Spring Cleaning Your Mac Article 3 Moving It off the hard drive without causing more problems
Spring Cleaning Your Mac Article 3 Moving It off the hard drive without causing more problems Now that you�ve identified your space hogs, what do you do with them? I suggest these steps: � 1. Copy them over to an external hard drive so that you don�t accidentally delete one you really wanted. 2. Decide which files and apps you don�t want on your boot drive. 3. Delete them with care, using the correct procedures. Think Before Hitting the Delete Key! 4. If you do not want to delete them, decide where to archive them for future reference.� 5. Remember, your goal is to ensure you have at least 20% of your hard drive free for the use of OS X itself.� � Copying Files to an External Hard Drive and the Choices it involves� You have three choices for copying files over to an external hard drive: 1. The easy way. Just clone the fat hard drive to a bigger external hard drive. You can use at least two different utility programs for this� 2. Picking and choosing which files and folders to copy over...