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I find that Mail can be a memory hog once your mail archive grows beyond a certain size (big, but I don’t know how big). (Hint: I often find rogue websites that are simply devouring huge amounts of memory in a Safari tab are to blame for temporary performance flaws). You’ll find way more information than most users need, but if you do see any items that are eating up memory you should close them. This application is your friend and will show you any programs that may be active on your Mac which are eating up processor (CPU) or memory time. Tap Command and Space and then type Activity Monitor and hit Return.

Now enable Optimize Storageand Empty Trash AutomaticallyĪnd browse through the bigger ones, deleting those items you no longer need.

If you are running High Sierra or later then do use this feature: Be wary not to delete an Apple app without absolutely double-checking it is fine to do so. Non-Apple apps you don’t use? Images you don’t need? Documents and other items eating up disk space? Back up to an external drive or cloud-based service and then delete them. #15: Use Apple’s storage management tools The solution? Tidy them, delete stuff you don’t need, and/or use an app like Declutter, which does what Mojave does on older Macs. I love Mojave because it keeps my Desktop tidy and because I know that (particularly on older Mac operating systems) each one of those Desktop icons use up a little memory, which has a small but (eventually) noticeable impact on performance. This isn’t the oldest Mac around #14: Sort your Desktop Though do make sure to save everything first. Solution? Quit the apps you are not using, or Force Quit and Restart your whole system to flush all the contents of your Mac’s memory. Even the ones that are active in the background. You may need to enter some passwords again, but thankfully you have already enabled Keychain in iCloud, right? #13: Close unused appsĪpps use memory too.

Now in Safari look to the new to you Develop item in the Menu and select Empty Caches in the dropdown list. Open Safari>Preferences>Advanced and enable Show Develop Menu in Menu bar.

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They eat memory too and are often full of nasty ads trackers. Oh, and if you are using lots of browser extensions, get rid of most of them.

Try to close those Safari browser tabs when you are done using them. When you have multiple windows open you will eventually hit performance problems, particularly on older Macs equipped with limited RAM. Now tap Login Items and take a look at the apps you have starting up there.Ĭheck the box by each app to get rid of these and your Mac will start up faster. If the latter then you should jump inside of your System Preferences>Users & Groups and take a look inside your User account (you may need to unlock this using the padlock at the bottom left). #10: Cut those app launchesĭoes your Mac launch a number of apps when it starts up? Do you always need to use them, or only sometimes? The user interface will get a little boring, but everything should work a little better. Open System Preferences>Accessibility, open the Display tab and ensure the following are ticked: Give it a tiny performance boost by opening System Preferences>Accessibility>Reduce Transparency.

We may need more transparency at the top, but the Mac does not. In this one case the Mac does not reflect our politics. These little changes can help boost an ancient Mac.

Uncheck automatically hide and show the Dock.

Turn Minimize windows using to Scale effect.

If you use the Dock (switch it off in System Preferences>Dock) there are a few items you can change:

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#6: And update your appsĭon’t forget to update your apps, too.

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#5: Put photos in the cloudĪsk yourself which is cheaper: An extension to your iCloud storage so you can put all your images in the cloud, or a new Mac? Or use Dropbox? Bottom line: Store your images in the cloud and on an external drive and use all that free disk space productively, while enjoying a slightly faster Mac. One more thing: If you are running OS X El Capitan or later there is no need to do this, as this kind of repair already happens automatically in the background.

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This runs an application that checks your Mac’s disk system for errors (such as misfiled software or moribund system calls) fixes these and gets things working again. In the application that appears select your Mac volume and then tap First Aid. Tap Command-Space and type ‘Disk Utility’, tap Return.