Many users who have just switched from Windows to Mac will inevitably not get used to it at first, because Mac does not have C drive or D drive like Windows, and the partitions are obvious. Therefore, this also brings some questions. Regarding the problem of cleaning the Mac disk, how to clean it? How to make sure it's clean? These are all very troublesome issues.
CleanMyMac is a disk cleaning tool under the Mac system. It can help users quickly and easily clean up the junk deep in the disk. Below, the editor will demonstrate how to use the CleanMyMac X version to clean up the disk on the Mac system.
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1. Intelligent scanning and quick cleaning
Click the "Smart Scan" item at the top of the left side of CleanMyMac, and then click the "Scan" button on the lower right side to automatically start scanning junk files on the Mac system. After the scan is completed, click the "Run" button to automatically run the cleanup scan. Disk garbage, as shown in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1: Run Smart Scan to clear disk junk
2. System disk junk cleaning
The above-mentioned quick cleanup is just the simplest shallow cleanup. CleanMyMac also provides users with a special system cleanup function: the "system garbage" cleanup function in the "second item" on the left side of the main interface, as shown in the red box in Figure 2 below.
This item can help users optimize the system and remove temporary files from the system. It can also help users delete various damaged files that may cause application abnormalities and perform a more thorough disk cleanup.
Figure 2: System junk cleaning function
So how does this function? Click "Scan" on the right to scan the system garbage in the disk. As you can see from Figure 3, the scanned results include "user cache files, system log files, language files, system cache files and user log files". Click the blue button Color View Project to view specific projects.
Figure 3: System junk cleaning scan results
The specific garbage scanned is as shown in Figure 4. You can see that there are a lot of garbage in various folders and application caches. The default state is all selected, that is, all will be cleaned. The user can uncheck the desired retained items. After completion, click "Return" above to return to the previous page, and then click Clean.
Figure 4: Uncheck reserved items
3. Space lens for disk cleaning
The above are all ways CleanMyMac helps users clean up their disks. Users can also clean up their disks manually. Then they need to use CleanMyMac’s space lens function. This function is very powerful and allows the Mac system to browse like a Windows system. Folders on each disk on the system, clean the files in specific folders.
Click "Space Lens" on the left menu bar, and then start scanning. After CleanMyMac completes building the system storage map, the result page will be as shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Space lens results
Click the small arrow on the right side of a folder in Figure 5 above to expand and view the specific files in the folder. Check the disk files you want to clean, and then click the "Remove" button to quickly remove them from your Mac. Remove the file, as shown in Figure 6 below.
Figure 6: Remove disk files
The above is a tutorial on using the Mac disk cleaning tool-CleanMyMac to perform manual or automatic disk cleaning.