How to clear cache from your Mac

How to remove cache files from your Mac?

The long time usage of your Mac stores cache files. Cache files are basically temporary data stored on your hard drive and used to speed up system process, especially when you perform the same task repeatedly.  For example, if you open Safari browser to access any site, it downloads and stores some photos into cache so that next time you visit the site you don’t have to download the photos again. However, Cache is useful and helps you to be more productive but by the time, they consume a large part of your system drive and become a reason behind slow system performance. To avoid this situation, it is better to clean cache from your Mac. Let’s learn how to do that.

You may easily clean cache manually, without installing any third party application on your Mac. Follow these steps:

• First off all close all the apps if you are using on your Mac.
• Open Finder window and then select “Go to Folder” from the Go menu.

• Now, enter ~/Library/Caches and then hit enter to open this folder.
• Here, you may see different folders either you can select which folders you want to clean or you may select all for clearing all the folders from cache.
• After selecting the folders or files, select “Move to Trash.”
• If you want to remove caches permanently from your computer, you may empty the trash. You need to select files manually for removing them from trash.

This is how you may manually clean cache from your Mac and boost up your system performance.

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Now read: 7 Ways to Free Up Disk Space on Mac OS X