Space Ears Mac OS

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What is taking up space on my Mac?

There comes a time in every computer's life when it is full of files and programs, slowing it down so much that its owner searches for an article such as this in order to cure it of these ailments (before it gets thrown out the window!).

Worry not, you're in the right place. This article will take you through 8 steps which will free up space on your Mac - removing unneeded files and clearing space for the stuff you actually need.

No matter if you're tech savvy or not, anyone can use these tips to breathe new life into their Mac.

To find out how much space is available on your Mac:

1. Open the Apple menu (the Apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen).
2. Click 'About this Mac'.
3. Click 'Storage'.

This overview will show what categories are taking up the most space, as well as how much space is available on your Mac.

The 8 sections below address the biggest culprits of space-hogging on your Mac and how to clean them up.

Jump straight to:

1. Mac OS Storage Management

The first port of call when making space on your Mac is to see what tools your Mac offers you for such a task.

If your Mac is running macOS Sierra or later, it has great built-in tools for managing files and optimizing storage. To access these tools, click the apple icon in the top-left corner of your screen > About this Mac > Storage > Manage…

As you can see this is also how to check storage on Mac. The tool shows a breakdown of the storage space taken up on your Mac by media such as Apps, Books, Photos and others.

Let's have a look at each tool to see how it can help:

• Store in iCloud: Quickly store files (Documents, Photos and Messages) from your Mac in iCloud. When considering how to clear space on Mac, getting rid of files quickly springs to mind- However, if you need to keep the files, you can just move them to an external hard drive, or into iCloud!

  Enabling this option will allow your Mac to automatically save space when it’s needed.

  This is great as you’ll be able to access your files on any device using your Apple ID. However, if you have a large number of files, you’ll need to purchase more storage space than your allotted free amount (5GB)- obviously, depending on the amount of space you need, this can quickly become an expensive option.
  

• Optimize Storage: For those who download and watch lots of movies and TV, this option can save you a lot of space and a lot of time. Enabling this option will allow your Mac to automatically remove such files (which can be HUGE depending on their length and quality) once you have watched them.
  

• Empty Trash Automatically: Similar to the above, enabling this option allows the automatic removal of files, saving you time and space without having to keep on top of it manually. This will remove items in your Trash after 30 days of them being there. Be aware that once files have been removed from your Trash, you will not be able to retrieve them.

  Side note: Many points in this article will advise the removal of unwanted files from your Mac. However, these files are not completely removed from your computer until you empty the Trash (the space is not regained until they are removed from Trash). You can manually empty it by clicking the Trash Can icon in your dock, then clicking 'Empty'.

• Reduce Clutter: Find large and unused files on your Mac and delete them from your system. You’ll need to delete them manually, but it’s well worth it if you can remove files that you do not use.

  Navigate to files that you don't need using the 'Large Files' or 'Downloads' sorters, then hit 'Delete...'. Note that this action will bypass sending the item to Trash, so it's permanent.
  If you're finding unwanted files using the 'File Browser' tab, you'll need to right-click > 'Move To Trash'.

2. Find Duplicate Files Mac

The quickest way to free up space on your Mac is to automatically remove files that you don’t need. Without realizing it, you can accumulate gigabytes worth of duplicate files and folders on your computer.

The problem is that it can take so much time to find and delete these duplicates that people do not bother to do it even if they want to.

Luckily, you can use an app like Duplicate Sweeper to do this for you.

Duplicate Sweeper: Easily scan your Mac for duplicate files and photos. You can then select and remove duplicates based on your preferences. In this way you can keep your newest version of files and remove all duplicates with a click of a button.

In the example below, I was able to remove over 6000 files with one-click. This freed up 2.3 GB of space on my MacBook. Imagine manually going through and comparing 6000 files without Duplicate Sweeper... it would have taken forever!

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3. Unused Apps- Uninstall Programs on Mac

One of the biggest areas you should consider when looking at how to free up space on Mac is your Apps. Maybe unsurprisingly, apps on your Mac can be some of the largest files on your computer. Removing apps that you don’t use can free up a huge amount of space. Let’s list your apps by their files size:

Open Finder, then open the Applications section. Display the items as a list (using the button with 4 horizontal lines), then click the ‘Size’ header to reorder your applications by size. You can then work down the list and decide which applications you don’t use. Simply drag an application from the list into the Trash Can on your Dock to remove them.

Remember that you’ll need to empty your Trash Can to completely remove the applications from your Mac.

4. Clean up media and downloads

The quality of media like photo and video is constantly improving. Unfortunately, this usually means that the corresponding files are bigger than they used to be.

