Generally, we encounter the storage problem on almost all of your devices, and your Mac is not exempt from this small detail. That’s why it’s important to know a series of easy tricks for any user.
This short but precise list focuses on the most traditional methods, thus preserving the security of the computer by avoiding downloading any files with malicious content. This way, you protect the computer and preserve its originality.
- 1. Don’t accumulate files in the trash
At the top of this list, we find a factor that many of you may think is unimportant. But the truth is that this is a key procedure that can give us the ability to free up some storage space on the computer’s memory and even improve its performance.
Additionally, we’ll have an essential tool for this trick, which consists of configuring the computer to delete files within a month. Thanks to this, you’ll remove a burden from yourself, as it will be done automatically.
To configure this action, we’ll go to the Finder settings on the Mac, then we’ll go to the advanced tab, and finally, click on the option that says “Empty Trash items after 30 days.” This way, your Mac will be configured to delete files from the trash.
- 2. Remove unused apps
In the second tip, we see another fundamental trick in the storage topic, which is to make sure we only have installed the applications that we actually use. If we have apps downloaded just for fun, they will take up a considerable amount of space and thus directly affect the performance of the computer.
Next, to remove the unused applications, we’ll have to go to the Finder, then you’ll see a series of options, but we’ll go to the applications section, then we’ll have to move the apps to the trash. On the other hand, to make it shorter, you’ll have to go to the storage in the settings and click on applications, and automatically you’ll have the list of all the apps downloaded on the Apple Mac.
- 3. Accept Apple’s recommendations
Finally, we find this Apple tool that probably almost no one takes into account, but what they don’t know is that this is considered an infallible trick to uniformly improve the lifespan of your devices. Because the macOS software will help us with recommendations to optimize the performance and storage of the computer.
To do this, we’ll have to go to the settings of your Mac, then while here we’ll touch on general, then we’ll click on storage, and here is where you’ll find the recommendations for the device. Additionally, if you want to execute them, you’ll see a button to the right of each one. Similarly, after pressing it, it will take you to the respective procedure to carry out the recommendation.