how to clean unnecessary files mavericks
My memory on my mac looks very low...how do I clean out all unnecessary files?
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
I think you mean "storage", not "memory." The latter refers to volatile internal memory. The former means drive space.
How to Free Up Space on The Hard Drive
- You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
- Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
- Also, see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
- See Where did my Disk Space go?.
- Be sure to Empty the Trash to recover the space.
- Replace the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.