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Q: What can I use to clean up my 2010 Mac Mini?
I would really appreciate any suggestions of how to clean Files / junk/ etc, from my 2010 Mac Mini. It runs very very slow. Thank you in advance.
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Posted on Sep 24, 2016 5:51 PM
by K Shaffer,Apple recommended
Desktops
The issue remains to be one of rationing available resources across
all demands on them, to try & make a balance; there is no need to
'clean' any thing in the macOS X... Just understand how it is, why
it works as it does, and what you can do to help it automatically
function as best as possible.
Use Activity Monitor on your Mac - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201464
Activity Monitor shows the processes that are running on your Mac,
so you can see how they affect your Mac's activity and performance.
You can then see how, for example, a large collection of video files
can affect the overall system when that leaves the rest of it with no
free or unused temporary swap file capacity for OS X automatic way
of using this part of the resources it manages.
To archive or store any excess on a partition or external storage drive
where the applications that may access them, can; but in the meantime
the whole system does not have to trip over their bulk, on internal HDD.
Performance. That is a loaded word in the world of small computing;
in an older Mac, less was automatic and you'd have to routinely do
tasks that helped the Mac work better. Not so much now. If there is
enough memory (RAM) & unused storage capacity for virtual memory
& swap files to temporarily store application files, it takes care of itself.
Avoid mackeeper, cleanmymac, and other tidy unnecessary moneymaker
utilities that can damage the system and break links to your saved content.
Be sure to have sufficient backups (external to your Mac) where you have
copies or duplicates of items you think are the most valuable; then also use
the Time Machine software that is inside the macOS, to backup. Additional
backups can include making disk images (via disk utility) or using Cloning
utilities such as ShirtPocket's SuperDuper, or Bombich' CarbonCopyCloner.
These can be boot-systems should the original internal hard drive fail, too.
These can be boot-systems should the original internal hard drive fail, too.
Three topics in article from TheSafeMac site can help...
•Tech Guides: Malware, Adware, and Performance:
•Tuning Mac OS X Performance - The X Lab
www.thexlab.com/faqs/performance.htmlPosted on Sep 24, 2016 9:09 PM