How and Why to Clean Up MacBook Hard Drive

How can I clean up macbook drive to speed up its performance ? Is it necessary create free space in Macbook drive if it is going to full.

Usually we all save every photo, video , document on our MacBook and eventually, the Macbook drive gets almost full. The side effect could be a slow Macbook. If you are running MacBook with low disk space, it not only pulls down its performance, but also creates risk for your machine. So, it is suggested to clean up your Mac's hard drive and return some much needed space and speed.

How can I remove the useless stuffs from my drive?

1. It is recommended to save your personal documents to disc and label them for quick retrieval later.
2. The documents which you haven't accessed since a long time, are supposed to be unimportant data. Its the time to delete such data from your hard drive. There is no need to worry about such documents since you have already saved them to a disc.
   
3. Open your email client and remove those old emails which you don't need. If you must keep them, save them to a disc. Open your chat client and clear out any chat logs.
   
4. Go to those applications which are not used more then once or twice after you installed them on your MacBook. Please don't delete any application that came with your Mac OS.
   
5. Clean the unnecessary and unused icons from your desktop and try to keep it clean. It is important to speed up startup of your Mac.
   
6. Clean up all the cache and browsing history items from your browser. Its important to push up Safari and other browsers on your system.
   
7. Empty the trash bin as this is also a part of your main drive.
   

Please note that the above tasks can be done manually and using a software also. The Mac cleanup tools like Stellar Speed Up mac. What this application needs is just your command and it will do rest of the tasks. The user can either cleanup the entire drive or a selected volume in one go. Pic 1 shows the list of files this application can remove from your Macbook.

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For more details about Stellar SpeedUp Mac visit the official website.