3: Reboot the Mac & Install System Updates
DMG file, zip file, or archive it came from. Jump to your ~/Downloads directory and sort by file size, then delete anything (everything) you don’t need any more.Ī good future habit to help manage the downloads directory is this: once you install an app, delete the installer. The user downloads folder is notorious for growing gigantic when left unchecked for a while, and it’s often the easiest pickings.
It’s a good idea to relaunch apps from time to time for this reason, particularly web browsers. You can also delete the cache files manually, but it’s much easier to just relaunch your apps and have the OS clear it for you. If you haven’t quit these apps in a long time, those cache files continue to grow, and generally they aren’t cleared out until the app is quit. Here are five quick tips to free up space on a hard drive with Mac OS X…Īpps like Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Photoshop, Spotify, and many others, create temporary cache files while they’re in use.
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