How to Free Up Disk Space on Mac and Windows

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If you've reached this help article, you may be running out of hard drive space on your computer's primary "main" hard drive, where your user account data is stored. iTunes stores iPhone backups in the user account data section, as do most third party apps, like our Decipher Tools software!

This article contains some tips I usually give to our customers to free up hard drive space on the primary hard drive.

Also, if you need more drive space for using Decipher TextMessage, you may instead find [these instructions for storing your Decipher TextMessage data, including backups made in Decipher TextMessage, to an external drive] helpful.

Free up Disk Space on Mac

To free up space on my own mac, I like to start by deleting stuff from the Downloads folder.

  1. Open Finder
  2. From the Go menu, select Downloads.
  3. This folder contains files you've downloaded while web browsing. Delete items you no longer need, and then empty the trash.

That will usually get me some good mileage.

Also, you may find Apple's help article on checking and freeing up drive space on your Mac helpful!

Free up Disk Space on Windows

I like to start with these before moving on to "larger" more permanent things like uninstalling programs you don't use.