Sometimes people may find their hard-drive space being progressively used up, and there are many reasons why this could happen. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Some files in macOS may not be necessary and can be safely removed from your Mac. Here's how to delete them. macOS is a UNIX-based system at its core, and as such, its filesystem arrangement is more ...

Managing storage space on Macs can be tricky, especially if you own one of the lower storage capacity models. Even though Apple offers a native macOS tool to give you a detailed breakdown of how much ...

In macOS, the operating system stores logs and crash report files in a variety of locations. Third-party logs are also stored. Once in a while, you'll want to clean these out and delete them in order ...

Mozilla's macOS Firefox browser stores cached files on your Startup Disk and can take up space. This is how to reset Firefox to get back some of that consumed storage. When you run the Mozilla ...

Inside your home folder is a Library folder—commonly written in Unix syntax as ~/Library, which means “a folder named Library at the root level of your home folder.” This folder is accessible only to ...

Ok, for some reason, clipboard stopped working on my computer, for one user initially, then for all users. I went to the trusty osxhints.com and typed my problem. The hint told me to get rid of ...

[Editor’s note: The list is now up to 19, thanks to a great reader tip.] But if you’ve just upgraded to Lion, try accessing your personal Library folder that way now. Go ahead…I’ll wait. While I ...