Clean Drive For Mac

Here are some general tips to keep your Mac's hard drive trim and slim as possible

You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER!

With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.

Note: If your drive is an SSD, you won’t be able to click “Security Options” as this option will be grayed out. It’s because SSDs don’t have to go through this process due to the way it manages files. Wipe External Hard Drive on Mac via Terminal (Command Line) If for any reason Disk Utility fails to wipe your drive.

Today, we're showing you how to clean your Apple Computer to make it run faster and free up disk space. If your Mac is running slow, this video is for YOU!
The newer APFS is best for solid-state drives, and Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is best for older, mechanical hard drives. Scheme: Choose GUID Partition Map. Next, click Erase and after Disk Utility.

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If it does, it's time for some hard drive housecleaning.

Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.

Have you emptied your Mac's Trash icon in the Dock?

If you use iPhoto or Aperture, both have its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.

If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.

If you are an iMovie user, iMovie has its own individual Trash location that needs to be emptied, too!

If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!

Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.

Look through your other Mailboxes and other Mail categories to see If there is other mail you can archive and/or delete.

STAY AWAY FROM DELETING ANY FILES FROM OS X SYSTEM FOLDER!

Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like 'Read Me' type files.

Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.

Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.

To find other large files, download an app called Omni Disk Sweeper.

Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.

When you install and launch it, let it do its initial automatic tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the maintenance tabs that let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.

Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.

move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.

If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.

Moving iTunes library

Moving iPhoto library

Moving iMovie projects folder

Good Luck!

Easily drag-and-drop files directly to any drive, check disk stats and automatically clean hidden junk from external drives.

CleanMyDrive 2 is always at hand — just a lightweight interface that takes up little space and practically no system resources. It works for you around the clock so you have easy access to all your drives.

Is your camera’s SD card not writing as fast as it should? Your USB stick won’t connect to some devices? CleanMyDrive 2 works with SSD, external hard drives, SD cards, USB flash drives and pretty much anything that stores files.

Not only do you get to see how much space is taken up on each drive, but also what’s on them. CleanMyDrive 2 shows the storage bar for each of your external drives. Just like Mac’s native bar for the internal drive, you get to see types of files and how much they hog.

CleanMyDrive 2 cleans up files which are otherwise hard to get rid of. Such as service files created by macOS and Windows that corrupt your external drive’s compatibility with other devices. Most of them are hidden. Others are visible, but hard to delete. And all of them mean trouble.

With CleanMyDrive 2 you don’t have to rummage around in Finder — all of your drives are at hand in the menu bar. Drag and drop any file right into the app to copy it to the drive you want.

Why stand around waiting for each drive to eject when you just can hit the Eject All button? Or even faster — a keyboard shortcut. And, if you’ve accidentally closed your Mac with a USB stick plugged in, CleanMyDrive 2 ejects it automatically, keeping all your data intact.

Mac apps are meant to be fun, not just functional. Customize your disk icons in CleanMyDrive 2 to easily recognize every drive. Choose cool icons from our hand-crafted collection and make your drives look awesome.

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CleanMyMac is a great product. I've used it almost daily for years. There's an add-on called CleanMyDrive that's awesome too.

What an amazing app, this CleanMyDrive from MacPaw. It's totally free!

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We were fans of CleanMyDrive when it was initially released, because it made managing multiple external drives a lot easier. Now, with a recent update, the app’s even better.

CleanMyDrive is a fantastic utility to remove this kind of from your external hard drives, and now developer MacPaw has refined it even more to bring you CleanMyDrive 2, with new tools to help you keep all your connected drives clean and safe.

Featuring a completely redesigned user interface, CleanMyDrive 2 is back and better than ever at ejecting or cleaning hidden junk from external drives in a snap.

CleanMyDrive 2 has a completely redesigned user interface that follows the clean design of the last two editions of macOS, and the app is quite useful if you have a number of external drives attached to a Mac.

The new and much improved CleanMyDrive 2 app boasts a completely redesigned user interface that lets you check disk stats, drag-and-drop files directly to any drive, automatically clean disks after hitting the Eject button and more.

Your Mac creates a lot of garbage files in its daily operation. You don’t see them, but they’re there... The original CleanMyDrive cleaned up so you don’t have to, and the new version does that and more.

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With CleanMyDrive 2, cleaning hidden junk clogging up your drives is extremely easy and fun. Choose one manager for all your external and internal drives and make the storage-related chores a breeze.

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