Does it make sense to pull 90% of my word documents OFF my (new) Macbook Air M4, since I have not used them for over 2 years? I am running Tahoe, and in the year ahead will be using WORD and Excel for small lists daily, and storing and tweaking and adding LOTSA photos.
THANKS FOR ANY SUGGESTIONS!
MacBook Air (M4, 2025)
It is really more a matter of how much free drive space you have. I believe it is still not good to fill a drive to capacity even though it might not suffer from severe slow-down the way old drives used to. Frankly though, I find that text files do not take up that much space unless you are writing novels on a weekly basis. If you are short on space I would look at other files first.
Peruse Free up storage space on Mac - Apple Support
Unless you’ve written the great American novel, your Word files aren’t taking up much space. My entire curriculum of STEM classes including Word & PowerPoint files (but excluding video files) takes up less than 3 GB. If you are running out of space and trying to free up some media files are the better candidate.
That's entirely up to you. They're probably not taking up much space when it gets right down to it. Only you can decide what's important and what you need to keep handy.
Should I remove old Word documents from my MacBook Air M4?
