How To Clear Your Cache On a Mac

[@TexasGI47life]

Three years later, your video is still helping out. Thank you, Claude.

[@fireguy-id7ky]

@@TheTrueCopyUniverse five years and one month and i don't use a mac who does even the school stopped using them

[@jesuseltomatero4612]

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[@dbq5614]

7 years later. I'm going to try.... The entire world is under quarantine lockdown because a terrible pandemic, the world is going to hell, economy tooo but I still need to clear my Mac....

[@TexasGI47life]

@@dbq5614 I also downloaded CCleaner which is pretty darn quick.

[@dbq5614]

@@TexasGI47life thanks a lot, I'll check it out !! 😄

[@grzzz2287]

This is by far the most useful tip on clearing the cache on your mac! I managed to clear out over 100,000 useless files and freed up over 300Gb of hard drive. My mac loves me!

[@lizbits9339]

Hi Clause, after watching so many videos on how to fix things on a mac, I remember this video in particular as being a favorite. Here's why, the speed of your voice is perfect, your voice not intimidating nor boring, and you expertise is always perfect. After watching so many videos I just wanted to let you know how great your videos are. Thanks!

[@timgroovy6974]

Make that 7 years later and still helping out. Very well done Claude. Clear instructions and easy to follow visual.

[@DubbzJay]

Claude, I just cleared over 100,000 cached files on my mac. It was taking up 210gb and just bogging down my machine. Thank you for this vid and the clear and concise explanation. So helpful.

[@MarcyUnlimited]

Hello Mr. Pelanne.... Your video helped me a 1000%... I had over 6,600 of trash in the secured trash... Now my system acts like i just purchased it ... Thank You again i just Subscribed.

[@lindafaust655]

I just got rid of more than 90GB. It showed up as "other data" in my flash drive and I wasn't sure what it was. Now I know. And all of my programs and files still work, which was my biggest fear. This made my day. Thank you!

[@Rancholovelazer]

5 years later and this still is a great help. Thanks.

[@sanguinj]

Claude, No matter how old this video is, it is still very useful, like it was for me today. I Just Subscribed to your channel

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Thank you Jorge...I made these videos to avoid forgetting how I did a fix...turns out they are helpful to anyone who needs to solve a problem...I clear my caches once a month... be well

[@marthaaleo22]

Thanks for a great video with clear instructions. You didn’t assume knowledge or needlessly complicate things. It takes a lot of work to do that and make it look easy. Thanks again.

[@richardnamewithheld2029]

Claude, By now I'm sure that you have discovered the three Library files on your Mac. The first is visible in the open directory of the Hard Drive. An other one is in the System folder, also in the open directory of the Hard Drive. It is in fact the only visible file in the System folder, there are many more files there but they are invisible. The third Library is in the User Home folder and is rendered invisible. This is the Library that you make visible by using Finder > Go menu > Go to folder… . The symbol ~ means that you have a File Path that begins at ROOT the symbol / means that you are at your Home Folder Library of course is your destination folder and /Cache is a folder within the Home Library folder. You do a great service to the Mac community by your videos. Keep up the good work

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Richard Name Withheld Richard - Thank you for taking the time to pass on this information. It is most useful and important to know the full context of what is going on. I really appreciate the help. I'm on my way to the genius desk to take care of an iphone problem and will ask them about Slounely's issue. We use the abobe suite and have had no problem so far. Take care.

[@Atrium428]

I never ever comment, but THANK YOU!!!! They constantly find ways to make managing our machines impossible, it's our machines, after all. very frustrating but now super relieved THANK YOU!!! - you cant even find this user-friendly explanation on their site or on the computer even after typing Caches...

[@SteveSteeleSoundSymphony]

To see your User Library hold the Option key while clicking on the Go menu. Library will now be in the menu.

[@socomt5]

I do not have the record… but 18,000 plus files being securely deleted. Very informative.. easy to follow. Thank you for that mac tip.. I'm such a newb and happy to learn what i can

[@hoyos2877]

thanks for the vid man, its been 7 years and it still works i erased 5.2 GB of storage thankks.

