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How To Find Apps On Your Mac That You No Longer Need

How To Find Apps On Your Mac That You No Longer Need

I must have 150 apps on my Mac. Some are big. Some small. Combined, they take up a lot of my precious harddrive space. But how many of the the 150 apps do I use on a regular basis? Are there any apps that I can delete in order to free up space?

It’s easy to find out.

Load up Finder.app, go to File > Find add “Kind is Application” in the search filter area and choose a “Last opened date” that is before, say, 2 months ago.

How to find old apps that you no longer use

This will return apps that have not been opened since that period. You can now choose to delete any apps that you no longer use or plan to use in the future.

By using this technique I saved more than 2GB of hard drive space on my Mac. Remember to empty your trash and you delete your unused apps.