Step 1

Open iStat Menus from the menu bar and check the storage breakdown

Step 2

Open CleanMyMac, run a Cleanup scan, and let it identify caches, log files, and system junk — then hit Clean to reclaim the space in one go

Step 3

Use CleanMyMac's Space Lens feature to visualize which folders and files are taking up the most room

Step 4

Open CloudMounter and connect Google Drive, Dropbox, or other cloud accounts — they appear as local drives in Finder so you can offload files without losing easy access to them

Step 5

Leave iStat Menus running in the menu bar as a passive monitor — it flags when disk space drops below a threshold so the next clean-up happens before things get critical