[@JamesJeanneret]

Why did I not know about this? I've had my MBP for 7 years. I've upgraded RAM from 2GB to 8GB and the HDD from 256GB to 1TB...all done myself. Lately its been very slow and even freezing. I rang Apple Support and paid AUD$39. There was 24,000+ files in the cache. The lady from Apple Support was very surprised. Thanks for the vid Claude!

[@ClaudePelanne1]

+silverbloke1 Glad the video helped and I'm surprised the person at Apple was not better informed. I learned about this from an Apple genius and it still works. I average anywhere from 15,000 to 45000 files depending on how much I wait in between cache clearing. Thanks for the comment and be well.

[@josephreginayankee]

Thanks once again Claude! This is a saver! You were concise, and slow! The mark of a great professor. You are interested in teaching, not speed to show off your knowledge as others do, and fail to transmit knowledge! Joe and Regina

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Hi jazzfire - Caches simply store pages that load from your own machine to save time. The reason to clear a cache is that there is often some of the cache pages are no longer relevant and take up memory. So clearing a cache is not about losing data since the data in online. I wouldn't worry about losing data by clearing a cache. Hope this helps.

[@ravigwankhede]

Thanks dear Claude for a very imp information which saved net life in various ways. I have watched your video so many times. Ravi.

[@fakmala]

tons of thanks, claude. my mac has been real slow lately (couldn't even load chrome without my cursor turning to rainbow spinning wheel every single step!) and this helped a lot - turned out i have over 41k files to delete.

[@TheGingerFamily8488]

My mac was giving me issues and safari was being wonky... I did this and deleted over 22 thousand files... whoa.... I'll be sure to start doing this once a week! That was insane! Thanks so much for the help!!!.

[@ClaudePelanne1]

You're welcome and glad it helped. Be well.

[@retorik45]

This video was very helpful! My MacBook wasn't responding, I had to go in safe mode and follow your instructions, now it works like new! Thanks a lot for shearing

[@nei259]

Thank you, Claude. After routinely clearing cache and cookies per your video, Cache and Cookies folders are then retained under 'Recent Folders', which is immediately above the 'Go To Folder'. . . hence , a quicker access to 'cache' and 'cookies' for clearing/deletion. Sincerely, 27" iMac 5K retina desktop, macOS Mojave version 10.14.4 updated 04.01.2019. Take care and again thank you

[@suyashseth2000]

AMAZING! I cleared out 9,000+ files. I CAN'T thank you enough xoxo

[@fannyversace]

I cleared over 10,000 files - thank you

[@jgwire]

14,000 for me

[@holymacaroni0825]

Thank you so much Mr. Pellane for posting this! This video has been very helpful for me. I've been a windows user for so long and always maintained my PC using several methods. But after getting my new MAC, I needed to know some simple methods on how to clean my computer. This video definitely is easy to follow and very useful.

[@raf4097]

You are the most legendary person in the face of the earth... Saved me like 2k dollars. I subbed! You thought 5,000 was bad... I deleted 14,000

[@josephreginayankee]

Thank You, very clear, and slow enough to follow and learn! So often the teacher tries to impress us with his knowledge with speed. Alas, we do not learn. So thank you once again! You get an A+! Joe and Regina

[@VinnieCamilleriMusic]

Had my mac since 2010 never done this before cleared over 30 k files thanks

[@tastylemonschris3415]

Thanks Claude one of the best tips I've seen, i just did it and had over 18k items. I never done it since i owned this machine and wow the internet is so much smoother and faster. Why don't people ever mention this? I guess im not that Mac savvy because on a PC its not this in depth to remove cache.

[@anatheawesome69]

thank you king!! it’s deleting over 57000 items and it’s still going, hopefully my computer is faster after this. i’ve never done this and i’ve had my computer for 6 years 😩

[@sajanim]

Thanks a million. My old MacBook Pro was badly overheating, especially when on Facebook. Now it runs as cool as a cuke. Much appreciated.

[@Head2ToeFitness]

Extremely helpful and straightforward...oh and had over 23000...yikes! All better after following your step-by-step instructions! Thnx much!

