Under “Documents” tab you can see three options like large files, downloads and file browser. If you organized all working files under “Documents” folder, you can easily view the file size in one single place. Clicking on the “Review Files” will take you to sidebar items where you can see the size occupied by the files. Probably this is the most useful option though you need to manually look in to the size of the files.

Empty Trash AutomaticallyĮnable this option to automatically cleanup the deleted files in your trash bin every 30 days. Only the recent email attachments will be kept in the “Mail Downloads” folder thus allowing to have sufficient free space. Enabling this will help to delete all the watched medias and old email attachments from your Mac. This option is for those who watch movies and TV shows in Apple TV. Only those recently accessed files and optimized photos will remain on the Mac’s storage space thus allowing you to free up the space. When your Mac is running out of storage space, this option will automatically help to move files and photos to your iCloud drive.

Click on the “Store in iCloud…” button and enable this option. iCloud offers 5GB of free space which is not sufficient to use this option since your SSD drive should have 512GB space already. Store in iCloudīefore using this option ensure you know what is iCloud and purchased the required storage space. Cleanup Your Desktopĭeleting all the unnecessary files on your desktop is the first step to make your Mac clean and looks pretty.

Enable auto Trash cleanup with 30 days frequency.

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It will also allow your Mac to run faster without sluggishness. Therefore, it is important to keep your Mac’s disk space free, in order to easily access the files and documents you want. For example, storing huge number of high quality photos, videos, audios and downloading large disk image (.dmg) files will quickly eat up the disk space. But the storage space can quickly wiped of based on your usage over period of time.

This is a decent storage space for a solid state drive (SSD). When you look at the Mac models in Apple store, all types (MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air) are sold starting from 512GB storage.

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