Reclaim Disk Space on a Mac by Periodically Clearing Out ~/Downloads
See that screenshot? That’s my Macs Downloads folder measuring in at a whopping 26.18GB and begging for deletion. I’m a pretty savvy individual but I’ve somehow neglected to periodically delete the contents of ~/Downloads and it grew to include over 7,000 files and consume 10% of my overall disk space.
Here’s the worst part about this: the majority of that space was taken up by music files, including songs that have already been added to iTunes. In other words I needlessly had two copies of tons of music. Oops.
The moral of the story here is don’t forget to check on your ~/Downloads folder from time to time, it grows a lot more than you’d expect. If you want a super fast way to do this, this tip is great: hit Command+Spacebar to enter Spotlight, type “Downloads” then hit Command+i to bring up the Get Info window.
so to keep it minimal: we should delete some files if they take up so much diskspace
btw there is an option in itunes for not duplicating media files once they are added
By “downloads” he means the folder you keep your porn in.
26GB?? how does that happen? LOL you must be downloading a lot of … something
So, don’t use a Downloads folder at all. Send everything to your Desktop – that will quickly remind you to Trash un-needed files!
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I added this to my crontab:
0 * * * * find /Users/mreys/Library/Logs -mtime +30 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;
I also added the following to my crontab to get rid of my mail downloads (they remain there even if you immediately open the attachments, they don’t go to /var/tmp or something)
0 * * * * find “/Users/mreys/Library/Mail Downloads” -mtime +7 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;
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