How To Free Up Storage Space On Your Mac

Right click on the trash icon and choose empty trash.

How to free up storage space on your mac.

Delete large messages or messages with attachments or move the messages to a mailbox on your mac. There are four options. Press the option key. Click the manage button to open the storage management window pictured below.

Where to find the settings for each feature. Copy any files you don t use very often or take up a lot of space to the external media. Click on caches. Choose apple menu about this mac and then click storage.

Click on the message and choose message remove attachments from the menu bar. The manage button is available only in macos sierra or later. Click the manage button to open the storage management window pictured below. Open up mail and click on the folder that you want to find and remove attachments for.

Store in icloud free up space on your computer by storing files in icloud. This is an overview of available storage space on your mac as well as the space used by different categories of files. You can only either turn it on or off. Click the store in icloud button then choose from these options.

After inserting the device it will show up on your desktop and in finder. Manage storage on your mac. This won t delete the attachment. Use the sort by size option to find the biggest messages.

It shows you which types of files they are how old they are and lets you delete batches of files by size. Right click on unnecessary app service folders and choose move to trash. If your email account exceeds the storage limits set by the account s provider you can take some actions in mail to free up space on the account s mail servers. This is a smarter way of discerning which files are taking up space on your mac especially if you don t need access to those files often.

Clean up big attachments in mac mail. Since our purpose is to free up space we recommend that we leave the option as on. You will see a new option for the library. This option moves items off your storage drive and into your apple account in the cloud.

You can free up storage space on mac by automatically erasing your trash items after 30 days. Plug in a storage device into an available port on your mac. Each segment of the bar is an estimate of the storage space used by a category of files. In the mail app on your mac do any of the following.

Delete the original files from your computer or any other files you no longer need. Move your pointer over each segment for more detail. Choose apple menu about this mac then click storage.