20 Macworld • February 2022

MACOS TIPS & TRICKS

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t’s easy to end up with piles of

Word and iWork documents, PDFs,

downloaded photos and other

miscellaneous files strewn across

backup drives and multiple Macs.

Some of those items you may not have

fired up in years – until you remember

With files sometimes spread across computers, even with migrations

we can end up with far-flung documents. Glenn Fleishman reports

How to get control of files

on multiple Macs

that something you need was never

migrated to your current computer. In

the spirit of end-of-the-year cleaning,

you could consider consolidation

through synchronization: get all

the files you need either in a single

place that has a copy of everything,