Guides

How to get disk space back on a Mac by hand, with the commands each tool provides. No app required.

• How to clear System Data on a Mac

  What macOS counts as System Data, which parts you can safely clear, the exact commands for each, and what to leave alone.

• Looking for a CleanMyMac alternative?

  An honest comparison of CleanMyMac alternatives for freeing disk space: free open-source tools, DaisyDisk, and DiskCity, with what each is good at.

• DaisyDisk alternatives: seeing and fixing a full Mac

  DaisyDisk shows where your space went. Here's when that's all you need, when a free tool will do, and when you want something that also cleans safely.

• How to delete Ollama models and free disk space

  Find which Ollama models are using your disk, remove them with ollama rm, and where LM Studio and Hugging Face keep their models on a Mac.

• Docker filling your Mac's disk? How to get the space back

  Why Docker Desktop's disk image keeps growing on a Mac, how to see what's inside with docker system df, and which prune commands are safe.