Hpw to delete junk files

how to delete junk files

If you know which files you want to delete, you can drag them to the Trash Can in your docking bar and empty it, or right-click/left-click (depending your mouse preferences) and choose 'Move to Trash'.
If you are looking for a tool which can classify your files into categories, and automatically move files to Trash, that is a bit more work, but can be done using Automator scripts.

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HT5636 to delete junk files

how to delete junck files in mac by using windows 7?

osx can't out of the box write ntfs (windows file system) there are 3th party programs which make it possible
windows can't out of the write apple osx filesystem there are 3th party programs which make it possible
changing size of a partition (a harddisk devices into several portions is called partitions)
is no simple task there are tools which can do it but they are often expensive like the tool partition magic not even sure if it could do it though
easiests way would be take a backup of windows delete bootcamp parition for windows
setup a new bootcamp partition with more space
install windows
restore the backup
it's been the way for as long as people been dual booting with windows and linux and os2 and the likes

Can not delete mails - deleting the trash (junk file) does not helping - any other ideas?

Its on Win 7 with Thunderbird used for many years.
Got directed some junk files where they belong - after some month - means now it is not possible to delete any file from any
Thunderbird catalog.
New mails are arriving as normal...
Best Regards
Waldemar

try compact folder
If it doesn't help, repair folder
But try it off-line

How can I delete multiple files at a time from "Finder"

I can't possible delete the thousands of junk files that showed up in Finder once I downloaded Maverick. I can't delete more than one at a time now. Why won't the highlighting stay in place on more than one file that I want to delete?

How are you trying to select multiple files?
What makes you think that "thousands of junk files [...] showed up in Finder once I downloaded Maverick" (or even installed it)?

How to remove the junk files from my Phone E7?

Hi I want to know if there is any junk files cleaner available for Symbian belle E7 phone. I have come to know many junk file cleaner like X-cleaner, mobile cleaner 1.8 available but whenever I want to install those files in E7, it displays that installation can not continue contact the administrator. or sometimes certificate issue comes.
I know whenever I check mails or install a new apps, there are certain files which support the installations but after those files are not automatically deleted orremoved from C or E drives. I have seen in the C: drive many log files and *.qf files or some other files are present.
Is there any way I can delete those files?
Thanks
If I have given a solution to your problem then click on the white star is very much appreciated...

Hello Guys, any update about my question, I hope there is a junk file cleaner. But didn't get any in Nokia store. whatever downloading from internet in giving certificate issue.
If there is no such app, why not Nokia developers developing such kind of app???
Isn't it would be a great help to us. In our PC also there is CCleaner, pc cleaner etc etc..
A smart phone should have this app. isn't it?
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Some junk files created in my shared folder

hi
i have a server 2012 r2 and I shared a folder for network access.
my clients are xp and seven.
after 1 week some junk files apeared in my folder.
I deleted them but another files apear after some days.
files name like :
2fv34
df542

Hi Reza,
Sorry for my delay.
Based on your description, I understand that some odd files are created automatically in the shared folder.
If anything I misunderstand, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Please run anti-virus software to scan the Windows Server 2012 R2 firstly.
Please let me know the type of those odd files. Or provide a screenshot of this file (please hide all protected
and private information). Meanwhile, please right click that file and select Properties. Navigate to General tab, Security tab and check if find some exceptions.
In addition, please open Control Panel on the server, select Folder Options, select View tab. There will be
two options under Hidden files and folders: Don’t show hidden files, folders, or drives and
Show hidden files, folders and drives. Please check if there has differences in those odd files when you check each option.
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

How to remove junk files on iPhone 5s?

First of all, I'm just wondering if it's possible for me to view the junk files on my device (iPhone 5s).
If Yes, how? or do I need any software to view and be able to delete it?
When I say junk files, I mean those files (takes so much space) which created by the installed apps but it has no longer installed on the device.

