Mac OS X: Clean up your hard drive - the best tips

In this practical tip, you will read tips on how to clean up the hard drive on your Mac.

Survey disk space in Mac Utility

1. From the Apple menu, select "About This Mac".
2. Click here for more information.
3. In the "Hard disks" tab you can see how much space audio, films, photos, apps, backups or other take up.

Clean up the hard drive with the Finder

1. Click the Finder icon.
2. In the search field, enter, for example, "film" or "picture", depending on the content of the hard disk check that takes up the most space on your hard disk.
3. After entering it in the search field, you will be suggested directly under "Types", eg "Image" or "JPEG image". Click image. Now you will be shown all the pictures on the hard disk.
4. You can use the "Change object orientation" icon to sort this list of images by "Size". This makes it easy to find large files.
5. You can delete the files found using cmd + backspace.

Mac tools for cleaning up your hard drive

In this section, we recommend three tools to clean up your hard drive on Mac OS X.

• SupaView shows the used memory of your hard disk graphically. With this program you can quickly locate large files.
• CCleaner analyzes your hard drive and removes useless and useless files. Even so, you can often free up some hard disk space.
• CleanMyMac cleans your hard drive quickly and reliably. The program also offers some interesting search filters.

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