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I was able to format the backup, partition equally for using one partition as Time Machine backup and the other partition as bootable pristine El Capitan when I get the installer done at a certified Mac service shop in my neck of the woods.

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If you're still running the good old OS X Capitan, now you know how to push it a little bit so it runs faster.Thank you. You can use these tools to run maintenance scripts, find memory leaks and do the tweaks on your own. In the latest version of it, you can find a special group of tools, called Speed, which includes Optimization and Maintenance. This app is notarized by Apple and has gradually grew into one of the classic Mac apps. You can go over each step to speed up El Capitan, or you can keep it fast with CleanMyMac X. After downloading CleanMyMac X, freeing up memory is… Well, free.

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If you don't want to use the Activity Monitor or Terminal commands each time you need to free up some RAM, you can download CleanMyMac X (a link to the free version) and do it with just one click instead.

Give your system a moment to process the command. When you start running out of memory, just clean it manually with Terminal.

Virtual Memory relies on your Mac's hard drive and is so slow that you don't want to get it involved. If Physical Memory and Memory Used have nearly equal values, it means your Mac will start using Virtual Memory soon. Check out your memory usage in the Activity Monitor (find it with Spotlight) by clicking on the Memory tab. Usually Macs are pretty handy with memory management, but sometimes you just have to give them a direction.

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You'll need to enter the admin password to execute the command. Sudo dscacheutil -flushcache sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder say cache flushed To open Terminal, open Spotlight and type in Terminal, or find it by clicking on the Applications folder and then clicking on Utilities. You're going to need the Terminal for this. When you flush the DNS cache, what you're doing is removing old cache entries that translate internet domain names () into IP addresses.

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It's also much easier (and faster) with an app, you can take a look at how to clean caches on Mac OS X.

Repeat 1 and 2, but replace ~/Library/Caches with /Library/Caches (simply lose the ~ symbol).

Important: remove the insides of these folders, but not the folders themselves.

Type in ~/Library/Caches and hit “enter” to proceed to this folder.

Open a Finder window and select “Go to Folder” in the Go menu, at the top of the screen.

Trimming down your system includes cleaning cache and temporary files, and flushing DNS. You can delete the files you don't need directly from the app in just a few clicks. It has a special module that looks exactly for large and old files and sorts them for you. However, there are apps that can, such as CleanMyMac X. This process takes a while because your Mac can't arrange files by both size and date at once. It might give you a hint on the folders that occupy the most space and need cleaning. Now click on Date Last Opened in the name of the column and you get a list starting with the oldest files you have.ĭon't forget to look at the file type distribution in the Storage tab. If you'd like to arrange them by date to find files you haven't opened in a while (maybe you forgot they were even there!), you can do this by following the steps above, and then changing arrange by Size, to arrange by Date Last Opened.

Arrange your files and folders by date.

Now all your files are arranged from the biggest to the smallest. Now choose Sort by Size and Arrange by Size. To do it: open Finder, click on All My Files in the left menu bar (if you don't see it there, press Command+Shift+F (?+?+F), and then click View in the top menu bar and select Show View Options.

Arrange your files and folders by size to find the biggest.

It might take a while, so here's a piece of advice on how to approach it. If you see the top bar getting full, like in the screenshot below, it's time to clean up some space. To find out how cluttered yours is, click on the main Apple menu in the top left corner and choose About This Mac > Storage.

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One of the reasons a Mac gets slow is a full hard drive. Check the unnecessary apps and click.ĭon't worry, if you accidentally remove something useful, just add it back by clicking and choosing it from the Applications folder. To stop them from launching on startup, go to System Preferences, choose Users & Groups and then click your username. This could be one of the reasons El Capitan running slow. And you probably don't need most of them at that moment. When you turn your Mac on, it typically launches a dozen apps at once.