Guides

Practical, tool-agnostic guides to cleaning up a Mac without losing anything. Manual methods first; Archivist Sort where hand-review stops scaling.

Migration Assistant left me with duplicates of everything

Why migrations create duplicates, how to verify a duplicate is real with the tools already on your Mac, why bulk-delete is the risky step, and a safe cleanup workflow.

Is it safe to delete duplicate files on a Mac?

The real risks of deleting duplicates, a manual checksum workflow with the tools already on your Mac, and Trash-first discipline.

Cleaning an external drive without losing backups

Plan first, verify before you delete, never clean the only copy, and keep your backups intact while you free space.