How to free up MacOS hard drive storage space?

For the year 2001 è nato MacOS, belonging to Apple Computer Inc. This operating system has several versions. However, it has undergone changes over time.

An operating system is what allows it to perform activity on computers. MacOS is installed on all computers of the Apple company. This means that both the software and the hardware are well compatible.

Advantages of owning a Mac computer

• THE installation of programs is done in a simple way, as well as their uninstallation.
• Its software, already pre-installed by the manufacturer, does not slow down the system by rapidly processing the information.
• In addition, the Apple company has a very good customer care, warranty and shops to bring the equipment to be repaired.
• Their equipment is of high quality with the highest customer satisfaction rates on the market.

Free up hard drive storage space automatically or manually

• MacOS Sierra or later computer has the optimized storage functions and can free automatically it hard drive space.
• Another way is manually, without having to use the tools of MacOS Sierra or later.

Automatically frees up space:

• The first thing is to keep the Safari browser up to date. And search duplicates or copies of downloads.
• Also remove any executable installers you used.
• Delete dictionaries, languages ​​or old sources, if you don't use them.
• Likewise, the clearing of memory or caching, including cookies and all unnecessary data, including all pop-up advertising.

Free space manually:

• Delete movies, music or TV shows, as they take up a lot of space on your computer.
• The Downloads folder can guide you to see which files are no longer needed, and you can move them to the Trash, which needs to be emptied later.
• You can also transfer files to storage devices such as CD, DVD, Blue Ray, Pendrive or external hard drive, where they can be saved without problems.
• Delete also be it unwanted emails than the ones you don't need and, later, delete again these items that you have deleted from the inbox.
• Finally, compress and file.

Free up hard drive storage space via iCloud

This is another way to free up stored space on your hard drive as well save it to the cloud via iCloud for MacOS, a service with multiple advantages. In this way, when you need them, you can save photos, videos, files in general that you no longer use and which have a very large size.

• It is important to clarify that depending on of the storage plan you have, that will be the available space and if you exceed the 5GB limit, you can buy more space to free up your computer.
• The first thing to do is find out what storage space do we have a available on our Mac.
• To do this, click on "Storage", then on "Manage" and then on "Storage management" ; The latter features some recommendations such as: Store in iCloud, Optimize Storage Space, Automatically Empty Trash and Reduce Clutter.

Finally, we have seen that freeing up space on your macOS hard drive does can do in several ways, free because they are configurations that the system has, or with iCloud paid plans that offer up to 2 TB.

It is also important to free up these spaces because in this way the hard drive is kept only with what it has to use on a daily basis. Preventing it from being slowed down from information overload.