You might be confronted
with unresponsiveness, spinning colored beach ball, and many other
similar slowdown issues on your Mac machine, even after you have a
good hardware configuration. Well, the issue might not be the
hardware, but probably the overfilled hard drive. The amount of data
stored on a hard drive is one of the factors affecting the overall
performance of a computer whether it is Windows or a Mac machine.
Actually, Mac OS X treats
whatever free space the hard drive has as Virtual Memory playing a
significant role in favour of its performance. Therefore, more the
amount of virtual memory on a Mac drive, better will be the
performance. You can check the complete data storage detail of the
drive.
- Go to Apple icon and select About This Mac
- Click More info button and then System Report button
- In the opening window, click Serial-ATA in the left pane
- Now, see the information i.e. Capacity and Available free space for every Mac volume.
Alternatively, you can
refer to Mac’s inbuilt disk management tool i.e. Disk Utility for
precise description, such as Capacity, Available and Used space, etc.
for each volume.
- Launch Disk Utility
- Click and note down these statistics for each volume shown below the source hard drive one by one.
Compute the percentage
virtual memory using the formula i.e. (free space/capacity)*100 for
each Mac volume. If the percentage virtual memory in any volume comes
out to be less than or equal to 10%, you need to do something to free
up the memory.
Creating Free Space on the Hard Drive
Freeing up the memory
does not direct the user to delete a definite amount of data from the
concerned volume, but shift to any other volume containing large
amount of free space. However, shifting some data to any external
data storage device, such as an external hard drive would be more
appropriate.
Go through each Mac
volume individually and prepare a note of the data in use, items
currently not in use or rarely used, and of course, the data never
used yet stored.
Keep only those items in
each volume, which are currently in use, frequently used, and the
least priority items rarely used yet essential. Keep a backup copy of
each document, file, and folder at any secure location.
Similarly, go through the
installed applications on your Mac machine and keep only those which
are currently in use and frequently used.
Tip: Keep at least
10% of the total capacity as free in each volume.
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