How to Free Up Disk Space on Your Mac - Updated in 2018

So your disk fills up & you start experiencing slow performance. How do you check your mac hard drive space? You can use the built in tool however it’s limited in that it doesn’t specify what exactly is taking up that space. That’s where Disk Drill comes in. This tutorial focuses on managing your hard drives via the disk space analyzer for mac. This is an integral part to maintaining your hard drives & assuring their in a healthy state. Full drives can cause slow performance on your mac, prevent you from saving new files, and much more. So some cleaning now & again can help assure your running efficiently. Simply download Disk Drill, extract it to your applications folder, and run the app. Click on the “Clean Up” button via the main window to launch the disk cleaner. You’ll then be asked to designate the drive that you’d like to clean. This can be internal drives, external, network drives, and even SSD’s. After selecting the volume Disk Drill will begin to analyze the drive to see what's taking up the most space. The scanning technology will sort through any drive be it a FAT partition or NTFS across all sorts of file types video, documents, pictures, etc. Depending on the size of your drive it can take minutes or even seconds. After which you're presented with a highly visual results page. Disk Drill goes a step beyond & lists your files from largest to smallest file sizes. Color coding the larger files/folders in red, yellow, and green. Filter options are even available if you’d like to search by a certain file type such as just pictures. Other options include the ability to display by certain file sizes or the ability to show or not showcase hidden files. From here it’s completely up to you to decide on what files you’d like to remove from the list. Furthermore Disk Drill keeps you safe by ensuring you don’t delete any important system files from mac OS. So if you’ve ever wondered how to free up disk space on the mac then you’ve come to the right place. Unlike most tools that simply tell you the drive space being taken up Disk Drill showcases a visual look at the files and allows you to easily go to the source folder or preview them before deleting. No need to manually scour your hard drive to find those pesky files taking up gigabytes of data. Scanning, sorting, and allowing you to easily clean the drive all in one feature. Make room for new apps, documents, and more importantly keep your drives running efficient by downloading this feature & Disk Drill for free today!

[Plastik]

I dont understand. The filles that appear are they accessible files or deleted files ? When you click remove for a file, does that mean that the computer write over that file to become irrecoverable ?

[scraperfect]

I don't have the pictures, videos, etc on the top like you do and i just upgraded.

[RidderRudolf]

Can you talk a little slower please....not al of us are born with this tong. You rattle !