For this reason, your saved media could be a great place to free up some of that precious storage on your Mac.

Open Finder and look through your Pictures, Movies and Music folders. If there is media there that you don't want, select it and move it to Trash to get rid of later. If you prefer to delete this media from the associated apps like Photos and iMovie, see how to empty their trash.

It is also recommended to check your Downloads file for unwanted files too.

This folder can receive copious amounts of files downloaded from multiple sources. Many of these files you may have only needed to read or use once.

You can get to your Downloads folder by opening a Finder window and clicking the 'Downloads' header.

Again, select whatever files you don't need, then right-click > Move to Trash/Bin.

Extra: Zipped / Archived files

If you receive a zipped file (with the .zip extension), opening it will unzip the file or folder and create the files in a non-zipped form.

This will create files that you can use, but it will not remove the (now unneeded) zip file. If you've already unzipped, you can delete the .zip file.

On the flip side, you can use file archiving to compress files or folders that you don't use regularly.

Say you have a folder of documents that you only need to save for safekeeping; right-click the folder in Finder and click 'Compress [file/folder name]'. This will compress the files and create a .zip file.

Don't forget to delete the original, uncompressed folder in order to save the space!

5. Delete iTunes backups

Depending on the number of files, photos, messages etc that you have stored on your iPhone, iPod or iPad, it’s backup on your Mac can be huge.

Keeping backups of your devices is a good idea. If something was to happen to your device, your data can be restored to it (or another device) using your backup. However, these backup files can be massive, and you may never need them! For this reason, consider backing up your devices to iCloud instead – freeing up space on your Mac.

To set your device to backup to iCloud, go to Settings > (your name) > iCloud > iCloud Backup.
To initiate a backup, connect your device to a power source and also to a Wi-Fi network. Lastly, ensure that your device screen is locked and that you have enough free space in iCloud to store the backup.

How to delete backups on Mac - You can also delete the backups which you already have stored on your Mac. To do this, open iTunes and go to iTunes > Preferences > Devices. If you don’t need the backups in the list, select and delete them!

Find out: where are iTunes backups stored?

Alternatively, if you don’t want to use iCloud for backing up your data, or if you only need certain data from your backups, you could use iBackup Extractor. This handy tool allows you to access and browse your backups, and extract any important photos, messages etc. that you need. You can save this data to your computer, then delete the backup from iTunes as seen above!

6. How to Delete Temporary Files on Mac

Some of the most common questions asked are 'how to clear cache on mac' and 'how to delete cookies on mac'. Well, let's answer those for you!

Temporary and cache are files that are stored locally in order to speed up processes. For example, images from a website that you visited can be cached, so that when you visit the page again, you don’t have to wait to download the images again, they are simply pulled in from the cache. That’s great for processes that you use regularly, but without care, your temporary and cached files can build up and eat away at your Mac’s performance.

Let’s see how to clear cache on mac – Open Finder > Go > hold ‘option’ and click ‘Library’ > Caches. Select and delete any cache files and folders that you don’t need to save space!

7. Taking out the Trash

Deleting files on your Mac usually only moves them to your Trash Can (or Bin).

This is great, because if you 'delete' something by accident, you can restore it to its original location - no harm done.

However, if you are culling files on your Mac to make space, you may wonder why you are not gaining storage after clicking delete.

To permanently delete files from the Mac, you'll need to empty your Trash Can. To do this, simply click the Trash Can (or Bin) icon in your Dock.

Here, you can review or restore files in your Trash/Bin.

To permanently delete all the files in your bin, click Empty. You'll be asked if you're sure, and to confirm the permanent deletion of the files.

Deleting files from Photos, iMovie and Mail apps...

Generally, you'll be able to use the steps above to permanently delete files. However, some apps have their own way to manage 'deleted' files.

As such, you'll need to empty trash cans in individual apps to ensure that files are fully deleted.

An example of this can be seen in the Photos app:

Click the 'Recently Deleted' header to access the trash in the Photos app.

After 'deleting' photos from the app, the files can remain in this section for up to 40 days before being automatically deleted.

If you are sure you'd like to permanently delete these photos, click 'Delete All' to remove them from your hard drive.

You can use similar steps to empty trash for other apps like iMovie and Mail.

8. Move files into external storage

The majority of the methods above cover how to delete unwanted files to gain space. But what you if want to keep your files?

If you need more space on your Mac, but deleting your files is not an option, you may want to consider investing in external storage.

You can purchase external storage drives pretty cheap nowadays.

The way this works is that you connect your external drive with your Mac via USB cable. The drive then pops up as a Location on your Mac:

You can then drag files from your Mac onto your external drive, or cut/paste them into specific folders on your drive.

