Clean up your Mac without bothering yourself

Since Mac Computers are sophisticated in nature, every time you need to use any of its tools, make sure you are well aware of their features and functionality. During the input and output operations, Mac’s performance falls gradually, due to which this so-called excellent computer (i.e. Mac) falls sick and requires cleanup.

When it comes to cleaning the Mac, what are the different areas on Mac that you consider as dirty and want to clean them up? Do you clean Mac’s hard drive, minimize number of installed apps, remove email logs, and other temporary files? If not, you should be cleaning up all these spots on your Mac frequently, in order to make it run smoothly. Consider the following steps to clean drive and speed up Mac:

 

Mac Hard Drive

Hard drive is one of the major areas under suspect for affecting Mac’s performance, as every single file (i.e. System files and user data) is stored on it. The nature and amount of data stored on the hard drive collectively affect the performance of the computer. Therefore, make sure the memory occupied by data is less than 90 percent of the capacity of the hard drive. For example, if capacity of a Mac volume is 100GB, then data stored on it should not be more than 90GB.

 

Installed Apps

The boot volume on Mac is the primary volume, which contains operating system’s files along with the applications you install on it (i.e. the apps you install on your Mac consume space from the boot volume). System files consume definite amount of space while rest of the memory is utilized for installing apps. Therefore, more the number of installed apps, lesser will be the free space. Make sure you install an app only when it is required, and remove it when you are no longer going to use it.

 

Email Auto-downloads

Apple’s email facilitates quick view of the email attachment (if any). When you receive an email including a media file as an attachment, you can have a quick look at it by double-clicking it within the email. As you open its preview, it automatically downloads at a default location, i.e. youruserfolder/Library/Mail Downloads. Therefore, you must have a downloaded copy of all previewed media files you received via email. Go to this directory location and empty this folder, since every time you access those emails, these downloaded files start executing automatically.

 

Browser Reset

Apple computers have inbuilt Safari web browser that by default stores logs of all Internet activities, such as browsing history, cookies, username and password, cache, form text, and download history. All such information is stored in temporary files that reside on the hard drive. Every time you launch Safari browser, these log files become active and start executing automatically. Therefore, launch Safari, go to Safari menu, and click Reset Safari. Click the checkboxes in front of the items you want to reset, and then click Reset button.

Besides the spots on Mac you can clean up manually, several unreachable areas also need cleanup. In order to clean such areas, you need to use cleanup Mac software.