now there's a lot on a computer and all this takes up a lot of space some things
that we might be aware of but no longer need and something you might have no
idea about and in this video I'll show you how to locate and delete these files
to free up some space on your Mac let's get started now this process works on
any Mac whether it's a MacBook iMac ear Pro anything that's running Mac you can
use this video to help you free some space now the first few tips are pretty
basic but something you might miss the very first thing we're gonna look at is
our downloads folder and you can access your download folder right from here or
we can go into finder and from here downloads and here you'll have a list of
everything you've downloaded on your computer these can be pictures songs
films movies or anything you've downloaded ever from the web so I
recommend checking this list out and deleting anything you no longer need so
in this case I'm gonna delete all of these files that are old here now you
can also change the orientation of this and how information is being presented
to you so we can search by size by a kind application name date modified date
added and all of that so once you've got rid of every file from your downloads
folder is now in your trash folder and this is another place that we sometimes
miss out so anything that you delete doesn't really get deleted from your
computer it actually stays into your trash folder which is right over here
so let's go ahead open our trash folder and from here again you want to go
through everything that's in the Trash folder just to make sure you don't
delete anything by accident so once you've reviewed everything in the Trash
folder and you're sure you want it gone you can click on the empty sign right
here or you can double press on your trash folder and from here empty trash
confirm once again and that will empty your trash just like that now if you're
running on Mac High Sierra or the new software it actually gives you a little
more information about what's on your computer within the Apple software so we
can check that by going into the Apple logo and from here about this Mac from
your click on storage and this might take a little bit to calculate and I'll
tell you exactly what place is taking up how much storage so let's wait for that
to calculate and let's see the end results alright so once it's done this
calculations these are the results for me all right so the more storage is
being taken up by My Documents so these are all the files that are
my computer and that's taking up 64gb of storage the next thing right here is the
system storage and my system is eating up almost 60 GB of storage as well so
that's a lot of space for system so these are the things you physically
didn't download yourself these are the files and caches your system itself has
created on your computer and usually if it's anything more than 20 you should
just be look into clearing your system storage and I have a dedicated video on
how to do that which I'll link in the description box down below and should be
an attack right now the next thing that's taking up more storage is my
application so these are all the apps and software's I have loaded on my
computer and I'll show you how to review them and delete the ones you no longer
need and the next are the small things that I won't really worry about so let's
close out of this and let's go into our Applications folder so going to find her
and from here go into your Applications folder and use a list of all
applications that are currently on your computer now I don't recommend deleting
anything that's within the utilities folders these are applications that are
installed by Apple and they come with your computer has default and most of
these things you might need at one point or the other or the stuff that's being
used by the software so I recommend using or changing anything within the
utilities folder and just to show you guys an example I'm gonna go ahead and
delete this Omni disk sweeper and this is the application we'll be using next
to find hidden applications and hidden places that are eating up storage on a
computer so I'm gonna go ahead and delete this and reinstall it with you
guys so we are all on the same page here alright so this is the website where
we're gonna download the Omni disk sweeper I'll also have the link in the
description box down below so once you're here just click on the download
button and once the app is downloaded go ahead and launch it and let's go through
the installation process alright so once you see this page just drag it to the
Applications folder and we're pretty much done now I'm gonna go into my
Applications folder and from here let's try to find the Omni district persist
right here and I'm gonna go ahead and open it click open and something like
this should pop up so I'm gonna close out of all the other windows because we
no longer need them so this is Omni disk sweeper and from here we're going to
select into our disk so Macintosh HD and double-click on that and that will
launch us into second page like this now we no longer
need this page but I still have it opened but this is where we're gonna dig
into files we no longer need so has you see slowly analyzing all the files and
the numbers will keep changing until it's done is analyzing process and once
it's completely done we're gonna go ahead and find applications we want to
delete all right so it looks like it's done it's analyzing and from here let's
go into applications first of all and here you can see exactly what
application is taking how much space and usually if application is taking up
anything more than 10 12 GB you might want to look into the application and
you might see a cache folder that is filled so if you see the cache folder
you can select the cache folder and just hit trash and it will delete the cache
folder just make sure you're a little more careful when using this software
because you can delete files you don't want to but anyways let's start with
users and from here I see movies is taking up 64 GB of storage on my
computer so this is the file right here which is taking off 53 GB of storage on
my computer now if I want I can just select on the file or I can just double
click and I'll take me to the location where the file is located and now this
file is a movie project from my Final Cut Pro so if you have ever used an
editing software like Final Cut or even I movies it does take up a lot of space
on your computer and you can delete those files once you're done by going
into your finder and from here movies and you'll see the applications right
here or in some cases if you make the movie file on your desktop or somewhere
else it'll be located right over there so you
can just delete the file right from here if you don't want to go into the Omni
des Sweeper and leave it that way so I'm gonna go ahead the leader from here put
it into my trash and let's see what else I have on my computer now just like that
I went to my library and here's a cache folder and from here here's Adobe and
here's Lightroom so these are all the cache files by Adobe Lightroom that I
can safely delete without harming my computer and these are files that are no
longer need so I'm gonna go ahead and I could just hit delete or I can just
press Delete right here and I will delete that file for me so just like
that go through everything and delete anything you might need to or you might
have to just be a little more safe I don't recommend going into the system
files and deleting anything from there or into privacy or anything down there
so just focus on the user application files
be library or just basic stuff don't go into things you don't know and don't
delete anything you have no idea about alright guys so once you're done
reviewing everything from Omni disks we permission delete anything from your
trash folder once again for the very last time and by this time you should
have freed up a lot of space from your computer if you have any questions or
concerns you can let me know in the comment section down below I'll try to
answer as many as I can and if this video helps you all let me know by
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