Files & Storage

Scan a folder or disk, understand size totals, and identify large branches without deleting files automatically.

Choose a scan location, apply size and age criteria, and review large or inactive personal files safely.

Adjust file-size criteria to balance scan time, result volume, and potential storage savings.

Scan for duplicate files, choose which copies to preserve, and avoid removing files required by applications or projects.

Control whether small files are compared and understand how the threshold affects scan duration and potential savings.

Scan an image folder and compare bursts, edits, crops, and exposures without confusing similarity with duplication.

Include or exclude small images, thumbnails, and previews by changing the photo-size threshold.

Use Space Analyzer and focused file searches to understand where your storage went.

Review installers, archives, documents, media, and temporary transfers while preserving files that exist only in Downloads.

Locate screenshots, preserve evidence and references, and remove temporary captures without losing important context.

Understand placeholders, downloaded copies, synchronization, and safe removal when a folder is managed by a cloud service.

Explain logical size, allocated storage, packages, links, sparse files, snapshots, and changing scan totals.

Answers about large files, duplicates, similar photos, cloud placeholders, external disks, thresholds, and storage totals.

Understand created, modified, added, and access-related dates before judging whether a file is old.

Understand file-system structures that can make storage totals, duplicate results, and recovered space surprising.

Understand large bundles, sparse disks, snapshots, active machines, and why displayed size may not equal recoverable space.

Avoid changing managed library packages directly and use Photos to remove, export, or optimize library content.

Identify old iPhone and iPad backups while preserving the only recovery point for a device or deleted data.

Confirm extracted contents, integrity, encryption, and source availability before deleting ZIP and other archive files.

Analyze accessible storage while understanding that removal and some metadata operations cannot modify the disk.

Use a narrow mounted share and account for latency, server permissions, snapshots, links, and disconnections.

Let Time Machine manage backup history and avoid deleting internal backup files through general file-cleaning tools.

Identify dotfiles and application-managed hidden data without assuming that invisibility makes a file unnecessary.

Distinguish small references from their target files and avoid breaking workflows that depend on stable paths.

Understand placeholders, application structure, hidden contents, permissions, and synchronized folders before removing an apparently empty directory.