![]() Most software you purchase can be downloaded fresh, or a full copy is downloaded with each update. If you do, copy it elsewhere so that you know it’s available. I’d argue that if you don’t need a file after installing software, delete it, and empty the trash. OmniDiskSweeper can help you find and delete large files from anywhere on your Mac, including your graveyard of a Downloads folder. For online backups, it’s more you’re uploading and storing remotely. Even though an inert downloaded file only needs to be stored once with any software or service that creates a base set of files and then incremental differences later-including Time Machine-it still occupies space. But it does impose a burden on your backups. If you have a large enough drive, you might not care about deletion. WhatSize ($30), which includes de-duplication as part of its toolkit, and allows “hard linking,” a Unix method of making multiple file-system links to one set of data, reducing storage usage without effectively deleting the point that a file existed at in the original folder structure. WhatSize is great at finding duplicates, even if they have different filenames, and it can weed out files with the same name that aren’t duplicates, too. After finding copies, you can choose how or if to remove overlaps. Only byte-identical files are matched as duplicates. Removing duplicates: You have a variety of software that finds and removes duplicates to choose from, all of which analyzes the file-it doesn’t rely on the file name or other information. A converse option is to standardize on OS X’s HFS+ and use ![]() NTFS handles OS X files just fine, and you’ll still be able to mount the drive on a Windows system. Paragon Software Group’s NTFS for Mac, NTFS is likely the best format to standardize on. (Later, erase your old USB drives, and donate them to a charity if you no longer need them!)įile system: Given that this reader is dealing with Windows files and wrote that he already has You should name those descriptively, if they aren’t already, so you know to which drive they correspond. This will create a folder with the entire contents. To keep drives’ content distinct, I recommend dragging the entire mounted drive volume into the new disk.
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