Disk Clean up. . .

[Nadasive]

Im thinking about performing a Disk Clean-up on my MacBook Pro, it says I have about 20 GB free out of 120 and I think thats awkward because I barely have anything on my Macbook Pro

If I do do a disk clean up in Macintosh HD drive, will it delete the system files??
Or will it delete the very important files that is required for mac to run properly??

If you could help that would be awesome considering I barely know anything about macs..

 

[Nadasive]

When I'm in Disk Utility, I want to click on 'Empty free Space'... will that delete everything except system files??

 

[tyr2]

When I'm in Disk Utility, I want to click on 'Empty free Space'... will that delete everything except system files??

No that doesn't delete anything at all. It just writes random data over the empty space on the disk. Its used if you want to ensure that any old deleted files cannot be recovered.

It won't free up any new space.

 

[Nadasive]

Oh. . . . Is there a way that I can do a Disk Clean-up then??

 

[tyr2]

I don't think there is a 'disk clean up' thing like you have in Windows. However I can recommend Disk Inventory X if you are trying to figure out where your space went. It's a really good visualizer for disk space usage.

 

[Nadasive]

I don't think there is a 'disk clean up' thing like you have in Windows. However I can recommend Disk Inventory X if you are trying to figure out where your space went. It's a really good visualizer for disk space usage.

Ill take a look at that, thanks...

 

[zblaxberg]

there is no disk cleanup on a mac. you can try using delocalizer to remove extra languages you don't need. Saved me like 3 gigs

 

[hookem12387]

there is no disk cleanup on a mac. you can try using delocalizer to remove extra languages you don't need. Saved me like 3 gigs

When I googled for localizer it says it hasn't been updated since 10.2?