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First you need to see how much room is left on the hard drive. You can do this by opening My Computer and right clicking on whatever hard drive you want and then click properties. This will bring up a window that shows a pie graph and the exact amount of space taken up in gigabytes. You can see an example in the attached image. Used space is in blue and free space is in pink.

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Determining how much hard drive space you have left depends a little on the version of OS X you are running. In Mountain Lion, there is a handy graph that you can view if you choose Apple Menu, About This Mac, and then click the More Info button. Instead of a side bar giving you information regarding your hard drive, when you use this method a dialogue box will pop up with a pie chart illustrating information about your hard drive. The pie chart will show you the total capacity of the drive and the total amount of hard drive space used. Before you install macOS Mojave, be it on your second Mac, your daily driver Mac, or on a new partition, backup your hard drive. Use Time Machine or your favorite backup utility, but have a recent backup before doing anything listed below.

Above the pie chart, it says the exact amount of gigabytes for each of those. If it's under 50% full, you should be good. Anything above 75% used up is getting pretty full. If it's over 90%, you definitely need to do something about it.

In the attached example, it's 78% full so this drive could use some cleaning up. First, click on the Disk Cleanup button shown in the attached image. This will bring up a window that says 'Disk Cleanup is calculating how much space you will be able to free up on' and then the drive letter. It says it may take a few minutes to complete and they aren't kidding. Depending on your hard drive's speed, the number of files, and the amount of space taken up, it could take a half an hour or longer but it's usually under 10 minutes.

Once it's finally done, it will come up with a bunch of areas that have unnecessary files that you can delete. Most of them are extremely insignificant compared to the file compression option. But I'll go in order. Downloaded Program Files you should just leave alone because you need some of those. Temporary Internet Files you should leave unchecked for now because I'll come back to that later.

The recycling bin is up to you. You may want to check if anything important is in there before wiping it out. Temporary Files you should get rid of because any program that created them knows that they're liable to be deleted at any time so they can handle it. They're basically just junk files. Web Client/Publisher Temp Files is so small it doesn't matter but if it's not 0, check it. Next is Compress Old Files.

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This one is usually huge. The amount is in kilobytes so 500,000 would be 500 megabytes and 8,500,000 would be 8.5 gigabytes. I think the default setting is if a file hasn't been accessed in 50 days, it will be compressed. A compressed file takes slightly longer to open than it would if it wasn't compressed but it takes up less room on the hard drive.

You won't notice a slowdown most of the time but because there is a slight performance loss, you should only check that option if you're really desperate to save a lot of hard drive space. Next there's the option for catalog files for the content indexer. It's complicated to explain but you don't need them so check that option too. If you didn't choose to compress files, it should be done in a few minutes after you press ok. If you did choose the compression option, it may take hours to compress every old file it finds. It's definitely a worthwhile thing to do though if you need space badly. When the process is completed, take another look at the pie chart to see how the storage situation looks now.

Speaking of compression, if you're at 95-99% full and you're totally desperate to free up a ton of room, there is an option to compress every single file on the entire hard drive. Right click on the drive in My Compute and click properties so it brings up the pie chart window.

Under the chart, it has a checkbox that says 'Compress drive to save disk space.' Check it and click ok if you really want to do this. Only do it if it's absolutely necessary though because it will slow down your computer noticeably. Remember that temporary internet files option I said to skip earlier? Well time to go take care of it permanently.

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In short, temporary internet files are every webpage and graphic and basically everything else you load in your web browser. It downloads them all the first time you go to a website and keeps them all on your hard drive so the next time you go to that site, it can load it off your hard drive instead of having to re-download it all. That makes the page load faster and saves bandwidth for the website owner. To delete some of them and shrink the size allotted to keep these files, open your web browser. If you use anything but Internet Explorer 7, you're on your own because that's all I'm going to describe this process for.