Here’s How to Do a Mac Disk Cleanup

Invisible junk on your computer can take up an enormous amount of space. If you are wondering how to clear disk space on your mac, you have found the right article. 

Disk space on your mac may be filled up with all kinds of old apps, files, or trash you don’t need. Clearing out your disk space will allow your mac to run faster and hold the files you need.

Keep reading to find out the steps you should be taking to do a mac disk clean-up and free up space. 

Uninstall Old Apps 

You may start small when beginning to clean up your mac. Going through all the apps you have and uninstalling the ones you never use. Many of us regularly try new apps, love them for a day, and forget about them the next.

There is no shame in that, but deleting those apps as soon as you don’t need them anymore will keep your mac’s system storage open for the apps you use day after day. 

Likewise, you may have many apps that came with your MacBook that you don’t want or need. You can delete those too! 

To get rid of an app all you need to do is right-click the app you don’t want anymore and move it to trash. 

Empty Your Trash

When you move anything to your trash on mac it doesn’t go away completely. Some of it does, but there are still leftovers. 

Emptying your trash fully deletes the things you don’t need anymore and will allow you more space when you are doing your mac disk clean-up. 

To empty your trash click and hold the trash icon. This will give you the option to empty the trash. Once you click that button you will not be able to get your files back, so be sure you do not delete anything important. 

Find and Delete Duplicate Files 

You may have many duplicate files on your mac, and you don’t even know it. Duplicate files are common. You accidentally download the same file, song, or photo, and those duplicates sit on your mac taking up your precious storage.

You can try to find duplicate files manually, but there is a good chance you will miss several. It would also take more time than it is worth. 

The best thing you can do is download a good finder and scan your Mac for duplicates. Once found you can easily delete the duplicates and free up a ton of space!

Complete Your Mac Disk Clean-Up

Of course, there are several more ways you can perform a mac disk clean-up. You could also delete your large or old files, freshen up your desktop, or get rid of old IOS backups.

Yet, if you start with this you should already have much more space than what you started with.