When purchasing a Mac, the expensive increase in the cost of self-contained storage space is often a painful choice for many buyers. Therefore, many users prefer to choose a larger running memory instead of storage when they have a limited budget. space.
This also makes the macOS storage space stretched a headache for many Mac users: after all, insufficient memory can also be alleviated by “killing the background”, and the storage space is frequently in a hurry, and it is often impossible to start.
Unlike Windows PCs, most of the MacBook series, the carrier of macOS, has evolved into a design that directly solders memory particles on the motherboard, and even the traditional desktop product lines such as Mac mini and iMac have updated the M1 series processors. The same is true. Therefore, when macOS users are in a hurry for storage space, there is not even an option to “expand the C drive”.
The reason for the lack of storage space is partly because cross-device synchronization services such as iCloud / iTunes often leave a large amount of accumulated data, and partly because macOS itself has been recording various applications from the moment you turn it on. cache data.
This is also one of the reasons why when you open the storage space in “About This Mac” after using your Mac for a long time, the “System Data” category often appears in the macOS storage space, which often occupies hundreds of GB of storage space.
If you are often troubled by the storage space problem of macOS, you can first try several practical solutions listed in this article: including the disk management that comes with macOS, and four practical disk cleaning tools.
macOS comes with tools
In macOS, click the resident Apple Logo in the upper left corner of the screen, and select “About This Mac” – “Storage Space”. Here you can visually see the current disk usage of your Mac device.
If you want to clean up the disk, click the “Manage” button, you can jump to, here will show various disk cleanup solutions recommended by the macOS system: including storing files in iCloud Drive (provided of course that your iCloud Drive enough space), automatically delete files in the Trash, and manually organize large files in various common folders.
Although some of these cleaning options do not seem so grounded to domestic users (such as Apple TV’s cache cleaning), relatively speaking, the risk of cleaning files is not high (because there is no permission to delete cache files). It is also relatively perfect. Novice users can follow the storage space optimization guide and sort out the occupied storage space step by step.
But if you have tried the cleaning tool that comes with the system and still find that your immediate needs have not been resolved, don’t worry: there are always one of the following third-party disk management tools that is suitable for you.
lemon cleanup
Although it is mentioned that Tencent is an app, many readers now think of the green icon “small and beautiful”, but Tencent, as the largest Internet company in China, still has some real “small and beautiful” in the literal sense. The tool appears; the macOS system cleaning tool “Lemon Cleaner” to be introduced here is a typical example of the latter.
In addition to the simple UI design, no ads and complicated setting options, Lemon Cleaner also has built-in daily practical functions such as similar photo cleaning, duplicate file cleaning, etc. It is aimed at WeChat, QQ chat pictures and videos that are more used by domestic users. Cleaned up, and added targeted optimization, which is quite friendly to novice users.
It should be noted that, due to Apple’s review of the applications listed on the App Store, the Lite version of Lemon Cleanup on the App Store is much less than the full version downloaded directly from the official website. The function of calling macOS system permissions, but at the same time Key cleaning features such as junk/large file cleaning and duplicate content checking are also retained.
Cleaner One Pro
Cleaner One Pro is a macOS disk cleanup tool developed by Trend Micro (they also developed the equally well-known macOS cleanup tool Dr.Cleaner before), and its main function is also a one-stop macOS disk cleanup. Through the built-in intelligent scanning, it can quickly retrieve all kinds of junk and duplicate files in the current disk.
In addition, Cleaner One Pro’s disk analysis function is also one of the visualization tools for users to more accurately grasp the status of Mac disks: after selecting a folder to scan, Cleaner One Pro can expand the disk occupancy structure in a pie chart. . It is convenient for users to do further processing according to the usage status of the disk.
Although it is a tool with a built-in paid unlock function, the main basic functions are still open to all users for free: including the actual functions of the above-mentioned “log cache cleaning” and “disk analysis” The most frequently used, and these two features are completely free.
OminDiskSweeper
OminDiskSweeper is a completely free disk management tool launched by OminGroup. It can’t directly help you find and delete junk files, but it can mark each folder size data in the storage space with different styles of colors on the left side of the folder to help you quickly identify which files are occupying you. hard disk space.
There is also a button to delete files directly in the lower left corner of OminDiskSweeper that is determined to be no longer needed. However, it should be noted that this is only to move the corresponding junk files to the “Trash” of the macOS system. If you want to completely delete unnecessary files, you need to set up regular or manual cleaning of the Trash to completely remove them.
dupeGuru
dupeGurn is a macOS duplicate file detection tool with an installation package size of only 13m. Its UI interface is also called “simple”, but fortunately, the function itself is still very powerful. It can be used to check the folder on the Mac disk. Duplicate files and directly use fuzzy matching algorithm to match duplicate music/picture and other file formats according to relevance.
After detecting duplicate files, you can also directly click the corresponding file in dupeGurn to jump to the corresponding folder of Funda. Directly because dupeGuru uses the open-source duplicate file detection algorithm, it also has corresponding Windows and Linux systems. Version, cross-platform versatility is also very strong. The user experience is basically the same as the macOS version, and will not be described in detail here.
Epilogue
In general, the above-mentioned disk cleaning/management tools have accumulated enough reputation after the improvement in the past few years, and they are all tools that have a relatively low threshold for getting started and can quickly clear disk space.
However, for professional users who often use tools such as Adobe Family Bucket or MATLAB, directly “operating” the accumulated cache files may lead to unpredictable consequences. Therefore, “restarting the Dafa” is still quite effective: Generally, macOS devices are fully restored for at least a week. The reason for restarting the system, the macOS system can automatically release these data cache files.
If you really cannot restart your Mac for a long time due to work or other reasons, you can also manually quit Chrome, Photoshop and other applications that generate a large number of cache files, or you can release some cached data.
If you have more detailed requirements for data cleaning, there are also established macOS cleaning tools such as CleanMyMac and MacBooster, which have good reputation but need to be paid for. The built-in functions are more comprehensive. If you are interested in them, we will release more details later. macOS Professional Disk Cleanup experience.
Finally, if you don’t want to spend time searching one by one, we have also organized the installation packages of all the cleaning tools mentioned in this article for you; follow the WeChat public account of “Geek Choice” and reply to the keyword “macOS”, then you can Direct access to the installation package files for all the macOS cleaning tools in this article.
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