[@keithbatchelor2348]

Great advice, thanks Claude. It was simple to follow your recommended procedure and it did speed up my Mac afterwards.

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Hi Kent - Great question and I had the same thought. When my machine was really slow I took it in to the genius desk and they told me to add memory, clear the hard drive down under 100 g and clear the cache of the machine. I did all three and my machine worked like a charm. When in doubt go to the mac store and ask the genius. lol. Stay well.

[@JustinMacri007]

In library is it safe to deleat all files? And how do you make tge other folder to go down?

[@smfsaqlain]

Six years later, great help. Thanks

[@godmanstyle9370]

DUDE THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH. HAD AD POPUPS ON SARFI EVER TIME I CLICKED ON A LINK YOU ARE THE BEST

[@mikefraser4513]

Now I know what and where the "tilde" is! As a "layman" I found your description excellent!

[@exwhyz33]

Watched your video - clicked on my Trash and found 3000 files for deletion! Done that - feeling a lot lighter now. Thanks.

[@wickidgrrl]

Thanks Mr. Claude for the helpful video! I had over 5,000 files to delete. Passing on this info to friends!

[@ClaudePelanne1]

wickidgrrl Hi. Thanks for the comment. Yeah files can add up. Do it every so often and it helps to keep your computer running smoothly. Take care.

[@michaeldavis2807]

This was super helpful. Just used it to clean up my MacBook Pro running Mavericks. It runs so much faster. Thank you so much.

[@pacodelucia2010]

Thanks Claude, You helped us alot , i had my mac since 2013 just today that i knew that we can clear caches on mac, Bless You !

[@cenisedavis5109]

Thank you so much for providing great information that worked! Other videos I viewed was basically pitching an app for you to buy. Thanks for helping us out. You've gained a fan and subscriber!

[@EyePleaThe5th]

Good Job my Man. 4 years over due. I thought just by clearing my search history for you-tube, Google etc. and my Cookies solves it all. "Idiota"

[@SCOTTLYNNCO]

Not sure if this is going to free up space for me. But thank you either way, this video was really well done. You're easy to understand and follow. thank you!

[@connorgrace5605]

You are very knowledgeable! I am really glad to see that more people are learning about Mac files. Great tutorial. However, will the download itself go away if you delete it's cashe?

[@saelid9027]

I had over 14k items to delete, it helped a lot New sub for ever

[@fazapops]

Thanks for posting this. I knew there had to be an easier way. You're correct, when I upgraded to Lion, I could not find some of the Cache folders when I would go through Library. Thanks again!

[@drevegas]

thank you so much, i’ve literally been trying figure this out forever, just free’d me up 30gb

[@jazzifire]

Thank you for this! Im just wondering if there are particular caches that you need to keep. Im scared to delete them and then find out later that I shouldn't have! Thanks again!

[@portercarr7197]

Thank you so much! My disc was full and I didn’t know what to do and this saved me over 50 GB.

[@StonecraftCeltic]

Great thanks - freed up a lot of space on my mac. I also the items in my download folder which is also easy to forget to do regularly

[@brainlover1579]

This worked really well on my Mac. Thanks for taking the time to do the video!

[@jadenchao7634]

to that guy who said still works in 2019, it also works in 2020. I was at 40 GB left and now I'm at 72 GB left. It's amazing

[@TheSukhh]

7 years later, this method still works 😚

[@ClaudePelanne1]

yes it does, I just cleared my imac and macbook air,,,

[@TheSukhh]

Claude Pelanne my mac started causing more problems now. Fucked up in this lockdown.

[@alicebennett7663]

Thanks for share! Clearing caches on Mac manually is a common ways.For people who want to save time to clear Mac from time to time, , some tools like MacClean allows users to clear out not only the caches but also cookies with a few clicks.

