

If you don’t want to use a USB stick or portable drive – or Next, get a large 128GB USB stick or a portable hard drive and transferĮverything off the computer. Next, throw everything you want to keep into one folder. DeleteĮverything you don’t need and empty the Trash. Is usually the Downloads folder, the Desktop, and the Trash bin.

The next step is to go on a big deleting purge.įocus on areas where lots of files tend to accumulate. Unneeded Files Or Move Them Off The Computer But after trying it out, I’ve concluded it doesn’t do much more than what I have described above. While it never hurts to delete them, and they will be rebuilt, they're nowhere nearly as big as some of the other offenders and the system does a pretty good job at managing them nowadays.There are apps that do all of this large file sorting for you, such as the free OmniDiskSweeper. They do it to speed things up and make for a better, faster experience when you go back to those sites again. Sometimes apps you frequently use and web browsers save data in order to load things faster. Sort by attachments and delete all those old, joke PPT files chuck full of images and movies you never wanted your friends or family to email you anyway! Cache files If you don't do any of that, pay attention to how much data is stored in Mail.app and see if you can do some house cleaning there as well. If you use Apple's Mail app or another third party app, your Mac is saving email attachments and message archives unless you've told it not to or route attachments elsewhere, like to Dropbox.

The most common offenders when it comes to eating up storage space are media files.
