Emptying Your Mac Trash: Things You Need to Know

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This article would give you things you need to know if you would like to delete your Mac’s trash.

What is Mac Trash Bin?
Trash bin is Mac’s version of Windows Recycle Bin. Trash saves all your deleted files before being completely lost. All your deleted files go to your trash. These files accumulate through time if not deleted. These files also take up space in your hard drive.

What is its purpose?
The main purpose of trash is back up. Before being completely deleted, files go first to your trash. This is the back up system for Mac. It stays in the trash until you decide to clean up your trash. For files you have accidentally deleted, trash is very helpful.

Why clean up trash?
Though trash files are supposed to be deleted, they still take up space in your hard drive. Spaces on your Mac can probably still be used for other important files. In cases where your Mac’s memory space seems low, it is always needed to empty trash Mac especially those which aren’t needed anymore – trash. Freeing up space in your trash not only gives room for other important files but it also speeds up your Mac.

Here are the steps that you can follow to empty trash Mac:
• Back up your trash files. Though trash serves as a back up file, it is always safe to have a back up for it. You may never know what you will need in the future.
• Click anywhere in your desktop and go to Finder.
• Click Trash icon in the Finder. The finder will display all your files saved in your trash.
• Make sure that you want to get rid of these files. Once deleted, it would be very hard to recover.
• Go back to Finder menu and choose “Empty Trash”.
• Click ‘OK’ button. You have now emptied your trash.
Just follow these simple guidelines. You can now empty trash Mac easily.

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