Easily Clean Up Your Mac Hard Drive

The weather is changing and continuously becoming warmer in the necks of woods. So, it is the time to thinking about spring-cleaning. While you are busy in emptying your closets, decluttering etc. why not do the same for Mac OS X? Below are some of the helpful tips and tricks through which you can clean up and speed up Mac easily. 

1. Clean Mac:

Turn-off your system and unplug everything and finally take it out from where you have set it up initially. Give some space to your system, whether it is Mac Pro or iMac (This is because there are some dusts and grime collect around it after a period of time). 

Apple has officially announced to cleaning up the gear. And, while every second system is different from other, it is a good idea to take a fiber cloth to remove dust and smudges from outside surface or oil which may be lingering on your system screen. 

Apple recommends the users to use a damp, lint-free cloth to clean up the system. But a small fiber cloth can also do the task efficiently for you.

2. Tame the system cable clutter:

Before your setting up your Mac system, go further and spend some time to tame the cable clutter, which is kept under the deck over a period of time without any use. 

It is always beneficial if you already know how to wrap up the clutter cable, so you can save a lot of useful desk space.

3. Update your Mac:

Before you set up your system again, it is a good practice to update all the necessary security updates, latest patches and system software update through Software update. 

If you are running an old version of Mac, then try to update it to the latest version, i.e. Mac OS X 10.10.

4. Uninstall all the unnecessary apps:

Once you update your system to the latest version, it is time to remove all the unnecessary apps that are not being used for a longer period of time. In most of the cases, uninstalling app is very simple, just drag and drop that particular app to the trash folder. 

We recommend you to use a professional uninstaller software like Stellar Speedup Mac which is completely free and helps you uninstalling the apps within minutes. 

It has a very good user-interface and some advanced options. If you are using one of those apps in order to remove unwanted software, also make sure you remove all their associated files as well.

5. Reclaim your system hard-drive space:

If you have follow and perform the above-mentioned steps, there are higher chances that your Mac will get cleaned from outside, and it is up to date with latest security updates. Also, you have got rid of all the useless applications installed on your system. 

Now, it is time to finish the outside cleaning part, and focus more on the inside part of the system in order to take back all the memory space, which is currently wasted by old images, videos, or any other files which you didn't know present on your system.

Stellar SpeedUp Mac is one of the professional and widely used software which will scan the complete hard drives and tell you which application is eating up how much memory and CPU resources. It also shows you all the necessary steps that you need to take in order to reclaim the hard drive space.

6. Do some system maintenance tasks and optimize it:

Up to here, you have cleaned up the mess from your Mac. Now, it is time to give your Mac a little bit TLC. Move to the Disk Utility and click on the “Verify Disk”. In most of the cases, it doesn't take too much time and if you see any error in the drive, click on the “Repair Disk”. 

It is beneficial for a Mac user to verify their disk every month in order to make sure you are missing any issue with your hard drive.

7. Take a backup of your Refreshed Mac:

After performing all the steps, your Mac will run smoothly and faster, than it was in past. Now, it is time to take a backup of the refreshed Mac. You can take the backup either using a software or by manually.

That’s all from our side. Usually, Mac doesn't take too much in the maintenance, but they can take some cleanup operations after a regular period of time.