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The new Optimise Storage feature helps you to deal with junk like duplicates, old email
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attachments and downloads, and automatically sifts through them to delete the files or
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move them to the cloud. It's one of macOS Sierra's best features, and here's how you can use it to your advantage
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To get started, click on the Apple logo in the top left side of the screen, and click
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the About This Mac option. After the window opens, select the Storage tab to view a breakdown of your storage setup
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Next click the Details button on the right hand side. Optimise Storage presents four different options
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Store in iCloud, which moves photos and videos to iCloud to save room on your Mac
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Optimise Storage, which removes previously viewed movies and TV shows. Erase Trash Automatically, which automatically empties your trash after a file has been there
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for 30 days. And Reduce Clutter, which lets you review and delete older documents, a bit like various
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third party app cleaners. Store in iCloud is only going to make sense if you're willing to pay, or already paying
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Apple for extra iCloud storage, since the 5GB that the company gives you as a taster
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will vanish in no time. Optimise Storage is as good as you would have hoped based on the WWDC demo
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Automatically deleting any TV shows or films that you've already watched, along with email
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attachments is the kind of thing that saves an enormous amount of space
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It can also be undone very easily if you purchase through iTunes
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Once you have confirmed that you want to optimise storage, macOS Sierra will take care
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of everything else. Erase Trash is fairly self-explanatory, although it's a neat touch for anyone who lets their
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rubbish pile up for months, or even years, without doing anything about it
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Finally, Reduce Clutter allows you to jump to the largest files stored on your Mac, so
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that you can play judge, jury and executioner regarding their right to stay on your machine
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Once your largest files have been identified, the Reduce Clutter feature makes it easy to
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erase files, by simply hovering over the one you want to dispatch, and then clicking
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X for delete or the magnifying glass icon to locate the file within Finder
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As one final added tip, you can make sure to check within iOS files by clicking the
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tab on the left hand side of the screen. This is particularly useful since iTunes stores all of your iOS backups, taking up a ton of
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space and often creating duplicate backups over time. Go through the list and work out whether something is an unneeded backup based on the date it
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was first created. Well, that's it for this video, but if you found it useful, go ahead and hit that like
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