
The Trash in Mac OS X is like Recycle Bin in Windows operating system. Just check the disk space before and after reboot to see the difference. That’s why OS X reboot could have an effect on the amount of free space on the hard drive. Many temporary and cache files – which have been stored in their specific locations on the hard drive – will be removed in the reboot process. It is especially true in case a long period of time has been passed since the last restart. Sometimes just restarting you Mac computer would free up lots of extra disk space.


Here are some of the easies methods to free up disk space on your OS X system: Method 1 – Rebooting the system Need extra disk space on the Mac OS computer but don’t know how to get it? The system runs slowly due to most of the hard drive space taken up by installed applications? Try these methods to free up disk space on Mac OS X computer.
