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To check storage on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.9 Mavericks, the procedure is almost exactly the same as above with one small change: Click on the Apple logo in the top left of the screen and click About This Mac. Spotlight is a great tool for finding documents, music, and other files on your Mac, but it won't search for certain kinds of files. If you need to locate a specific hidden, packaged, or system.
Reader Daniella tried to free up storage on her Mac after finding she only had 16GB available: I decided to delete a lot of files in my MacBook Pro. I also emptied my Trash and restarted my laptop. However, when I checked my storage after deleting files, I saw that it didn’t increase my storage but it lessened to 14.87GB.
How is that possible? What happened? This is a multifaceted problem which I’ve written about in bits and pieces before. It could be a Spotlight indexing error. Spotlight produces the information that’s used in the > About This Mac > Storage display. Restarting a Mac should clear temporary caches that can grow during a continuous session (between restarts/shut downs). However, it’s possible that due to applications used and available memory, OS X or macOS will create larger caches at startup time to handle swapping active program memory to and from disk.
Now as to how to free up storage, if you’re running Sierra, it includes extensive help in optimizing storage, deleted unneeded files, and shifting data to iCloud. Whether in Sierra or earlier versions, you can create a Spotlight search (and store as a smart folder) that helps you figure out your largest files, and then decide whether you need to delete them. IDG A smart folder set to find things larger than 1GB offers a good place to start in freeing up storage space. Using, create a Spotlight search in the finder for files above some arbitrary size—I’d recommend starting with 1GB. Using this as a guide, you might find surprising things.
For example, I have uncompressed audio files from podcasts I recorded years ago where I no longer need the original. I also have various over-the-air recorded TV programs that I’ve watched or have decided I’ll never watch that are chewing up gigabytes. Another option is to find a disk-cleaner app that isn’t horrible. Many packages, some with unnecessary monthly charges, perform badly and some even delete files without your permission. Macworld, and found it a good solution. It’s, but also part of the, which can be purchased a month at a time.
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By • 12:00 pm, April 7, 2014 • I’m kind of a stickler for a clean hard drive, especially since I started using Macbook Airs a few years back, what with their tiny little SSD units. I’ve moved most of my music to the Cloud and my, but there’s still a ton of cruft that ends up on my system. So, once a month or so, I sort my Movies, Applications, and Downloads folders by size, and delete the biggest things I don’t need anymore. Or I move them to an external hard drive for access later. What I’ve never done before is use Spotlight to find these files easily across all my folders. It’s kind of ingenious, really, so hats off to over at CNET, who pointed this out.
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Open a Finder window and hit Command-F on your keyboard to bring up the window-based Spotlight function. Now, click on the drop-down menu, where it says Kind and choose Other.