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1. How To Clear Memory On A Mac
2. How To Clear Space On Mac Library Folder
3. Clear Up Space On My Computer
4. How To Free Up Space On Mac Photo Library
5. How To Free Up Space On Photo Library Mac

Optimized Storage in macOS Sierra and later* can save space by storing your content in iCloud and making it available on demand. When storage space is needed, files, photos, movies, email attachments, and other files that you seldom use are stored in iCloud automatically. Each file stays right where you last saved it, and downloads when you open it. Files that you’ve used recently remain on your Mac, along with optimized versions of your photos.

1. Jan 27, 2020  How to free up storage space on your Mac. Save space by storing your content in iCloud or using built-in tools to find and remove large or unneeded files. Optimized Storage in macOS Sierra and later. can save space by storing your content in iCloud and making it available on demand. When storage space is needed, files, photos, films, email.
2. Oct 07, 2019  How to free up storage space on your Mac. If you haven't yet upgraded to macOS Sierra or later, learn about other ways to free up storage space. Find out how much storage is available on your Mac. Choose Apple menu About This Mac, then click Storage. This is an overview of available storage space on your Mac, as well as the space used.

* If you haven't yet upgraded to macOS Sierra or later, learn about other ways to free up storage space.

Find out how much storage is available on your Mac

Jul 19, 2017  By default, the Mail app on your Mac downloads all email attachments you receive to the computer, eventually taking some serious amounts of storage space. As we’ve seen in the past, there is a way to tweak this and stop the Mail app from downloading all attachments, but it will still locally download attachments that you open. And over time.

Choose Apple menu  > About This Mac, then click Storage. This is an overview of available storage space on your Mac, as well as the space used by different categories of files:

Click the Manage button to open the Storage Management window, pictured below. (The Manage button is available only in macOS Sierra or later.)

Manage storage on your Mac

The Storage Management window offers recommendations for optimizing your storage. If some recommendations are already turned on, you will see fewer recommendations.

Store in iCloud

Click the Store in iCloud button, then choose from these options:

• Desktop and Documents. Store all files from these two locations in iCloud Drive. When storage space is needed, only the files you recently opened are kept on your Mac, so that you can easily work offline. Files stored only in iCloud show a download icon , which you can double-click to download the original file. Learn more about this feature.
  
• Photos. Store all original, full-resolution photos and videos in iCloud Photos. When storage space is needed, only space-saving (optimized) versions of photos are kept on your Mac. To download the original photo or video, just open it.
  
• Messages. Store all messages and attachments in iCloud. When storage space is needed, only the messages and attachments you recently opened are kept on your Mac. Learn more about Messages in iCloud.

Storing files in iCloud uses the storage space in your iCloud storage plan. If you reach or exceed your iCloud storage limit, you can either buy more iCloud storage or make more iCloud storage available. iCloud storage starts at 50GB for $0.99 (USD) a month, and you can purchase additional storage directly from your Apple device. Learn more about prices in your region.

Optimize Storage

Click the Optimize button, then choose from these options.

• Automatically remove watched movies and TV shows. When storage space is needed, movies or TV shows that you purchased from the iTunes Store and already watched are removed from your Mac. Click the download icon next to a movie or TV show to download it again.
  
• Download only recent attachments. Mail automatically downloads only the attachments that you recently received. You can manually download any attachments at any time by opening the email or attachment, or saving the attachment to your Mac.
  
• Don't automatically download attachments. Mail downloads an attachment only when you open the email or attachment, or save the attachment to your Mac.

Optimizing storage for movies, TV shows, and email attachments doesn't require iCloud storage space.

Empty Trash Automatically

Empty Trash Automatically permanently deletes files that have been in the Trash for more than 30 days.

Reduce Clutter

Reduce Clutter helps you to identify large files and files you might no longer need. Click the Review Files button, then choose any of the file categories in the sidebar, such as Applications, Documents, Music Creation, or Trash.

You can delete the files in some categories directly from this window. Other categories show the total storage space used by the files in each app. You can then open the app and decide whether to delete files from within it.

Learn how to redownload apps, music, movies, TV shows, and books.

Where to find the settings for each feature

The button for each recommendation in the Storage Management window affects one or more settings in other apps. You can also control those settings directly within each app.

• If you're using macOS Catalina, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, click Apple ID, then select iCloud in the sidebar: Store in iCloud turns on the Optimize Mac Storage setting on the right. Then click Options next to iCloud Drive: Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders setting. To turn off iCloud Drive entirely, deselect iCloud Drive.
  In macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Options next to iCloud Drive. Store in iCloud turns on the Desktop & Documents Folders and Optimize Mac Storage settings.
• In Photos, choose Photos > Preferences, then click iCloud. Store in iCloud selects iCloud Photos and Optimize Mac Storage.
• In Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage. Store in iCloud selects Enable Messages in iCloud.

• If you're using macOS Catalina, open the Apple TV app, choose TV > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Files. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
  In macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes, choose iTunes > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Advanced. Optimize Storage selects “Automatically delete watched movies and TV shows.”
• In Mail, choose Mail > Preferences from the menu bar, then click Accounts. In the Account Information section on the right, Optimize Storage sets the Download Attachments menu to either Recent or None.

Empty Trash Automatically: From the Finder, choose Finder > Preferences, then click Advanced. Empty Trash Automatically selects “Remove items from the Trash after 30 days.”

