Here’s the best thing you can do: Download an app to visualize your disk space, find which files are eating up your drive, then work on deleting them. (If you’re not sure whether or not it’s okay to delete some unknown file, we’d recommend Googling it to see what it’s used for. Get a visual breakdown of your disk space in form of an interactive map, reveal the biggest space wasters, and remove them with a simple drag and drop. Or, to really be safe, only delete files you know you don’t need.) To manually clear cache files on Mac: Navigate to Go > Go To Folder. Click-hold Option and drag the Caches folder to your desktop as a backup in case something goes wrong. Select all the files in the Caches folder. Open the Apple menu, then select About This Mac. I tried out a bunch of options to get the job done - read on for my favorites. Click the Storage tab in the toolbar to see how much disk space you have available. (On OS X Mountain Lion or Mavericks, click the More info. Input may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. These local snapshots are stored on your Mac’s startup partition along with all your other files.We only include products that have been independently selected by Input's editorial team. Your Mac automatically creates them in the background, and the Time Machine icon on your menu bar won’t even say it’s doing anything as it does so. These snapshots are designed to help you recover deleted files or previous versions of files, even if your laptop is away from its Time Machine drive for a while. If you’re using a desktop Mac with Time Machine enabled, or if you’re using a Mac notebook with Time Machine disabled, your Mac won’t bother creating local snapshots. Second, you must have enabled Time Machine to back up to an external drive. First, you must be using a Mac notebook and not a Mac desktop PC. Local snapshots are only created if two things are true. RELATED: How to Back Up Your Mac and Restore Files With Time Machine You can’t normally see or access these backup files - use the commands below if you need to quickly remove them from your Mac’s internal storage. The “Backups” category here represents your local snapshots. To see how much space those local Time Machine backups are consuming, click the Apple icon on the menu bar, click About This Mac, and click the Storage heading.
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