If you've been using your Mac Mini for a while, you've probably accumulated a lot of files and apps. These could be documents you created, photos, music, software downloads, app support files, and more. There are free programs that can help you get a handle on what's taking up space on your Mac Mini's hard drive, and clean out what you no longer need.
First, check for any unnecessary files that may be taking up a lot of space. Look in “Users/Your Username/Documents” and “Users/Your Username/Downloads” for disk images from installed programs or any other files you might no longer need. If you want to keep the disk images, archive them on one of your external drives.
After checking the most obvious locations, you can look for other files and folders that take up a lot of space on your disk. Programs like CleanGenius scan your hard drive and provide you with a list of unnecessary files that you can investigate within the larger directories to assess which ones can be archived or deleted.
Next, you should look through your applications installed on the hard drive and safely remove any that you no longer use to free up some disk space. Most programs not only put the application in the "Applications" folder, but also create other files (support files) in other folders. The easiest way to delete an application is to simply drag it to the Trash, but this will not remove the associated files.
To completely uninstall any application, you need to use a uninstaller, and CleanGenius is one of those tools that can help you delete apps easily.
By performing regular maintenance and clean-up, you can ensure that your Mac doesn't get bogged down by unnecessary files, programs, support files, and other junk that takes up valuable hard drive space.
Speedy Mac: Keep your Mac healthy and free up more disk space. With just one click on the utility, all junk files (system caches, user caches, system logs, user logs, user downloads, Trash, Safari Internet cache, etc.) will be removed in seconds.
Monitor disk space: It shows how much storage you have available, and alerts you when you're running low. You can free up space by deleting or moving files to ensure your Mac runs smoothly.
Eject: Use this to eject mounted volumes such as external storage devices, CDs and DVDs, a SuperDrive, network storage, and disk images.
Mac Uninstaller: Safely and completely uninstall apps along with their components, preferences, logs, etc. Select an app and with one click, it will be removed along with its add-ons.
Duplicate File Finder: Duplicate files with the same content waste precious disk space. CleanGenius can easily find and delete duplicate files to reclaim wasted disk space.
Disk Usage: Visualize the size of your files and folders, and delete large ones you no longer need to free up disk space.
Free up RAM: When your Mac runs low on free memory, you can easily use CleanGenius to free up RAM and speed up its performance.
Set Login Items: Some infrequently used apps might launch automatically every time you start up your Mac, slowing it down. If you don't want an app to open at startup, just disable the annoying login items with CleanGenius.
Browser plugins cleanup: This supports cleaning and removing plugins, cache, and cookies from browsers such as Safari, Chrome, or Firefox. Your browsing history, bookmarks, and downloaded files will not be touched.