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Safely clearing drive space in macOS

Safely clearing drive space in macOS

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Safely clearing drive space in macOS

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- [Instructor] In this week's Monday Productivity Pointers, I wanna talk about what you can do to free up storage space on a MAC when your hard drive is close to getting full. Specifically, if you're using macOS High Sierra or newer. The obvious solution if you're running out of storage space is that you should delete some files. Naturally, there are important files and documents that you don't want to delete. But chances are, there's probably something taking up space on your storage drive that you don't need. Let's see how we can identify stuff like that. We'll start by going into the System menu. That's this menu in the top left with the little Apple icon. And that menu will go to About This Mac, then click on Storage, and then there's a button here to Manage storage. So this tool starts with some recommended techniques for clearing up space on your drive. The first option here, storing files in the cloud, is something you should be very careful with. If you use iCloud, the macOS…

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