How to clean up hard drive

I'd like to cleanup my hard drive. I saw a post about disksweeper and was wondering if that's the best choice. I'm a novice Mac user. thanks, Lin

MacBook Air, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Dec 10, 2012 4:00 PM

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Dec 10, 2012 4:04 PM in response to lindafromnavarre

IMO... 3rd party Cleaning software is not necessary...

Mac OS X tends to look after itself...

To keep your Mac Happy... See Here...

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1147

http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintainingmacosx.html

Mac OS X: About background maintenance tasks

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Dec 10, 2012 4:03 PM in response to lindafromnavarre

So far I have found none of the supposed "cleanup" applications that are worth the money they charge.

I still use OmniDiskSweeper which tells me where the disk space is b eing used and then clean up manually.

Allan

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Dec 10, 2012 4:03 PM in response to lindafromnavarre

it's not necessarily "the best choice" as best is subjective and people have their own preferences. OmniDiskSweeper, Onyx and others http://guides.macrumors.com/Cleaning_Your_Mac's_Hard_Drive

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