Speed up Mac OS X 10.9 | Clean up Mac OS 10.9 drive

Would I have to search for solution for slow Mac OS X 10.9 . How to fix slow Mac running OS X 10.9. As per the resources, the new version of OS X is going to release in few weeks. It is important to note that OS X Mountain Lion came with app-based features from iOS but in OS X 10.9, the additions from iOS will focus more on system fundamentals. 

Usually, we upgrade the OS X without arranging the necessary basic requirements for it. This could slow down your Mac and can ruin your Mac experience. Here we are discussing tips which can help you to fix issue of slow Mac OS X 10.9 in coming future.

Deleting unnecessary files saved on the hard drive not only speeds up the Mac machine, but even frees up the disk space. A hard drive storing less amount of data performs considerably well as compared to the one, which is about to get full. Today, computer’s hard drives offer large data storage capacity (i.e. 500GBs and more) allowing the users to store large amount of data on a single device. However, users are not aware of the gradual decrease in performance of the hard drives due to massive amount of data. Therefore, to improve Mac’s performance, it is recommended not to store the unnecessary files on the hard drive.

Well, the recommendation does not imply to delete Mac files or the data currently not in use, but move them to any external USB hard drive. There are several effective ways to get rid of the unnecessary files saved on the Mac machine. Moreover, a few easy to perform ones are discussed below: 

Clean up Mac volumes

Go through all Mac volumes scanning each file and folder manually to prepare a separate note with the names of the files currently being used, frequently used, rarely used, and finally those which are not used but are stored. Keep only those files that are currently being used and frequently used; thereby moving all rarely-used files to any external data storage device. On the other hand, you can delete the files that are not used.

Delete Auto-downloaded Mail Attachments

You send and receive emails with attachments (such as images) that remain in emails as well as automatically downloaded at youruserfolder/Library/Mail Downloads whenever you open any attachment by double-clicking it. Go to the default download location and delete all such attachments to free up the disk space, and even to speed up the email. 

Delete Temporary Files

Operating system performs different calculations, processing, and displays the result. All such events are stored in binary format in the intermediate files. These temporary files are of no use after completing the process. In addition, browser cookies, junk, corrupt, and system binaries are the files that should be removed from the hard drive periodically. 

Remove Duplicate Files

When you download any attachment from the email or anything from the Internet, it goes to a default download location. Moreover, many a times, you specify desktop as the destination to save the file. All such downloads are duplicated if you copy and paste (instead of moving) them to a location where all other similar files are saved.

You can find all duplicate files on your hard drive in Finder’s result. Moreover, you can download smart finder tools from the Internet for better result.