[@Clockgotbored]

This was super helpful, thank you. : )

[@rem2510]

I have spent months researching into speeding up Macs and found an awesome website at Mels Speed Method (check it out on google)

[@K1NGJ0RDAN1]

Just cleared out over 77,000 files. Thank you! Didn’t know what was up with my iMac. This explains it perfectly. 😂🤣

[@MrTanker10a]

Thanks for a great video. I used to do this on a regular basis until AAPL changed the Library Locations among other things. I am using Yosemite on my MBPro and Lion on my MacPro. Thus making this video an absolute help because I have been out of the Mac Tech Support game for a long time...And my MBPro is crawling especially Emptying Trash. Three Cheers for this video.

[@IndecisiveFella]

Apple has changed the Library locations? I have used Mac OS X since 10.3 and the Library is still where it was back then. Since 10.7 it is just hidden.

[@TawneeLynnMusicServices]

Thank you so much! I had to pause it many times, but figured it out... :)

[@dentboy100]

Thanks had 37,000 items in it, hope this now helps my mac faster, cheers

[@djvenomjamaica]

GREAT VIDEO 17,000 files cleared. thanks a million

[@dylangoldman2427]

Wow. I had just under 10,000 files in my Cache. Thanks, Claude.

[@G4XGaming]

I watch this video back every few weeks and do this, the last time i did it was about 3 weeks ago and I already had over 23,000 files, imagine if I had never done it? mind boggling

[@20m10]

Thank you so much. First time in five years that I've cleared the cache on my computer over 30,000 files lol

[@MikeAllsorts]

First time I had seen this and tried it with two of my four Macs and it has helped by getting ride of a few gigabytes worth of crap thanks Claude

[@25megandrean]

Thank you so much, you makes my storage clean and I get my 9 GB free space more :))

[@ClaudePelanne1]

You're welcome Baudi. I'm glad the video helped. Be well and thanks for the comment.

[@blueion4019]

Thank you! I'm running MacoS high Sierra and this still works! My iMac is blazing fast now

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Hi Apple2 Tech - I have a new imac running Sierra and the cache clearing still works like a charm. Glad it helped.

[@LGTeamGenius]

yo i had 19,000 files! omg THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Hi LG - Thanks for the comment and congrats on unloading 19000 files!

[@brentwoodfield1538]

Seemed to work OK. Like you said, I could not delete some of them out of trash, so I rebooted and then I could. Puts some the folders back. They were a lot smaller though. My old iMac seems to be running better. Thanks for the video. Brent

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Brent Woodfield Hi Brent. My iMac is an 08 and still keeps ticking. I reboot when some files don't empty from the trash and that does the trick. Thanks for the comment and glad the video helped.

[@channo786]

Great video Claude Pelanne, Thanking you sir:) I had 45,000files, though it is slow process once you decide to securely empty the trash can. But, Totally worth it. This is my 1st time ever doing this. Also, Want to let people know, You should also periodically run Disk utility and run Verify and repair permissions too. It helps with any Apps making mess on your systems installation.

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Hi Kim - sounds like a connectivity problem with your provider or internet modem. Try shutting every thing down. Reboot your Internet modem from your provider and then rebooting. You should also empty the cache on your computer and the cache of your browser. See if that works. Good luck. PS.. it may be a problem with an extension in your browser. you can turn off all the extensions and then see if the problem goes away. If it does you turn them on one by one to find the culprit. That's it.

[@Prawnchowmein]

O my god you are the best 19k deleted, my iMacs back to life now why on earth haven't I been told this in the mac shop thanks so much drinks on me when I see you.

[@dnwoko96]

I cleared 80 GB off of my computer! This was amazing :) Thank you so much!

[@LouSanderson]

Thank you so much your explanation is the best I found on KZbin

[@CowboyJojosAdventures]

Awesome, thank you. Will keep this as a reference for when I need to clean my Cache folders.

[@AnotherWorld_amv]

Thanksssss, I had +20000 files to delete I'm very grateful

[@zachdavis8499]

Glad i found this. Deleted over 9K files on my Macbook pro, Think that Should make it a little faster now.

