) You need a utility to assist you in finding the largest files so that you can decide which ones you really still need. (You can spend hours deleting unneeded emails, and while this is useful for a number of reasons, it doesn’t usually result in large amounts of space being freed up. To maximize the amount of free space you have, you will need to get rid of large, unneeded files first. So, utilities to manage your hard drives are quite useful to me, and in this blog post I will describe the ones I use – the first of which all Parallels Desktop users already have, and the other utilities you can get for free.įor me, the most important aspect to file management is free space, and this means getting rid of files you no longer need. (By “hard drives” I mean any place that you can store files: the main storage on your Mac, whether it is a rotating disk or SSD, the cloud (like Dropbox or OneDrive), an external drive, a DVD or CD, or even a USB thumb drive.) I follow the advice given to me many years ago: “If you don’t have three copies of a digital file – each on a separate drive – then you don’t really care about losing it.” Great advice that has saved me many times, but I do tend to fill up hard drives pretty often. One of my many character flaws is that I am a bit of a digital hoarder.
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