When your Mac runs out of storage space, it pops up a complementary error message:
Your disk is almost full. Save space by optimizing storage.
This error is self-explanatory. While some people tend to ignore it, it is not recommended to do so. This is because macOS and any apps installed on it need a certain amount of free space to function correctly. Due to the unavailability of free space, Mac’s core features may get interrupted and you might face major system issues such as Mac crashes, errors, system freezes, unresponsive dialogs, and even worse, serious data loss.
This article contains several methods that can show you the way on resolving this problem.
The Trash is a special container in the Mac operating system that contains all files deleted by users. When you drag a file to the Trash, it is just a single step away from permanent deletion.
If you are not using certain applications, it’s best to remove them. This will free up the SSD for newer files that will be of value to you.
If you are that kind of a person who can never remember the exact location where they downloaded that particular file of the Internet, you must surely have already been hit by the duplication of files.
A disorganized file library can be a total mess to handle for an average Mac user. While experimenting with new things, you might have forgotten to delete the stuff that you actually don’t need. Chances are that these files are scattered across different folders, subfolders of your SSD, making it difficult and tedious to search for genuine files.
Worry not, there is still a way to handle this situation. A single duplicate search using Clone Files Checker is enough to identify and purge an unlimited number of duplicate files.
The best aspect of CFC for Mac is that it simply does not take into account the file name while looking for duplicates. It directly scans the content of the files to determine if they are duplicates or not.
Some key features and benefits of using Clone Files Checker are given below:
When you use a cloud sync application such as Google Drive, or Dropbox, they might well download all your cloud data to the local storage.
Needless to mention, this eats up significant space and you end up facing the low storage problem. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you blindly uninstall these apps. These apps are pretty much useful for both individuals and businesses. They run in the background (even offline) and consistently keep a log of all changes that you make to your original documents and backup them online.
The solution is to properly configure these apps so they won’t sync the existing large online files onto your SSD. You can do so by switching over to the selective sync mode instead of full sync.
The Mac operating system keeps track of all the events, exceptions and errors that appear from time to time. These log files contain detailed information about the activities, process details and other information that may be helpful to diagnose major system problems. However, if your MacBook is running normal, you may consider deleting your log files. This will free up some storage space.
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