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Even these days, MacBooks still have tiny hard drives that fill up quickly.
Luckily there are quick and easy ways to free up disk space on your hard drive.
Here’s how to clean up your Mac’s hard disk and reclaim some drive space.
Empty Your Trash Cans
The Trash on a Mac is equivalent tothe Recycle Bin on Windows.
But Macs can actually have multiple trash cans, so you may need to empty several.
This will delete all the files you sent to the trash from the Finder.
iPhoto, iMovie, and Mail all have their own trash cans.
To do this, just Ctrl+click or right-smack the Trash option in that specific tool and select Empty Trash.
Some of these applications can be taking up a ton of space.
To find out which applications are using up the most space, open a Finder window and select Applications.
You’ll probably want to close iTunes before you do that.
Just check the things you want to remove, and then opt for Clean button.
Clear Out Temporary Files
Your Mac’s hard drive probably has temporary files you don’t need.
These files often take up disk space for no good reason.
Each web client limits its cache to a maximum amount of disk space, anyway.
Once you’ve selected what you want or don’t want to clean, just tap the Clean button.
So deleting temporary files is great, but only works for a while.
you’re able to then delete these space hogs to free up space.
Bear in mind that you don’t want to delete any important system files.
Your personal files are located under /Users/name, and these are the files you’ll want to focus on.
Remove Language Files
Mac applications come with language files for every language they support.
Click Clean, and your hard drive will be free of them.
Just open up Finder and head into your Downloads folder and start deleting everything you don’t need.
And those folders sit there looking innocuous but taking up tons of space on your drive.
Be sure to also remove other files you don’t need.
Like program installers on Windows, they’re useless after the program is installed.
Check your Downloads folder in the Finder and delete any downloaded files you don’t need anymore.