[@bazhinovao]

2019 and this video is saving my mac! Thank you so much for this information :)

[@streetninja510]

cache is used to store all the data needed to run everything on your computer. different information that helps your computer run faster. however, it does take up space on your computer(HD not RAM). if you are really desperate for HD space, you can clear the cache

[@jolie6038]

deleted 115,51 GB from my Mac. im so happy, I had no storage and it was all 150GB worth of "system" and I didn't know how to get rid of it. this saved me soo much stress.

[@StephenLoweFinland]

Thank you. Looks like it may help. Clearing nearly 200,000 files for the past two days, with Google Chrome crashing endlessly.

[@ClaudePelanne1]

+Stephen Lowe Hi Stephen- make sure you clear the cache in Chrome as well. That will clear out the garbage in the browser cache.

[@thecastleofglass]

Thanks for the video, Claude! Very helpful, easy to understand. Goob job.

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Hi thecastleleofglass - Glad the video helped and thanks for the message. Be well.

[@Cypherdiaz951]

Thanks for making this quick and easy @Claude Pelanne

[@mirulhazim]

is it ok to delete all the caches?

[@ClaudePelanne1]

Merul Hazim Caches hold temporary files that allow you to load web pages faster. However over time some web sites and software programs are updated and load in new temp files. Sometimes old cached files can conflict with updated ones and it takes time for the program to find the relevant temp file. Thats why tech support will clear caches before they try to solve a problem. Often clearing cache files is all that is needed. PS you also want to clear the cache of your browser from time to time. Hope this helps.

[@mirulhazim]

thank you so much!

[@IronhorseMike]

I'm running OS X 10.9.5 on my older '08 iMac. Thank you for this helpful How-To. Got through the first ~/Library/Cache purge, tons of files purged. Went to the second one and a pop up tells me most of these files are required by the OS. Have you dealt with this yet?

[@ClaudePelanne1]

IronhorseMike Yes. I leave whatever the Operating System requires.

[@chelle315]

Holy hell!! I had over 16,000 files!! Thanks for the tutorial...Mac is running alot better now. :) Thumbs up!

[@kristinr8280]

Good lord I had 16,900 files. THANK YOU for showing me how to delete them all to give my computer more space!

[@glebkhachatryan242]

Thank you so much, I had about 4000 items that useless. Thank you!

[@lelanamackey1849]

Cleared over 11K files. Thank you

[@amypatrick5064]

Woah, thanks for this Claude! Doing this on my iMac for the first time now... just under 55,000 files?!? Thanks!

[@HedgeyOfficial]

you serious... wow thats a serious amount of files. bet you noticed the improvement in performance

[@thebuzzontvshow]

you perfectly helped me. You just saved me 50 dollars i was going to spend on ram your a god sent

[@NathanLarson01]

Although it said some were in use, That did clear out about 15gb of space. Thanks Claude (I'm running Yosemite, theres no safe empty thing on the trash just click the normal empty trash)

[@ClaudePelanne1]

HI Nathan- To get to the secure empty trash you hold down the command key simultaneous to clicking the trash. The thing is the secure empty trash takes a long time to process, at least on my imac running Yosemite. So I also do a simple empty trash if I want to save time. This doesn't clear the sectors of the data but simply overwrites them. The secure empty trash will clear the data completely but it takes more time. Thanks for the comment.

[@NathanLarson01]

Claude Pelanne Yea haha didn't hear u say the hold down command the first time in the video.. didn't have my listening ears on :P It works, and thanks. My mac was FULL and i didn't know why.. turns out it was a video that I made that was 10 mins long and 50GB!

[@RodneyBarnes]

Thank you very much. Had over 6,000 files. Very helpful.

[@kathleendoyle3958]

holy moly! 26,000 files. is that a record. Thanks so much!!!

[@rokkon6936]

Thanks man. i had 16000 cache files. I AM HEALTHY NOW

[@piyakornk2469]

Love the way you explain things. Many thanks!!

[@truthnfreedomseeker]

Great tip, thanks! I just deleted 108,000 items from my cache! Wow!

[@susanvlach4616]

Thank you for making this video. . .I followed it step by step, and was successful!

[@andyreid6999]

thanks I was wondering how to do this as I saw someone mention it on tv big help