How To Clean Up Imac

The Mac Finder treats any folder or file on your desktop as if it was a window. This is not a problem when there are only a few items on the desktop, but when they start to accumulate, Finder will slow down considerably. A quick and easy way to begin cleaning up your Mac is to take the icons spread out over your desktop and organize them into. How to clean up system storage on Mac with CleanMyMac X: Download CleanMyMac X for free here. Run the app and go to System Junk.

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Here are some general tips to keep your Mac's hard drive trim and slim as possible

You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER!

With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.

If it does, it's time for some hard drive housecleaning.

Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.

Have you emptied your Mac's Trash icon in the Dock?

If you use iPhoto or Aperture, both have its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.

If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.

If you are an iMovie user, iMovie has its own individual Trash location that needs to be emptied, too!

If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!

Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.

Look through your other Mailboxes and other Mail categories to see If there is other mail you can archive and/or delete.

STAY AWAY FROM DELETING ANY FILES FROM OS X SYSTEM FOLDER!

Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like 'Read Me' type files.

Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.

Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.

To find other large files, download an app called Omni Disk Sweeper.

Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.

When you install and launch it, let it do its initial automatic tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the maintenance tabs that let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.

How can i get microsoft office 2016 for free. Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.

move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.

If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.

Moving iTunes library

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Moving iPhoto library

Moving iMovie projects folder

Good Luck!

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If you're willing to dig into your iMac's data a little, there's no reason to buy additional software to help you clean up your hard drive. All you really need is the willpower to announce, 'I simply don't need this particular item any longer.' (Sometimes, that's tougher than it may seem.)

Unnecessary files and unneeded folders

Consider all the stuff that you probably don't really need:

• Game demos and shareware that you no longer play (or even remember)
• Movie trailers and other QuickTime video files that have long since passed into obscurity
• Temporary files that you created and promptly forgot
• Log files that chronicle application installations and errors
• GarageBand loops and iMovie video clips you'll never use
• StuffIt and Zip archives that you downloaded and no longer covet
• iTunes music, video, and movies that no longer appeal

How hard is it to clean this stuff off your drive? Easier than you might think!

• You can quickly delete files.
• You can remove items from your iTunes Library (especially movies, which take up several gigabytes of space each). If you've purchased an item from the iTunes Store, don't forget that you can download that item again in the future for free — perhaps when you've added an external drive to hold some of your stuff.
• You can move seldom-used files and folders to external storage (such as a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or a DVD).
• You can uninstall applications purchased from the App Store using Launchpad. From the Launchpad display, click and hold down the icon until it wiggles. If an X button appears on the icon, you can click the X to remove the application from your iMac. Again, these applications can be reinstalled at any time.
• You can get rid of most of the space taken by any application (often the whole application) by deleting its application folder that was created during the installation process.

Always check the application's README file and documentation for any special instructions before you manually delete any application's folder! If you created any documents in that folder that you want to keep, don't forget to move them before you trash the folder and its contents. In fact, some applications may come with their own uninstall utility, so checking the README file and documentation may save you unnecessary steps.

How To Clean Up Imac Hard Drive

Removing an application or file from your hard drive usually takes two simple steps:

• Game demos and shareware that you no longer play (or even remember)
• Movie trailers and other QuickTime video files that have long since passed into obscurity
• Temporary files that you created and promptly forgot
• Log files that chronicle application installations and errors
• GarageBand loops and iMovie video clips you'll never use
• StuffIt and Zip archives that you downloaded and no longer covet
• iTunes music, video, and movies that no longer appeal

How hard is it to clean this stuff off your drive? Easier than you might think!

• You can quickly delete files.
• You can remove items from your iTunes Library (especially movies, which take up several gigabytes of space each). If you've purchased an item from the iTunes Store, don't forget that you can download that item again in the future for free — perhaps when you've added an external drive to hold some of your stuff.
• You can move seldom-used files and folders to external storage (such as a USB flash drive, an external hard drive, or a DVD).
• You can uninstall applications purchased from the App Store using Launchpad. From the Launchpad display, click and hold down the icon until it wiggles. If an X button appears on the icon, you can click the X to remove the application from your iMac. Again, these applications can be reinstalled at any time.
• You can get rid of most of the space taken by any application (often the whole application) by deleting its application folder that was created during the installation process.

Always check the application's README file and documentation for any special instructions before you manually delete any application's folder! If you created any documents in that folder that you want to keep, don't forget to move them before you trash the folder and its contents. In fact, some applications may come with their own uninstall utility, so checking the README file and documentation may save you unnecessary steps.

How To Clean Up Imac Hard Drive

Removing an application or file from your hard drive usually takes two simple steps:

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1. Display the file or application folder in a Finder window.
2. Delete the file or folder with one of these steps:

• Drag the icon to the Trash.
• Select the icon and press ⌘+Delete.
• Right-click the icon and choose Move to Trash from the contextual menu.
• Select the icon and click the Delete button on the Finder toolbar (if you added one).

Truly, no big whoop.

Unlike programs in the Windows world, most OS X applications don't need a separate, silly uninstall program (although some larger Mac applications include one for convenience).

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Don't forget to actually empty the Trash, or you'll wonder why you aren't regaining any hard drive space. (El Capitan works hard to store the contents of the Trash until you manually delete it, just in case you want to undelete something.) To get rid of that stuff permanently and reclaim the space, do the following:

1. Click the Trash icon on the Dock and hold down the button — or right-click — until the pop-up menu appears.
2. Choose Empty Trash.

Associated files in other folders

Some applications install files in different locations across your hard drive. (Applications in this category include the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe Creative Suite and Creative Cloud applications like Adobe Photoshop.) How can you clear out these orphan files after you delete the application folder?

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The process is a little more involved than deleting a single folder, but it's still no big whoop. Here's the procedure:

1. Click the Search text box in a Finder window.
2. Type the name of the application in the Search text box. If you want to remove Toast Titanium, you search for every file with the word Toast in its name; therefore, you find both the application and its main folder. This trick displays files created in other folders that include your search word in their names, such as project files, PDF files, and the font files that appear in the system Fonts folder.