When your Mac boots sluggishly
and you face spinning colored beach ball every time when you run an application
or open a file, all you need to do is clean up your Mac. Do you know why you
face such annoying issues on your Mac? Well, this is all due to accumulation of
thousands of temporary files and iChat logs, overfilled Mac volumes, too many
installed or running applications, and not always but rarely, corruption of
Mac’s drive. In addition to the causes of generation of system’s waste, perhaps
you are not aware of the causes of corruption of Mac’s drive too. Mac users ask
is it mandatory to clean my Mac; however, they need to clean up Mac not
only to make it boot faster, but to maintain its performance level as well.
In this regard, before they take
any step forward to remove such clutter, it is recommended to make out what the
causes of generation of system’s waste are. Following are the major causes of
generation of such clutter:
Execution of System/User Programs
Mac has thousands of system files
executing every time as long as it is running. During execution of system files
as well as user applications, hundreds of temporary files are generated holding
intermediate data. These files are termed as system’s waste that keeps system’s
resources (RAM & Processor) busy in repeated execution of their own. When
such files are accumulated in large number, Mac boots sluggishly, applications
take long time to run, and many other symptoms of performance degradation are
noted.
Accumulation of iChat Logs
iChat, the Mac inbuilt online
chatting application, stores your chats as a log file that resides on your Mac.
For every chat session, it creates a new file to store all messages, which not
only includes text messages, but media files that you sent and received as
well. Based on for how long you have been chatting and the sizes of the media
exchanged files, the overall size of the chat logs folder can be in GBs.
Hard Drive’s Status
As Mac provides massive amount of
storage space on its hard drive, users store data in equal proportion. However,
they forget the fact that more the amount of data stored on a hard drive, the
poorer is its performance. Ideally, the storage limit for every drive is up to
90 % of its storage capacity. A drive filled more than 90 % is called as
overfilled, and it may crash anytime.
Installed Applications on Mac
The boot volume on your Mac
stores system files as well as the installed applications. Since the space
consumed by system files is fixed, the overall size of this volume is based on
the number of application you install on it. Besides, every system update
consumes disk space equal to its own size when you install any. Due to these
applications and updates, boot volume on your Mac may get overfilled.
Once you know the causes of
decreased Mac’s performance, resolve them ASAP. Following are the steps to
remove such clutters on your Mac:
Clean up Temporary files
Since temporary files produced
during the execution of system files and user applications keep system’s
resources busy, you need to clean up these files in order to achieve faster Mac
startup and execution of user applications.
Clean up iChat Logs
Log files stored by iChat
application on Mac are useless and you need to remove them. Every time you open
iChat application, these chat log files start executing just as temporary
system files. Go to iChat application, browse chatting folder, and then remove
these logs.
Clean up Mac Drive
Go through every Mac volume and
move all unused data to an external drive. Likewise, remove all unwanted data.
Remember that more the amount of free space available on a disk (or volume),
the better is its performance. Therefore, create at least 10 % free space on
every disk.
Uninstall Useless Apps
Go to the /Application
folder on your Mac and uninstall all useless apps. Install an app only when it
is required and uninstall it when you are no longer going to use it.
For quick and better results, you
can use a professional Mac cleanup application to speed up Mac performance.
