Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: Sarey Sarey So, I am wondering if it is safe for me to delete the original download or not? Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too.
Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Sep 21, PM in response to Sarey In response to Sarey If you have a copy of the files in an other folder than your download folder, it is indeed very safe to delete them! Whenever you perform a download on the internet, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox shall automatically keep a record of it. However, deleting the downloaded file using Finder does not remove the corresponding entry from your web browser.
If privacy is a concern, you must delete the download history separately. Open the View menu and select Show Downloads. Or, control-click and choose Remove from List to delete individual entries from the list. Open the Chrome menu and select Downloads. Should you want, you can delete entries individually by selecting the x -shaped icon next to each download. Open the Firefox menu, point at Library , and select Downloads.
Then, select Clear Downloads to get rid of the download history. To remove individual entries, control-click and select Remove From History instead.
Finder aside, you can use the built-in Storage Management utility to delete downloads on your Mac. Pick Documents on the Storage Management sidebar and switch to the Downloads tab to bring up a list of downloads on your Mac. Sort through your downloads using the Kind , Last Accessed , and Size columns. Then, select a file and use the Delete button to remove it from your Mac. Hold down the Command key to select and remove multiple items. The Storage Management utility also allows you to get rid of various non-browser downloads located outside the Downloads folder on the Mac.
For example, iOS Files lets you remove iPhone system software installers from the internal storage. Additionally, you may want to head over to the Recommendations screen and enable Optimize Storage. That should prompt your Mac to free up space by automatically removing old Apple TV video downloads and email attachments.
Most apps that allow you to download content offline also provide built-in options to delete them. Deleting downloads on Mac can be a pain because It involves two separate things: cleaning up your Downloads folder and then removing the downloads history from your browser. So, in short, you'll need to: find your Downloads folder, remove your downloads, clear your downloads history in your browser, and finally empty your Trash.
Finder is the first place you should look for downloads in on your Mac. Then you can sort downloads by size: right-click in Finder, click Group By pop-up menu and choose Size. This app has a Large and Old Files feature that detects all massive files and lets you delete them all.
You'd be surprised at how many GB of space you can reclaim! It can be a challenge to find the files you downloaded from different apps, such as Skype, on your Mac. By default, all the items you want to save go into the Downloads folder.
But, if you have changed these settings, your files would be stored elsewhere. So, how to find those downloads on your Mac. Open it to locate the files Skype saved and delete them. You can change directory to save your Skype files elsewhere. The pretty similar route applies to all other apps you save files from. For example, to find out the Slack downloads location, I opened the app and then navigated to its Preferences. To make it easier to find files you saved, choose one download location for all your apps.
You will eliminate clutter in lots of folders and will be able to delete many files at once. Select the section below based on the browser you use.
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