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Mac spring cleaning

Hey ya'll,

I'm feeling the need to do some cleanup on my mac since it's been over a year since I started using it. Does anyone have some advice or checklists that outline what they do (and how they do it) to keep their machine tip top?

Thanks,

Jesse

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That's not entirely accurate. The...

fade wrote:
That's not entirely accurate. The Mac has an equivalent to the registry that you may want to look into if you're cleaning up: the Library Folder. Depending on your apps, some of the subfolders can get fairly large, and you may not need them anymore if you've uninstalled the app.

This is where AppZapper comes in handy if you don't feel like digging through a billion com.apple.whatever.plist.blah.blah.blah files to find the one you need to delete. :)

 
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