{"id":12984,"date":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espirian.co.uk\/reclaim-disk-space-on-your-mac\/"},"modified":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T00:00:00","slug":"reclaim-disk-space-on-your-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espirian.co.uk\/reclaim-disk-space-on-your-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Reclaim disk space on your Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"
Having recently almost filled my iMac’s hard disk, I needed a way to free up some disk space. But where to start?<\/p>\n
\nI decided the best approach would be to find the largest files on my computer, deleting the ones I didn’t need.<\/p>\n
Here’s how to do it.<\/p>\n
Open a Finder window and take a look at the Status bar at the bottom.<\/p>\n
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If you don’t see the Status bar, you can turn it on by going to the View<\/strong> menu and clicking Show Status bar<\/strong> (or press Now it’s time to search for the files taking up lots of disk space. Here’s how:<\/p>\n The single search rule displayed by default looks like this:<\/p>\n [Kind] is [Any]<\/p>\nCmd<\/code>+
\/<\/code>).<\/p>\n
Look for large files<\/h2>\n
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Cmd<\/code>+
F<\/code>).<\/li>\n