Best Tips to Reclaim Mac Disk Spaces

Mac machines are fast and easy to handle, but in this digital time their hard drives space fill quickly with multiple files. Additionally, due to Internet, there are many other extra applications and junk files also available, which install on your Mac even without your knowledge and grab the spaces. All of these activities ultimately affect the speed of your Mac and make it slow. In order to speed up Mac, disk cleaning should be the first action; freeing spaces on the hard drive would automatically increase its speed. You just need to find out those large files, which are no longer needed and can be deleted or removed from the hard disk. By performing disc clean up activity regularly, you can easily enhance performance of your Mac system.

If system is suffering from low hard disk space, hanging up & regularly freezing issues, then cleanup process would be a very simple, yet powerful method for maintaining its original speed. To initiate the cleanup process you can try the below mentioned clean up ways to free disk space. This will allow you to restore the original performance and capabilities of your Mac like the time when you brought it from the store.

• Clean Your Desktop -

Most users have the habit to store every downloaded file or image to save in desktop, so that it would be easy for them to access it any time. With time when the desktop items increase; the system takes time to load them after booting up. Therefore, you must remove them first and try to put minimum apps and file on your desktop in future, so that the loading time of Mac can be decreased.

• Compress or Shift the Old Data -

In case there are some old large files stored on your Mac hard drive, which you do not want to remove. Then it is better to compress such files & folders or move them onto another external hard drive. Usually compression is a better way as you can always extract these files whenever you need them in future instantly.

• Remove Unnecessary Disk Images -

Usually people download multiple files and applications, but never think to clean Downloads folder. Actually Downloads folder stores all the downloaded stuff and it is obvious that Downloads folder capture a good amount of space on the hard drive. To clean them, go to Downloads folder and type disk image in the search box. Under the Kinds header choose Disk Image and remove all the downloaded DMG files, which are taking up the space.

• Cleanup the Widgets -

Widgets are nice and latest applications, which keep us to in touch with the real time information on your dashboard. However, if you have multiple widgets installed on your system, which are not required, but taking too much space, then the possibility of slow mac increases a lot. Therefore, it is always better to remove useless Widgets and try not to install too many widgets on your Mac machine.

• Empty the Mail Downloads -

Usually your system-configured mail gets multiple attachments via email such as PDFs, ePub ebooks, Word documents, images, etc. Usually people store them on their desktop or the download folder. However, do you know, if you double click on these Downloads folder then they are store into the Mail Downloads folder, which is hidden in your Library file. With the passage of time, this folder also increases in size and capture the space. Therefore, try to empty this folder regularly.

• Keep a Clean Cache -

This is the most common way to remove useless files from your Web browser and make Mac machine more fast and efficient. Mac machine stores all the information related to the browser in the cache files to allow quicker access to the data. But, at times, it fetches the old information from the cache instead of the latest one. Therefore, it is always better to remove the cache to get fresh information. In order to do that, you can manually remove the cache and also use a professional tool, which can remove your cache directory with other maintenance tasks; like remove the cookies, looking for corrupted preference files, rebuilding certain databases, etc. and make more empty space in your hard drive.

• Purge Unwanted Apps -

Mac offers multiple applications to its users and they regularly install & try them and delete the unwanted ones. In order to delete these apps you just need to drag and drop them to the Trash from the applications folder. However, some apps do create their folders outside the Applications, and it becomes difficult to find these locations on the drive. Due to which these unwanted apps keep in the Mac drive and eat the space ever after uninstallation. To resolve this issue you have two options, one is to manually search the locations of these apps and remove them, and the other is to install a professional app, which runs on the background and can help you to remove all such apps easily.

Hope the above mentioned tips will surely help you to overcome the slow speed of your Mac machine. You can either use manual way to resolve the issues or try third party utilities to manage & organized the unwanted files that slow it down.

Author Bio -

Donald Kepler loves to travel. He writes useful tips & tricks to speed up & optimizeMac OS X by drive defragmentation, drive cloning and imaging methods.