How To Clear Your Cache On a Mac 

This is by far the most useful tip on clearing the cache on your mac! I managed to clear out over 100,000 useless files and freed up over 300Gb of hard drive. My mac loves me!

Hi Clause, after watching so many videos on how to fix things on a mac, I remember this video in particular as being a favorite. Here's why, the speed of your voice is perfect, your voice not intimidating nor boring, and you expertise is always perfect. After watching so many videos I just wanted to let you know how great your videos are. Thanks!

To see your User Library hold the Option key while clicking on the Go menu. Library will now be in the menu.

Three years later, your video is still helping out. Thank you, Claude.

This video was very helpful! My MacBook wasn't responding, I had to go in safe mode and follow your instructions, now it works like new! Thanks a lot for shearing

Make that 7 years later and still helping out. Very well done Claude. Clear instructions and easy to follow visual.

5 years later and this still is a great help. Thanks.

Claude, I just cleared over 100,000 cached files on my mac. It was taking up 210gb and just bogging down my machine. Thank you for this vid and the clear and concise explanation. So helpful.

Thanks for a great video with clear instructions. You didn’t assume knowledge or needlessly complicate things. It takes a lot of work to do that and make it look easy. Thanks again.

Thanks once again Claude! This is a saver! You were concise, and slow! The mark of a great professor. You are interested in teaching, not speed to show off your knowledge as others do, and fail to transmit knowledge! Joe and Regina

Thank you so much Mr. Pellane for posting this! This video has been very helpful for me. I've been a windows user for so long and always maintained my PC using several methods. But after getting my new MAC, I needed to know some simple methods on how to clean my computer. This video definitely is easy to follow and very useful.

Great advice, thanks Claude. It was simple to follow your recommended procedure and it did speed up my Mac afterwards.

Can i delete the mobile application folder of my mac? What would it do to all my apps on my iPod and iPad and iPhones?

Thank you so much! My disc was full and I didn’t know what to do and this saved me over 50 GB.

I just got rid of more than 90GB. It showed up as "other data" in my flash drive and I wasn't sure what it was. Now I know. And all of my programs and files still work, which was my biggest fear. This made my day. Thank you!

Claude, No matter how old this video is, it is still very useful, like it was for me today. I Just Subscribed to your channel

I do not have the record… but 18,000 plus files being securely deleted. Very informative.. easy to follow. Thank you for that mac tip.. I'm such a newb and happy to learn what i can

Six years later, great help. Thanks

Thanks Claude, You helped us alot , i had my mac since 2013 just today that i knew that we can clear caches on mac, Bless You !

thank you so much, i’ve literally been trying figure this out forever, just free’d me up 30gb

thanks for the vid man, its been 7 years and it still works i erased 5.2 GB of storage thankks.

Thank you, Claude. After routinely clearing cache and cookies per your video, Cache and Cookies folders are then retained under 'Recent Folders', which is immediately above the 'Go To Folder'. . . hence , a quicker access to 'cache' and 'cookies' for clearing/deletion. Sincerely, 27" iMac 5K retina desktop, macOS Mojave version 10.14.4 updated 04.01.2019. Take care and again thank you

AMAZING! I cleared out 9,000+ files. I CAN'T thank you enough xoxo

Thanks dear Claude for a very imp information which saved net life in various ways. I have watched your video so many times. Ravi.

This worked really well on my Mac. Thanks for taking the time to do the video!

I never ever comment, but THANK YOU!!!! They constantly find ways to make managing our machines impossible, it's our machines, after all. very frustrating but now super relieved THANK YOU!!! - you cant even find this user-friendly explanation on their site or on the computer even after typing Caches...

2019 and this video is saving my mac! Thank you so much for this information :)

Hello Mr. Pelanne.... Your video helped me a 1000%... I had over 6,600 of trash in the secured trash... Now my system acts like i just purchased it ... Thank You again i just Subscribed.

tons of thanks, claude. my mac has been real slow lately (couldn't even load chrome without my cursor turning to rainbow spinning wheel every single step!) and this helped a lot - turned out i have over 41k files to delete.

Awesome, thank you. Will keep this as a reference for when I need to clean my Cache folders.

Thanks had 37,000 items in it, hope this now helps my mac faster, cheers

This was super helpful. Just used it to clean up my MacBook Pro running Mavericks. It runs so much faster. Thank you so much.

Not sure if this is going to free up space for me. But thank you either way, this video was really well done. You're easy to understand and follow. thank you!

Love the way you explain things. Many thanks!!

Thanks a million. My old MacBook Pro was badly overheating, especially when on Facebook. Now it runs as cool as a cuke. Much appreciated.

Thank you so much your explanation is the best I found on RU-vid

This was super helpful, thank you. : )

Quick and easy to follow. Great job!

Great thanks - freed up a lot of space on my mac. I also the items in my download folder which is also easy to forget to do regularly

Helpful, even in 2019, thanks man.

Extremely helpful and straightforward...oh and had over 23000...yikes! All better after following your step-by-step instructions! Thnx much!

Very clear and concise. Very helpful. Thank you.

Why did I not know about this? I've had my MBP for 7 years. I've upgraded RAM from 2GB to 8GB and the HDD from 256GB to 1TB...all done myself. Lately its been very slow and even freezing. I rang Apple Support and paid AUD$39. There was 24,000+ files in the cache. The lady from Apple Support was very surprised. Thanks for the vid Claude!

