If you are a Mac user, you must have encountered the following error at least once in your life:
“Your Disk Is Almost Full. Save Space By Optimizing Storage”
As obvious from the statement itself, it pops up when your Mac is running out of storage space. If you keep ignoring this warning and do not optimize your storage timely, your macOS might have to face issues like unresponsive dialogues, system freezes, crashes, and in some cases, even data loss!
In this guide, we’ll discuss a few solutions to this problem:
Uninstalling Unwanted/Unused Applications
Do you still need the photo editing program you downloaded back in 2012? Do you still use the Virtual Machine you created in your Mac for a college project? If no, it’s best to get rid of them by uninstalling all such applications that are no longer in use.
Doing so will allow your SSD to recover some space for the more important tasks/files. Here’s how you can delete unused applications:
- Make sure that you Quit the app that are planning to uninstall.
- Head to Go and then Applications.
- Drag the icon of the app that you want to remove to the Trash.
- Open up the Trash. Here, you can remove the app permanently.
It’s a doodle!
Deleting System Logs
Did you know that your macOS always keeps a record of each and every event, error, and exception in the form of log files? This record is not just a brief one. Instead, there’s a detailed description of the process details or activities that might help you in debugging.
In case your Mac is already running smoothly, you may not need these system logs as such. To free some precious space on your Mac’s SSD, you can delete them by following these simple steps:
- If there’s any app currently open, Exit from it.
- Head to the Dock and open Finder.
- Go to the Go menu and then click on Go to Folder.
- Type in the following path over there: ~/Library/Logs
- Hit Go and the path will be opened up.
- To select all the existing log files, press command + A together.
- Drag all the selected files to the Trash.
- Empty the Trash to get rid of the log files permanently.
Emptying Trash
When you delete a file in your Mac, it isn’t permanently deleted. Instead, it ends up in Mac’s Trash. You will only be able to recover tons of space when you get rid of unwanted file permanently. Here’s how you can do so:
- Head towards the Dock and then click on the Trash icon.
- You will now be able to see a new context menu.
- Click the Empty button on the right corner.
- There will be a blue Empty Trash button. Click on it.
That’s pretty much all you have to do to empty the trash.
Deleting Duplicate Files
Duplicate files are usually scattered all across a user’s computer. These may generate while you’re transferring files from one location to another or simply when you are downloading files from the internet.
Apart from unnecessarily occupying storage space in your Mac device, duplicate files also make it more consuming for you to navigate through and look for the file you want. Similarly, this kind of disorganization also hinders the performance of Mac’s built-in Finder.
However, there’s now a solution to such problems. Clone Files Checker! CFC is an efficient tool, which uses highly intelligent algorithms to detect numerous duplicate files within minutes.
You might mistake CFC with other ordinary duplicate finders that only compare files considering the filenames. Well, this is not the case here. Clone Files Checker for Mac smartly scans the content of each file and then detects duplicates.
Mentioned below are a few prominent features of CFC for Mac:
- Robust Search Engine
Unlike most apps of similar nature, CFC has a systematic algorithm that completes the whole procedure in a very short period of time. Due to the modern comparison techniques being used, the whole process is a swift one.
- Built-in Image Previewer
If you’re worried that you’ll have to open each and every image to see if the duplicates are detected correctly or not, let me tell you that you won’t have to face that here. CFC has a built-in image previewer where you can check a preview of images without having to open them separately.
- Exporting Results
Clone Files Checker allows its users to export results of the scanning into CSV (comma-separated files) as well. In case you need this data for evaluating it later, this feature will come in handy.
- Possible Batch Selections
CFC is designed to facilitate users in the best way possible. To ensure that users don’t have to spend a lot of time during the procedure, CFC allows batch selections as well. After going for the Select Duplicates option, you can easily select multiple files simultaneously as per the selection criteria you prefer.
- Quick-Fix Wizard
If you do not intend to review each detected duplicate file before removing it, you can opt for the Quick-Fix option. This is an ultra-fast way to perform the cleanup task automatically and potentially recover tons of storage space within seconds!
Thanks to user-friendliness, using Clone Files Checker on your Mac device is quite easy. There’s no rocket science in it but the output definitely is staggering.