Takeaways

These are the most effective steps to make the most of the available space on your Mac in our experience.

There's a lot of information above, but this is not an exhaustive list of everything you can do to clear space on your Mac. We hope that you now have the tools that you need to breathe new life into your Mac or MacBook.

Happy spring cleaning!

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Version 1.5 for MAC OS X 10.3 or higher - 25/04/2008
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Ever since I started making screensavers for Windows, I've had requests for Mac versions. So I decided to go and buy a Mac so I could make Mac OS X screensavers for you guys. Problem is, the Mac cost me a fair amount of cash. So I've made this screensaver shareware. It's only US$9.95 to register and get rid of all the nags that pop-up, and all the intro banners at the start. You'll also be able to download new starships and space fighters to do battle in the Space Wars! Not only that, but you'll be able to download new background scenes aswell instead of just seeing the same one over and over! But more importantly, you'll help support Useless Creations, which means I'll be able to keep developing nifty screen savers for Mac OS X!

So register now to get the full version, help me pay for my Mac, and look forward to more cool 3D screensavers in the future!

How To Download New Space Ships And Backgrounds (Registered Version Only)

To get to the download screen, click on the 'Download New Space Ships' tab on the screen saver Options screen. With the trial version, all you can do on this screen is check which ships and backgrounds are available. With the registered version you can actually download them, all you need to do is follow the steps on screen. Closing the settings sheet while any downloads are in progress will cancel the current download, and of course, you need to be connected to the internet to be able to download new ships.

After downloading a new space ship or background, the screen saver needs to be restarted for the new ship to be available.

The button at the bottom lets you set where the downloaded data files are kept on your machine. The screen saver will create a default directory for you when it runs, however you are welcome to change it. Remember though, if you change the directory the screen saver will not be able to find any ships in the previous directory, and you will need to give any users who are going to use the screen saver permission to at least read from the folder so they can use the data files, and they will need write permission if you want to allow them to download ships aswell.

Because I've been asked a lot, here's a quick note: If you get an error saying 'Download Failed - Error! Cannot Create File http://' it means that it can't save the data file, usually because you do NOT have full read/write access to the folder (as it says you need above). So you need to make sure you have access to that folder it's using, OR you can create a new folder somewhere you know you have full access to, such as under your home directory. Then click that button at the bottom of the settings and tell the screen saver where you new folder is. Then you should be fine.

To see images of each space ship that is available, click the button below:

Release Notes

For millenia the human race lived on a small planet called Earth in an almost constant state of war. They believed they were enlightened, and above violent conflicts for no good reason, and yet their small world was never without war at any point in their history. They fought over such trivial matters as religion, money, and ice cream flavours. No excuse seemed too small for the humans to go to war over.

But above all else, they fought over land. Despite the fact that they killed each other so often, they still managed to breed to the point of mass overpopulation of their little world. So eventually, they had to leave.

And leave they did, forgetting their ravaged world and spreading across the galaxy like a plague. There was so much space for them to live in that they simply ran out of reasons to fight and for the first time in human history they were truly at peace.

Then the invaders came.

An unknown alien force who decided the human race had no right to occupy so much space. Space that they had claimed as their own many centuries earlier. The humans were unlike them, they did not speak their language or share their beliefs, so the aliens did not see any reason to negotiate. The space the humans occupied was their's, so they had to be removed.

Humankind's newfound peace came to an end, and they finally combined to become one united force ready to face their new common enemy.

So once more, war began...

I seriously can't believe how long it's been since I was able to do an update to this screensaver. It's still my all time favourite, and I spend more time watching it than actually working most of the time. From the feedback I've had, I'm not the only one!

So here, finally, is another update. I've added some of the stuff I wanted to do from the start, and fulfilled some requests. So some ships can now fire missiles, or torpedoes, and some ships can have cloaking devices. There's also bigger explosions, come camera changes, and lots of other little stuff.

At the moment the cloaking devices are pretty much restricted to the new fleet in the story, the Pirate Insurgents of Rigel 8. They're a sneaky bunch, hence the cloaking devices. See the website to check out all the new ships, and the extension to the story.

There's also loads of other fleets available from outside the story, so if you haven't checked before, what are you waiting for??? Head to the website right now!

I love this one, but I can't spend the time I'd like on it because not that many people have registered for the full version. The time spent working on it, and the costs involved, mean I can't keep working on it if you don't register. So register now! Tell your friends to register! Then we can all enjoy it!

Enjoy!

