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1. #MAC MOVE DIRECTORY PRO#
2. #MAC MOVE DIRECTORY SOFTWARE#
3. #MAC MOVE DIRECTORY DOWNLOAD#
4. #MAC MOVE DIRECTORY MAC#

We moved some of them to another folder, but the majority were deleted. Problem solved. A quick look showed that the client wasn’t aware of the Downloads folder for some reason and had well over 110GB of files stored there. I finally decided that I needed to do something about that mess!īack when I was a Certified Apple Consultant, I had a client who was complaining about not having enough storage space on his Mac.

#MAC MOVE DIRECTORY DOWNLOAD#

Don’t believe me? Every day I download dozens of files for articles that I’m writing, and within weeks I’ll have hundreds of files. If you don’t watch it, your Downloads folder suddenly has hundreds or thousands of files in it. It’s very easy to download apps, documents, PDFs, photos, installers, and other media to your Mac. Why you should manage your Downloads folder On the website, you see a perfect picture to send, so you right-click the image (a two-finger click on a trackpad) and see this pop-up menu:Ĭlick the attachments (paperclip) button to save Mail attachments to the Downloads folder

#MAC MOVE DIRECTORY PRO#

As an example, let’s say that you want to send a friend a picture of the awesome OWC Envoy Pro Elektron you just bought.

#MAC MOVE DIRECTORY MAC#

How files are saved to the Mac Downloads folderĪs mentioned in this article’s opening paragraph, anything downloaded in a web browser goes into the Downloads folder by default. It’s also where the Downloads folder lives. Home is the location for many folders and files for your user account. For those who don’t use iCloud Drive, Desktop and Documents folders are also in the Home folder. The Home folder contains a lot of things: Movies, Music, and Pictures, first and foremost. The Downloads folder is accessible from two places: the Dock, where it may appear as a “pile” of files or as a folder (image above), and in the Home folder.

#MAC MOVE DIRECTORY SOFTWARE#

If that external drive is formatted as NTFS-verify your supporting third party software is up to date and compatible.The Downloads Folder Dock icon, usually found to the left of Trash in the Dock If this is associated with external drive, verify that drive is mounted before attempting to move/delete/trash or the macOS has no reference to source. save it for the feedback link.įor technical support- if that is what you want(?) The directory contained over 20,000 items making it rather cumbersome to locate the offending files. Interestingly, when I located these zero byte visual media files and attempted to delete, I got this message (see screen capture below). I found a number of image files and a moving picture file that had zero bytes. What Microsoft never got (and now macOS?) is that it would be quite a lot more useful to point to an exact file that cannot be moved rather than just give up and say it can't be done for some unknown reason - other than a vague indication that a file or directory (out of +20,000 files in my case) can't be moved for some reason.Īnyway, the problem has been resolved and I chalk it up to some issue over corrupt files making macOS believe those files were in use - when they were not. And, at one time, macOS was a clean enough operating system that such tasks were trivial - as it should be.Īs a side note: for decades (and likely to this day) Microsoft Windows had always been plagued with issues such as this (moving files without a big fuss). I was moving from my download folder (located on the SSD of my MacBook) to an external drive. macOS - so hard to tell the difference these days) from moving a directory. So, it appears that, perhaps, corrupt files prevented Microsoft Windows (er. Deleting these enabled Microsoft Windows (I mean macOS) to continue.