Mac System Files Growing
File system formats available in disk utility on mac apple file system apfs.
Mac system files growing. Select items in the sidebar to see information about each item. Open it under space lens module first click the yellow. The file breakdown below indicates that some. Click the file menu and select load file system from device it will automatically locate the connected drive and you can load it.
Choose one of the following mac os extended file system formats for compatibility with mac computers. Though we rarely reboot our macs around here rebooting a mac will almost always free up a fair amount of disk space simply because it flushes system caches some app caches installs system updates and perhaps more significantly the virtual memory swap files and sleep image files. System information opens to a system report for your mac. Library logs is your current mac user account s user specific application log folder library logs is the system wide application log folder and var log generally contains logs for low level system services.
Download cleanmymac and install the app on your mac. On the client side for instance which as a whole grew 9 3 percent in 2010 mac os was the fastest growing subsegment in 2010 even though windows was still the largest client os player. The applications folder contains all your applications. You ll see the contents of the hfs drive in the graphical window.
To use hfsexplorer connect your mac formatted drive to your windows pc and launch hfsexplorer. They contain stuff that your mac needs in order to work properly. For example the hardware section shows your mac serial number the memory section shows how much ram is installed in each internal memory slot and the software section shows which startup disk boot volume your mac is using. The two folders called library and system are not very interesting for beginners.
The latter two can grow quite large if you rarely reboot a mac. To view the system log file click system log to browse different application specific logs look through the other folders here.