USELESS RELEASE NOTES (v1.2)

Another update already?? Well, yeah! I have so many ideas for this thing! If you like it, tell your friends! Tell everyone! Cos unless it becomes more popular quickly I'm going to have to move on and work on something else instead.

Anyway, I had a heap of people email me who didn't like the ships bouncing off each other the way they did. I didn't like it either, but at the time it was the best solution I could put together at the time. So I did a re-write and made it so the ships actually do damage to each other when they hit. It doesn't mean they explode everytime, but they usually do, especially if a fighter happens to fly into the path of a mothership!

I also wanted to make the shields stand out more when they get hit, so they now glow when they take damage which I think looks pretty cool.

Also, due to popular demand, I've made some changes to the camera so each mode isn't so short, and there's now a chance that the camera will follow the same ship until it's destroyed, which adds some continuity to the action.

I've also tweaked the laser range so fighters have more chance of getting some shots off against the big motherships before they're blown away, and there's a heap of other tweaks and bug fixes. Check it out!

Enjoy!

Release Notes (v1.1)

What's this?? A new version already?? Yes! I love this thing, so I started working on the next version as soon as the first was finished.

I'm really surprised by the lack of response to this screensaver since I think it's probably the most impressive thing I've ever made. I've had next to no feedback whatsoever, which is a bit disappointing. But I enjoy it so much that I can't stop watching it.

I think the only feedback I received was about the lack of background. It was just a basic starfield. Well, your wish is my command. I've re-written this thing with some fantastic new backgrounds! Each of them is a work of art, and I've also added lighting effects so the ships are lit by the suns in the background with different colours and intensity. So now when you register you don't just get access to all the great new ships, but you also get access to all these awesome new backgrounds. Check it out! If you have the full version with more than one background installed the background will change each time a ship travels to a new area of space thru hyperspace. Which I think is very cool!

I've also added a heap of new space ship designs, and have a whole lot more to add. So keep checking the website!

Enjoy!

Release Notes (v1.0)

Space Ears Mac Os 11

Those of you who have been visiting Useless Creations for a while may remember an old screen saver I made that I had to take off the website. I wont go into details, but it was a favourite of a lot of people, including me.

Space Ears Mac Os Catalina

So I decided to re-write it from scratch using some great new space ships made by a very talented artist. They look better than any of the old ships, and by re-writing the screen saver I've been able to make it so much more like what I originally envisioned all those years ago.

I probably say this everytime I release a new screensaver, but I love this thing. I've sat and watched it for so long that it's taken 3 times as long to make as it should have. Once it starts I just can't look away!

The ships fly around hunting each other, and when they explode they really explode. It's just so much fun to watch (in my opinion anyway!).

I'm hoping to add a heap of ships available for download from the website (there's already quite a few) so keep checking back for more. There's a mix of big motherships and small space fighters, some with different weapons and some with shields. I've tried to make it versatile so I can add a load of different ships, and I'm thinking of adding things like cloaking devices and stuff in future versions.

Mac Os Versions

Just a few things you should know:
I love this thing, so be kind in your criticism! :)
When a laser blast caused a blue explosion it means it's been absorbed by the shields.
There may be a slight pause when each new ship is loaded, but this only happens the first time a ship arrives.

As always, if you spot any bugs please let me know.

Seriously, if you like space battle stuff, just sit and watch this thing for a while. It's great fun!

Enjoy!

Version History

v1.5 - 25th April, 2008 - Major Update
Some ships can now fire missiles or torpedoes!
Cloaking devices are now available on some ships!
Bigger explosions!
Camera tweaks!
Whole new fleet added to the story.
Loads of new fleets from outside the story on the website.
Lots more tweaks and bug fixes.

v1.2 - 10th August, 2006 - Update
People wanted damage when ships collided, so I've added that as an option.
Added option to have shields glow when the take damage.
Changed some of the camera functions.
Increased range of laser fire for better chances against motherships.
Lots more tweaks and bug fixes.

v1.1 - 24th July, 2006 - Major Update
People wanted backgrounds, so I've added some really cool new backgrounds.
Also added lighting effects so the ships can be lit by the local suns with different colours and intensity.
Added a lens flare effect to go with the new lighting system.
Additional backgrounds are available for download to add to the full version.

Space Ears Mac Os 11

v1.0 - 13th July, 2006 - Original Release
Space ships do battle in a dogfight in deep space!
Ships chase their enemies, but avoid firing on their comrades.
Ships take damage and explode into pieces.
Some ships have shields, which absorb damage until they're depleted.
Motherships patrol the area as well as small star fighters
Additional space ships available for download to add to the full version.

Space Ears Mac Os Catalina

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Space Ears Mac OS