Clean up Mac’s Drive to Experience Actual Mac Performance

Just like every other computer, Mac machines also come across performance issues after running incessantly for a long time. Even more, if you an Internet addict, several junk files, corrupt files, system binaries, cookies, cache, and other temporary files must be stored in different corners of your Mac machine. These unwanted files eat up essential system resources (i.e. Processor and RAM), thereby minimizing its overall performance. Therefore, you need to walk through entire hard drive in order to clean up Mac machine. Besides some known system areas, you need to visit all portions of your drive for a manual cleanup. There must be several unknown regions of the Mac machine storing huge amount of system waste. How can you clean such unknown areas? Well, you can clean such unvisited areas with advanced cleanup software for Mac. For the time being, let us enlighten those system areas, which a user can clean up manually:

Clean Up Mac Volumes

The performance of every computer (whether Mac or Windows) relies on a slew of factors, including the amount of data stored on different volumes of the hard drive. Make sure at least 10 percent of the size of each partition is available as free. If not, then make a note of the data in use, frequently used, rarely used, and never used. Keep only the data that is in use and frequently used, and move rest of the data to any other data storage media, thereby freeing up the memory. Moreover, install required application only.

Delete Chat Logs

iChat messenger in Mac OS X creates a separate log file for saving every chat by default in a folder named as ‘iChat’ in Documents folder. However, you can manually choose a different location to save these logs. If you have been chatting for a long time and sending/receiving media files (i.e. images, audio and video clips etc.), imagine size of the iChat folder. Remove these logs periodically to save not even the memory, but also system resources.

Remove Cookies and Cache

Cookies and Cache are temporary files carrying the intermediate data of the online transactions downloaded automatically on your Mac machine whenever you surf the Internet. These files self-allocate memory and eat up RAM and Processor because of which you face spinning beach ball every time you start a new process. Sometimes, the situation becomes critical and you have to force shutdown the Mac machine. Remove such files frequently to keep your Mac performance high.

Email Auto-Downloads

Email attachments automatically download on your Mac whenever you double-click any attachment, such as an image for quick view. You must have lots of such downloads eating up large amount of memory. Go to youruserfolder/Library/Mail Downloads folder and clean up everything as a step towards cleaning up the Mac’s hard drive.

Alternatively, you can use a good software to clean up Mac for quick and better cleanup, and hence to experience real Mac performance.