Usually we will delete a file or folder, we choose to Move to Trash to remove the unused items on the Mac and they will be moved into the trash. As the time passed by, if you forget to empty the trash, the trash will take up a lot of disk storage on your Mac. So Apple added a feature in macOS Sierra 10.12 and later, it allows the Trash to empty automatically after 30 day. But how to auto empty trash on the old mac? Or more options to customise the automatically empty? This article provides the solution to customise automatically empty trash on mac with more options even in the old mac.
Turn on the auto empty Trash after 30 days in macOS Sierra 10.12 and later
If you are using macOS Sierra, high Sierra or newer, you can use this feature in Finder.
From the Finder in MacOS, go to the Finder menu and choose Perferences... -> go toAdvanced tab and check the box Remove items from the Trash after 30 days. Then your trash will automatically empty every 30 days from now on.
Customise automatically empty trash With Better Trash
Have you ever thought of using more options to empty your trash automatically? For example, empty it every 7 days, 15 days, or 2 months, or when the trash storage exceeds the storage limit (for example: 500MB, 1GB, 5GB, 10GB, etc.). Yes, Better Trash can do all these options and more for you.
Better Trash is a trash tool to allow you to force empty trash, secure delete file or folder and auto empty Trash. Here we talk about the Auto Empty Trash feature in Better Trash.
Better Trash is a menu bar application. When you run Better Trash, you can find the men bar icon at the top of the computer window. Click the menu bar icon, it will pop-up the menu window, choose "Auto Empty Trash"
Then it will display the setting window. If you need to automatically empty trash using the time frequency, just select AutoTrash Time frequency check button, then select Daily, Every week, Two weeks, Monthly, Two month. It will work in the next time interval you set, and it will show a tip about if you need to empty the trash before deleting the trash item.
Or you can choose automatically empty trash using the storage limit , just select AutoTrash When the storage of Trash is more than check button, then drag the slider to set the maximum capacity of the Trash. It will work when the Trash exceeds the storage you set. By default, the application will check the trash storage every 6 hours.
Better Trash also provides the other features: Force Empty Trash and Secure Delete. They can solve the problem that Trash can't be emptied, or overwrite the computer data with DOD 7 pass standard before deletion.
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