Just as you regularly
take out the trash cleaning up your home, Mac machine also requires to clean Mac apps in order to keep it healthy. When a file or a program
is executed in RAM, so many temporary files storing intermediate
results in binary form are generated, which are referred to as system
waste. These system wastes (i.e. temporary, cookies, cache, and
several other types of unwanted files), are stored in different
corners of the Mac machine, which not only eat up RAM, but even
consume disk space. When these files are accumulated in huge amount,
you experience performance issues, such as slow data response,
spinning beach ball, sluggish startup, etc. Scan entire hard drive
and delete Mac files that are unnecessarily eating up system
resources and disk space. Before taking any cleanup action, you need
to be familiar with these files, and how they are produced.
How such unnecessary files are produced
- During program execution and several input/output operations, computers generate intermediate files, which are useless after completion of the processes. These files contain binary data that self-allocates system resources and keep them busy unnecessarily.
- Cookies are temporary Internet files that automatically download on a computer during online activities. These files contain sensitive information (in binary form) related to the online transactions, such as Internet banking, e-signature, etc. When you double-click an email attachment (i.e. images, text files, etc.) for quick view, they actually download on your Mac as temporary files.
In spite of these, you
may have unused installed applications, large data files, and
duplicate files stored on your Mac, which you should delete (if
useless) or move to an external drive and free up the disk space.
Cleaning all unnecessary files
Remove all such
unnecessary files from different corners (such as Documents folder,
Pictures, default Email Downloads location) of your Mac machine and
get its performance enhanced.
- Removing Documents: The user’s profile directory on Mac OS X has some default directories that store the documents you create, Internet downloads (i.e. images, audio and video files), etc. Open Finder, select user’s directory, and open Documents. Remove all unnecessary items right now.
- Cleaning Pictures: Similarly, in Finder, examine Pictures folder in user’s profile directory. If you connect iPod, Digital Camera, or any other device that synchronizes with Mac, peek inside its directory and clean up all unneeded pictures immediately.
- Removing email downloads: When you configure Apple’s mail, it creates a directory, i.e. “youruserfolder/Library/Mail Downloads” that contains automatically downloaded email attachments. Depending on the size of every attachment, the size of this directory could be large. Examine every single file carefully, and then remove it. For quick and better results, use a good clean up software to scan the entire hard drive at once and clean Mac files, which are unnecessary.
In spite of these, there
could be several other unknown and unreachable locations on Mac
storing huge amount of system waste. You can search for duplicate
files in Mac’s Finder. Type asterisk (*) in search box and wait
until the search is finished. Now, you can see similar files are
shown together. However, before you delete any of those, reveal them
in Finder in order to make sure they are copy of each other. For
quick and better results, you can use a cleanup software for Mac.
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