifting through the apps that you have installed on your Mac. Chances are that some of them have been sitting on your drive for a while without any use at all. Some apps tend to take up major space while other simply clutter your Apple computer with temporary files and unnecessary folders. If you want to keep your OS X cleaner, then there is no point in keeping the apps that you no longer need. Drag the out-of-use apps from the Applications folder and drop them into Trash. Make sure you Empty Trash once done.

Step 4: Delete or Move Large Media Files

Another quick disk clean-up solution is to delete or move to external drive large media files. After all, large files are the ones that take up big chunks of your Mac’s storage. Typically, those are movies, music, games, etc. For more info choose Apple Menu > About This Mac, then click Storage to see what takes up the space on your hard drive.

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If you cannot set your heart on deleting that favorite TV series season that you rewatch every once in a while, but still need the disk space, then consider getting an external drive to store these kinds of files.