Other ways that macOS helps automatically save space

With macOS Sierra or later, your Mac automatically takes these additional steps to save storage space:

• Detects duplicate downloads in Safari, keeping only the most recent version of the download
• Reminds you to delete used app installers
• Removes old fonts, languages, and dictionaries that aren't being used
• Clears caches, logs, and other unnecessary data when storage space is needed

How to free up storage space manually

Even without using the Optimized Storage features of Sierra or later, you can take other steps to make more storage space available:

• Music, movies, and other media can use a lot of storage space. Learn how to delete music, movies, and TV shows from your device.
• Delete other files that you no longer need by moving them to the Trash, then emptying the Trash. The Downloads folder is good place to look for files that you might no longer need.
• Move files to an external storage device.
• Compress files.
• Delete unneeded email: In the Mail app, choose Mailbox > Erase Junk Mail. If you no longer need the email in your Trash mailbox, choose Mailbox > Erase Deleted Items.

Learn more

• When you duplicate a file on an APFS-formatted volume, that file doesn't use additional storage space on the volume. Deleting a duplicate file frees up only the space required by any data you might have added to the duplicate. If you no longer need any copies of the file, you can recover all of the storage space by deleting both the duplicate and the original file.
• If you're using a pro app and Optimize Mac Storage, learn how to make sure that your projects are always on your Mac and able to access their files.

'A problem about my Mac hard drive kept bothering me. When I opened About Mac > Storage, it said that there're 20.29GB movie files, but I'm not sure where they are. I found it hard to locate them to see if I could delete or remove them from Mac to free up the storage. I have tried many ways but all of them didn't work. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?'

For Mac users, some of the movies files that take up the hard drive are mysterious because locating them can be tricky. So the problem would be where the movie files are and how to find and delete movies from Mac. This article will tell you how to fix it.

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1. Where Are Movies Stored on Mac?

Usually, the movie files can be found through the Finder > Movies folder. You can quickly delete or remove them from the Movies folder. But if the Movies folder option doesn't show up in Finder, you can make the change of the preferences by following the steps as:

Step 1 Open Finder Application;

Step 2 Go to the Finder's menu at the top of the screen;

Step 3 Click on the Preferences and select the Sidebar;

Step 4 Click on the Movies option.

Then the Movies folder will appear on the left column of Finder. You can find the movie files on Mac easily and quickly.

2. How to Delete Movies from Mac

Having known about where are those huge movie files stored on Mac, you can choose to delete them in several ways.

Delete Movies on Finder

Step 1 Open a Finder window;

Step 2 Select Search windows and type in the code kind:movies;

Step 3 Click on This Mac.

What you will see are all the movies files that located in Mac. And then choose all and delete them to reclaim space on your hard drive.

However, after deleting and removing the movies from Mac, maybe there is no obvious change in About This Mac > Storage measurements. So you need to use Spotlight re-index the boot drive. Below are the steps:

Step 1 Open System Preferences and choose Spotlight > Privacy;

Step 2 Drag and drop your boot hard drive (usually named as Macintosh HD) to the Privacy Panel;

Step 3 Wait for about 10 seconds then select it again. Press the minus button at the bottom of panel to remove it from Spotlight Privacy.

By this way can it re-index your hard drive and recover the accuracy of the storage measurement in About This Mac. You can then see how much free space you get by deleting movies on Mac.

Delete Movies from iTunes

You may have downloaded some movies files in iTunes. Now how to undownload the movies to free up hard drive space? You may follow the steps to delete movies from iTunes. Launch iTunes and click Library in the upper left corner;

Step 1 Change the button Music to Movies;

Step 2 Choose the appropriate tag in the left column of iTunes to view all your movies;

Step 3 Click on the movies or videos you want to remove, then press Delete on the key broad;

Step 4 Select Move to Trash in the pop-up window.

Then empty the trash bin manually, and the movies would be deleted from your hard drive. If you don't want to permanently delete the movies but want your free space back, you may go to iTunes Media folder via this path: /Users/yourmac/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media and move the iTunes videos files to a spare hard drive.

How To Clear Memory On A Mac

Use FonePaw MacMaster

Many users rather seek an easier way to remove movie files once for all than to delete them manually, especially the big ones, because sometimes it will waste a lot of time to locate them. Fortunately, there is a tool to do that easily — FonePaw MacMaster. This program is often used to clear up Mac to free up space, including the big movie files. MacMaster speeds up the cleaning process by:

Step 1 Download and install this program on Mac;

Step 2 Launch the program and select Large & Old Files in the left column;

Step 3 Click Scan to locate all your big files;

Step 4 You may choose to view the file by its size, name by clicking Sort By; Or you can enter the format of the movies files, for example, MP4/MOV, to filter out the movies files;

How To Clear Space On Mac Library Folder

Step 5 Select the files you want to remove or delete then click Clean.

Clear Up Space On My Computer

The big movie files have been successfully deleted or removed. You can save a lot of time and energy to clear up space through MacMaster. And you can continue to free up your Mac space with MacMaster by removing system caches and logs, duplicate files, similar photos, mail trash and more.

Hopefully, this article can provide some ideas to help you clear up the movie files. If you find it useful, share this article with your friends or give us comments if you have better solutions.

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