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Find Your Lost Product Keys. The Best Tech Newsletter Anywhere Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles. How-To Geek is where you turn when you want experts to explain technology. Since we launched in , our articles have been read more than 1 billion times. You can freely move the contents of these files and folders about, though not necessarily their subfolders unless you created the folder :. If it doesn't then move it back.
Additionally, you can safely delete Log files, but not the folders that own them. There is a nightly script that runs to delete them in Mac OS X as. The latter function could.
Those log files can be deleted if you are running low on space. But they could make it hard to troubleshoot issues that happened when they were last modified. System Cache files should not be deleted unless your system is backed up, as they could impact the ability of programs to launch. If you find you must access any of the Mac OS X only folders while in 9 or running an application in Classic, return to X, and quit Classic and repair permissions links to Apple knowledgebase explaining how to repair permissions.
The translucent bar, known as the Dock, and the left Finder Window sidebar. That means do not assume when you drag to either location that a file is safely residing in some other folder, than the source folder you just dragged from. Unlike Windows, it is not! Next, sort your apps by size. To do this, click the Size column header.
One of the most useful features of Mac Washing Machine finds and deletes caches; these are folders that contain temporary files that certain apps write to help speed up performance. For example, your Web browser caches files it has viewed, so it may not need to re-download them when you visit a web page again. In the screenshot below, you can see that Mac Washing Machine can save more than 2 GB on my Mac, just by deleting unneeded caches.
To view this folder—it might be hidden on your Mac—choose the Go menu in the Finder, press the Option key, then choose Library. View this folder in List View, and then click the Size header to view the largest folder first—it will probably be the Application Support folder. The Application Support folder holds files that some apps need to run. For example, there is the Caches folder.
As I explained above, the Caches folder contains temporary files. You can delete this folder, but you should restart your Mac immediately after you do so, since some apps may think certain cache files are still present. The Containers folder contains many important files, but also some you may not need. BKAgentService folder contains the contents of your iBooks library.
This folder contains attachments that you have viewed in email messages, but that Mail neglects to delete. If you get a lot of emails with attachments, viewing those attachments places copies in this folder.
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