Is the another great category why my computer is slow?
I get a lot of beach and the General slow balls spinning this month.
One thing I checked last week my storage status. 237 free GB to 999 GB and 618 for which is the category "other"! I hate this wave "other" category. Here is a screenshot.
You can see that I have barely keep anything on my internal drive. I don't have a lot of applications. The ones I use regularly is Mail, Safari, Lightroom and Photoshop.
A few years ago I learned about a procedure in disk utility to completely erase the disk space, but when I went to do, I couldn't find more, as El Capitan got rid of him. Is there something similar I can do?
Is this large amount of yellow on the bar as alarming as it looks and probably why my computer is slow?
Thank you!
p.s. in another thread, I will post about a glitch that happens with my trash. Maybe it's related.
The function of Secure Erase of Trash was removed to El Capitan. One of the reasons was that it worked as expected. The other is that it reduces the life expectancy of the SSD.
I would suggest your download and install OmniDiskSweeper. When you rum ODS, it will tell you the names of the files and folders that use the most space. You can then decide for yourself or ask us what can be detected or moved.
The first step in the process must be a full backup of everything.
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