This video was very helpful! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us :)

Loved it! I had more than 65,000 temp files !!!! Thank you so much !!

You're welcome Baudi. I'm glad the video helped. Be well and thanks for the comment.

Thank you for making this video. . .I followed it step by step, and was successful!

Had my mac since 2010 never done this before cleared over 30 k files thanks

First time I had seen this and tried it with two of my four Macs and it has helped by getting ride of a few gigabytes worth of crap thanks Claude

Now I know what and where the "tilde" is! As a "layman" I found your description excellent!

thank you king!! it’s deleting over 57000 items and it’s still going, hopefully my computer is faster after this. i’ve never done this and i’ve had my computer for 6 years 😩

Thanks for share! Clearing caches on Mac manually is a common ways.For people who want to save time to clear Mac from time to time, , some tools like MacClean allows users to clear out not only the caches but also cookies with a few clicks.

Thank you so much, you makes my storage clean and I get my 9 GB free space more :))

Hi CLaude, That was very helpful. I was able to clear the first cache. However, have upgraded my Lion to Mavaerick a while back and now when I try to clear the next cache, it says "Application Support" can't be modified or deleted because it is required by OS X. What shall I do about this?

Thanks for posting this. I knew there had to be an easier way. You're correct, when I upgraded to Lion, I could not find some of the Cache folders when I would go through Library. Thanks again!

Thanks for making this quick and easy @Claude Pelanne

Hi Kent - Great question and I had the same thought. When my machine was really slow I took it in to the genius desk and they told me to add memory, clear the hard drive down under 100 g and clear the cache of the machine. I did all three and my machine worked like a charm. When in doubt go to the mac store and ask the genius. lol. Stay well.

DUDE THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH. HAD AD POPUPS ON SARFI EVER TIME I CLICKED ON A LINK YOU ARE THE BEST

I had over 14k items to delete, it helped a lot New sub for ever

You saved my life with this video, thank you!!!

Thanks Claude one of the best tips I've seen, i just did it and had over 18k items. I never done it since i owned this machine and wow the internet is so much smoother and faster. Why don't people ever mention this? I guess im not that Mac savvy because on a PC its not this in depth to remove cache.

Great content! Helped freed up 30 GB of my memory.

Thank you so much for providing great information that worked! Other videos I viewed was basically pitching an app for you to buy. Thanks for helping us out. You've gained a fan and subscriber!

Thank you. That worked very nicely and released a lot of space. Cheers!

i am new to imac and your video really helped me thanks so much :)

Thank you! I've had bugs for a long time but now its all fine! thanks again!!!

to that guy who said still works in 2019, it also works in 2020. I was at 40 GB left and now I'm at 72 GB left. It's amazing

Thanks for the video, Claude! Very helpful, easy to understand. Goob job.

Good job, hope my machine runs good, first time I ever did this in over a year. Was running a tad slow

Thank you very much! Easy directions to follow!

Much appreciated, so helpful and easy . thanks again

My mac can't find the folder... But I'm german. Do you know, what I have to enter too?

Thank you! I'm running MacoS high Sierra and this still works! My iMac is blazing fast now

Thank you so helpful.

Thank you very much. Had over 6,000 files. Very helpful.

I cleared 80 GB off of my computer! This was amazing :) Thank you so much!

thanks so much for this video! i wonder how much disk space i'm freeing by deleting the 6k files from my cache. is there any way to defragment the mac drive?

Hi fazapops- Thanks for the comment. I was having a hard time getting it straight so I went to the Mac store and had them show me the solution. Then I made the video. Glad it helped.

Thanks for the explanation and demonstration. First clean out for me. I am trying to stop freeze up when typing on a 7 year old mac book pro.

Thank you for this information! Cleared up a lot of space on my macbook air! :D

Seemed to work OK. Like you said, I could not delete some of them out of trash, so I rebooted and then I could. Puts some the folders back. They were a lot smaller though. My old iMac seems to be running better. Thanks for the video. Brent

This was great help. Thanks!

Thanxxx I'm a photographer it helped a lot

Thanks! I really appreciate this Claude.

Thank you so much for this, it was so easy!

Hi jazzfire - Caches simply store pages that load from your own machine to save time. The reason to clear a cache is that there is often some of the cache pages are no longer relevant and take up memory. So clearing a cache is not about losing data since the data in online. I wouldn't worry about losing data by clearing a cache. Hope this helps.

Thanks for this explanation. Much appreciated.

Thank you so much! I had to pause it many times, but figured it out... :)

Just cleared out over 77,000 files. Thank you! Didn’t know what was up with my iMac. This explains it perfectly. 😂🤣

So helpful! Thanks a million!

Thank you so much, I had about 4000 items that useless. Thank you!

holy cow, thanks for this. Mac is running slow and I need to get to some cleaning

Perfect! Sweet and simple, easy to follow and gitter done. Thanks!

Thanks! This helps tremendously.

thanx man, you get a thumbs up, REALLY helped

This was really helpful thanks

After you send files to trash, do you empty the trash to notice a difference?

Thanks, that was very helpful. I've subscribed. Merry Christmas.

Thanks Mr. Claude for the helpful video! I had over 5,000 files to delete. Passing on this info to friends!

SUPER helpful. Thank you!