How to Free Up Storage Space on Your Mac in 20 Seconds

why is my hard drive full why is storage such a mystery on the mac this video is for you if you just want to see the megabytes and gigabytes and you want to delete some stuff i'm just going to assume that you've made a time machine backup i have a video about that check it out just click on the apple menu in the top left and then go about this mac then go into storage and then manage dot dot dot and then on the left click on documents and on the right here click on file browser now this shows you the contents of your home folder this is where ninety five percent of your storage troubles will be the only folder that's not showing here is the library which contains things like your email database your caches your log files things like that pro tip on the keyboard hold down command and shift and press period and that will show invisible folders now you can see what's in the library if you click on a folder it shows you the contents of it and you can click on something and then move to trash once it's in the trash just click the trash and empty the trash to free up the space now if you're not sure if it's safe to delete something just take a screenshot and email it to me it's solutions macinhome.com boom storage epiphany if you found this helpful and you want some private mac coaching with me or someone from my team just head to macinhome.com booking we work with people all over the world we'll help you with whatever is on your mac problems list and you will never feel judged or shamed for whatever mess you are in i'm just going to assume that you have a time machine backup in case you make booboo

Channel: Lucas Roberts, Macinhome CEO

Views: 24,389

Keywords: macinhome, free up storage on mac, free up space on mac, how to free up space on a mac, free up space mac, mac hard drive full, mac os, what's taking up space on my mac

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Length: 1min 53sec (113 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 12 2022