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How do i free up space on my mac?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1122070" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>If you emptied the trash, the space they were taking up on your drive is now available as free space. There is nothing else you need to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p>(Someone is confusing you with all the technical details you don't need to worry about. Yes, the files are still there until the space they were written to gets overwritten by something else. But, that space is not being counted as used space. It is now free space. The only way you can even retrieve any of those files at this point would be to purchase a data recovery software (at around $100 or more) or send the drive out to a data recovery expert at the cost of possibly a couple of thousand dollars or more.)</p><p></p><p>So, once again, all you have to do is delete and empty the trash to free up space on your drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1122070, member: 24160"] If you emptied the trash, the space they were taking up on your drive is now available as free space. There is nothing else you need to do. (Someone is confusing you with all the technical details you don't need to worry about. Yes, the files are still there until the space they were written to gets overwritten by something else. But, that space is not being counted as used space. It is now free space. The only way you can even retrieve any of those files at this point would be to purchase a data recovery software (at around $100 or more) or send the drive out to a data recovery expert at the cost of possibly a couple of thousand dollars or more.) So, once again, all you have to do is delete and empty the trash to free up space on your drive. [/QUOTE]
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