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Clean Up Your Mac From Other Files

Vinit Kumar on January 02, 2017

Sometimes, your mac is filled up with files and you can't seem to understand what really is taking much space. Here is how you can find out. ...
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Gabriel Birke

Thank you for this gentle introduction, I hope more people will get comfortable with the shell.

But for cleanup tasks, I prefer to use the fantastic GUI utility called DaisyDisk (daisydiskapp.com).

If you want a free option you could use Disk Inventory X (derlien.com)

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Ezinwa Okpoechi

To make this even simpler, you can do du -h | awk '$1 ~ /[0-9]G/'. No separate files created, and much shorter and easier to understand.

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Vinit Kumar

Thanks. Much nicer.

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Ivan

this blog would solve your question drcleaner.com/mac-hard-disk-free/