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Adam Engst 40 comments

Follow These Steps to Clear Space on Your Mac

Apple no longer makes it easy to tell precisely how much free space is available on your Mac, but you know when you don’t have enough. Adam Engst offers (and explains) 21 simple steps to clear space quickly.

GrandPerspective 3.4.1 Agen Schmitz No comments

GrandPerspective 3.4.1

Revamps the the graphical disk usage utility's toolbar. (Free, 2.5 MB, macOS 11+)

GrandPerspective 3.0 Agen Schmitz No comments

GrandPerspective 3.0

Adds the capability to quickly refresh a view to the graphical disk usage utility. (Free, 3 MB, macOS 10.9+)

Adam Engst 8 comments

Clear Space to Fix Catalina Update Restart Loop

After being flummoxed by updates to Security Update 2021-002 for macOS 10.15 Catalina and Safari 14.1 that required a restart but never installed, Adam Engst discovered that Apple’s installer will fail silently if there isn’t enough free space.

GrandPerspective 2.5.3 Agen Schmitz 3 comments

GrandPerspective 2.5.3

Brings support for M1-based Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur to the graphical disk usage utility. (Free, 3.1 MB, macOS 10.9+)

Josh Centers 26 comments

Freezing Finder? Dropbox and Overstuffed Folders May Be the Culprit

Is your Finder sputtering and freezing? Josh Centers solved his Finder problems by cleaning out his Downloads folder and toggling Dropbox’s Finder integration.