Cleaner One
15
Time neededDeveloper
Trend Micro,
IncorporatedDifficultyHow often should
you clean?
If the Mac is running fine and you
have a lot of free disk space, then we
would leave it alone. When the disk
is full, daily cleaning may be essential
to maintain sufficient free space for
the Mac to work. Most people will
be somewhere between these two
extremes and an occasional clear out
every few months can be beneficial.Knowledge base
Clean up your Mac
T
he entry level MacBook Air and Pro, and the mini all come
with 128GB drives and it is easy to fill them. Even if you
don’t have the base models, many people struggle for
space and even 256GB drives are easily filled. What can you do?
Clean up the drive, remove unnecessary files, clear caches and
get rid of really big files that use too much space.
There are some features in macOS that help with these tasks,
but they are limited and not as effective or as easy to use as
Cleaner One. Install this free app from the Mac App Store and
it will use 27MB of disk space, but it can free up gigabytes of
storage. Don’t struggle with a nearly full drive, use Cleaner One.Discover how to remove duplicate files that are secretly
eating up your Mac’s hard drive spaceCleaner One is a good, free, app that can help you claw
back vital storage space on your Mac’s hard driveCreate disk maps
Find and delete big files
Select for deletion
No matter which method that is
used to find files and folders, each
item has a checkbox next to it. Use
it to select items to remove and free
up space. Clear it to keep an item.Build disk maps
Junk Files, Big Files and
Disk Maps are three ways
to find unnecessary,
temporary, big and
unwanted files on the
disk. When you need to
free up space, use one of
these methods.Show and keep
In this and other clean-up
methods, mouse over an
item and click the magnifying
glass to show it in Finder.
With Big Files, a padlock
also appears. Use it to lock
valuable files to keep.Use disk maps
Let the mouse hover over a
listed item to show it on the
disk map. Folders are green.
Double-click them in the list to
redraw the disk map showing
space usage for that folder.Cleaner One
15
TimeneededDeveloper
TrendMicro,
IncorporatedDifficultyHow often should
you clean?
If the Mac is running fine and you
have a lot of free disk space, then we
would leave it alone. When the disk
is full, daily cleaning may be essential
to maintain sufficient free space for
the Mac to work. Most people will
be somewhere between these two
extremes and an occasional clear out
every few months can be beneficial.Knowledge base
Clean up your Mac
T
he entry level MacBook Air and Pro, and the mini all come
with 128GB drives and it is easy to fill them. Even if you
don’t have the base models, many people struggle for
space and even 256GB drives are easily filled. What can you do?
Clean up the drive, remove unnecessary files, clear caches and
get rid of really big files that use too much space.
There are some features in macOS that help with these tasks,
but they are limited and not as effective or as easy to use as
Cleaner One. Install this free app from the Mac App Store and
it will use 27MB of disk space, but it can free up gigabytes of
storage. Don’t struggle with a nearly full drive, use Cleaner One.Discover how to remove duplicate files that are secretly
eating up your Mac’s hard drive space
Cleaner One is a good, free, app that can help you claw
back vital storage space on your Mac’s hard driveCreate disk maps
Find and delete big files
Select for deletion
No matter which method that is
used to find files and folders, each
item has a checkbox next to it. Use
it to select items to remove and free
up space. Clear it to keep an item.Build disk maps
Junk Files, Big Files and
Disk Maps are three ways
to find unnecessary,
temporary, big and
unwanted files on the
disk. When you need to
free up space, use one of
these methods.Show and keep
In this and other clean-up
methods, mouse over an
item and click the magnifying
glass to show it in Finder.
With Big Files, a padlock
also appears. Use it to lock
valuable files to keep.Use disk maps
Let the mouse hover over a
listed item to show it on the
disk map. Folders are green.
Double-click them in the list to
redraw the disk map showing
space usage for that folder.