You can also drag-and-drop an application’s icon to the trash can icon on your dock. Or, open the Launchpad interface and drag-and-drop an application’s icon to the trash can from there. Most applications will go straight to your trash, and you can then Control-click or right-click. 2020-3-24 Note that /Library is not visible by default in Finder in Lion, but you can access it by pasting the path in Finder (without the backslash in 'Autosave Information'; the formatting above is for cd-ing in Terminal.app), or there is an option to enable the visibility (chflags nohidden /Library). Sep 05, 2017 Unfortunately, the Autosave Information folder is empty. And there is no Containers folder in the Time Machine Backups mycomputername timeanddateofbackup myHDname Library folder. Nor is there a Library folder in Time Machine Backups mycomputername timeanddateofbackup myHDname Users myname, only lib.
Use the sidebar of the Storage pane to sort through items by category, see how much space is used, and quickly find documents, apps, books, movies, backups, and other files. Then delete what you no longer need.
Note: The categories you see vary, depending on the apps and files on your Mac.
Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, click Storage, then click Manage.
Click a category in the sidebar:
Applications, Music, and Books: These categories list files individually. To delete an item, move the pointer over the file name, then click the Delete button .
Note: If you delete an item that you got from the iTunes Store, the App Store, or Apple Books using your Apple ID, the item is still in iCloud, and you can download it again.
Documents: See all the documents on your Mac. You can quickly view large files or downloads by clicking the corresponding button, and sort files by clicking Name, Kind, Last Accessed, or Size near the top of the window. You can also click File Browser to view the contents and amount of storage used by various folders in your file system.
Note: Some folders and files that are already represented by categories in the sidebar—other than Documents—are dimmed.
To delete a file, move the pointer over the file, then click the Delete button ; click the magnifying glass to view the file in the Finder.
iCloud Drive and Mail: These categories provide general recommendations for optimizing storage. To accept the recommendation, click the button.
iOS files: See iOS backup and firmware files listed individually. To delete an item, move the pointer over the file, then click the Delete button .
Trash: In this category, click Empty Trash to erase all the items in the Trash. Move the pointer over a file, then click the Delete button to delete an individual file.
Mac storage space is important to us. And it should be important to you too. The performance of our Macs is tied to our available storage space. A Mac with a full hard disk is going to be very slow and make it harder for apps and the OS to run smoothly.
Today we want to discuss the silent storage killers – the Pages, Notes, and Keynote apps.
It's easy to identify big video files and other obvious storage space hogs. But what about apps that create small temporary and cache files? These files are tiny on their own but if they are constantly generated by the app and the user (when saving files) then over time these grains of sand can become a full-scale beach.
If you are a regular user of Pages, Notes, or Keynote, then you potentially have thousands of old documents, old versions of these old documents, and cache files related to these old documents. If your head is spinning, we don’t blame you. But fear not because we're going to show you how to clear out the junk made by these apps and reclaim a nice chunk of your Mac storage space.
When working on a document you can always roll back to a previous version with the Version History screen. But if you don’t want or need to roll back on certain documents, it would be a good idea to remove document versions and free up some space.
We’re going to show you have to accomplish that and also clear the cache for Pages, Keynote, and Notes. All you need is Finder and a bit of bravery. Before using these manual solutions, please make sure that your current documents are saved, and you don't need old (unsaved) versions of your documents.
Ready? Let's go!
To manually remove versions and cache from Pages:
The steps for Notes and Keynote are the same, just using a different file path.
Notes - /Users/Username/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Caches
Keynote - /Users//Library/Containers/com.apple.iWork.Keynote/Data/Library/Caches
Delete those folders, and your Mac should be a lot cleaner, with a significant amount of freed up space for personal file storage or a better performing system.
The problem with the manual approach is the potential for deleting the wrong thing as well as the black and white nature of the manual removal. You either have all your app cache, or you have none of it. Wouldn’t it be better if there was a way to remove the bulk of old document versions but keep a select few in case you ever need to go back to a previous version?
Well, there is a way, and that’s what we’re going to cover next.
Instead of completely removing the file history of your Notes, Pages, and Keynote documents, why not get a clear overview of all your document history and then make your own decision? This way you can keep some basic version history while removing the majority of the version files that you’ll never need.
You free up a lot of storage space on your Mac while still having backup versions if you ever need them. It's the best of both worlds.
This can’t be done manually but can be achieved with CleanMyMac’s version module. It will give you an overview of your version history for Pages, Notes, and Keynote. CleanMyMac will present early versions of backup files from every four-hour block of time working on the file.
So if you were working on a Keynote presentation for 12 hours total, you might have hundreds of versions auto-saved by the app. CleanMyMac will keep the last version from each four-hour block for a total of three versions. Let’s see how it works.
To review and clean document versions follow these steps:
If you don't want to review your documents and you just want CleanMyMac to remove 99.9% of version history and cache junk immediately, it can be done in just two clicks:
Final cut x library location mac. These methods don?t just work for document apps like Pages, Notes, and Keynote. They work for many other macOS apps that store caches, including 'cache eaters' like Chrome and Safari.
We ran CleanMyMac X on a typical Mac system that uses Pages, Notes, and Keynote on a regular basis. As you can see below, the removal of the cache and version history freed up 5 GB of space.
Did you ever imagine that document apps could be wasting so much space?
Try these cleaning methods yourself and see how much hard disk space you can reclaim from the silent storage killers.
In doing so you will become the killer of junk!