Hello there, Raminister.
The following Knowledge Base article provides some great information in regards to orphaned files and how to solve issues with them on your iOS device:
iOS: "Not enough free space" alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1503
Try disconnecting and reconnecting your device, then syncing again to solve this issue.
Orphaned files may remain on your iOS device if it is physically disconnected while syncing music, podcasts, videos, or photos. This can prevent iTunes from syncing the iOS device on subsequent sync sessions. When this happens, the Capacity indicator in iTunes may report a large amount of "Other" disk usage for the iOS device. To resolve this issue:
Turn off the music or photo sync option in iTunes for the device.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Turn the music and photo sync options for the device on again.
Click Apply again to try to sync the device to iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 5.
Turn off the automatic syncing functions for the iOS device. To do this:
Select the iOS device from the iTunes window and click the Summary tab.
Deselect "Automatically sync when this device is connected" and select the "Sync only checked songs and videos" checkbox.
Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
Reduce the amount of data that is being synced to the device and resync the device. For example, if syncing your Music library exceeds the memory capacity of the device, choose "Selected playlists" to transfer rather than "All songs and playlists" under the Music tab in iTunes.
If the 'Not enough free space' alert appears, continue to step 6.
Restore using iTunes.
Additionally this article is also helpful for understanding device capacity:
Understanding iOS device capacity
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1867
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

Junk files in music folders

I namually manage all my music folders, with each album being a subfolder of the artist folder. I do my best to keep junk files out of these folders when I edit the ID3 tags using Mp3tag or Tagscanner. Now that I've been using a program called Xinorbis to evaluate the contents of my music folders, I see that I have many junk files that don't show up when I simply open the folder. I believe I have "show hidden files" checked, but there are still some rogue files. Most of them are either .ini or .jpg (small album art stuff) with a few .db and .nfo files.
Does iTunes use any of these files? Any danger of deleting them? Will they be regenerated by iTunes or any other program? These files don't take up much space, but it does confuse things when "properties" shows several hundred (or thousand) files more than my mp3 count. (Mp3 13934 files, 3573 graphics files, 413 system files)
This is the first step of cleaning out the files so that I may run the script that will extract album art into the folders. You know, get rid of the old stuff first.

Adding to Katrina's answer slightly...
Windows Media Player & Windows Explorer may typically create up to 6 additional files in each album folder containing .mp3 or .wma files - sometimes more if you've tried getting it to refetch album information, for example because the first attempt gave the tracks in a different order. These are:
desktop.ini - records WMP's identification of the album
Folder.jpg - 200x200px album art, displays as a folder thumbnail image
AlbumArtSmall - 75x75px small version of the above
AlbumArt{GUID}Large.jpg - 200x200px artwork
AlbumArt{GUID}Small.jpg - 75x75px artwork
Thumbs.db - cache of images used by Windows Explorer
where there might be multiple files with different GUID's (Globably Unique IDentifier). Occasionaly the images are not square in which case 200px & 75px will be the maximum dimension. The files are nomally both Hidden and marked as System files which might be why they are not showing.
If you've been letting iTunes or any other program reorganise your music folders then you may have some that are empty of music and simply contain the legacy of WMP's earlier involvement. I've written a script called CleanDeadArt which can be used to tidy these up. For folders that still contain music they won't be doing any harm. WMP will just try to recreate them given a chance. Again the script is fairly easy to modify if you want it to be more aggressive, e.g. remove/archive all artwork, or it could be set to just unhide things so you can see what is going on.
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Prevent children from deleting important files?

My family is going to be purchasing a new iMac soon, to be used by four children, including a 12-year old. The problem is that he is known for "screwing up" computers.
The computer we have now suffers from a lack of printer drivers and system profiler, both which were "accidentally" deleted by him.
My question is, is there a way to set up parental controls that allow him to access all of the regular programs on the computer, but not be allowed to delete any files without an administrator's password? I really do not feel like digging out the startup disks every time he makes a boo-boo on the computer.

Believe me, this kid has been taught by a former Apple salesperson. He normally knows what he's doing on there, but sometimes goes a little too far when doing "Spring cleaning" when told to get rid of his junk files.
The other children are just fine on the computer, and fortunately not as curious or destructive. We've owned Macs for 13 years and never would I have thought that we'd need to do any troubleshooting like this at all! One account has always been plenty for our family of six, I guess until now. We'll see how things go after individual accounts have been created, then maybe once the trust is gained back, go back to the single user account.
Thanks to everyone for the help!

How can i delete junk in my thunderbird. I have one that i dont want

I have 2 junk files in mu thunderbird and i just want to delete one of them. How do i achieve this???

Options to delete a selected email:
* Select email so it displays in Message Pane and click on Delete button.
* Right click on email in list and select 'Delete Message'.
To delete all emails in a Junk folder:
* Right click on Junk folder and select: Empty Junk.
Remember to periodically compact the Junk folder to remove all hidden from view marked as deleted emails.
Right click on Junk folder and select 'Compact'.

How to delete when file in use by the finder?

I have two files in my trash which won't delete. I get the error that they are being used by another program. Holding down option, using secure empty trash, using the terminal method of deleting the trash.. none of them work.
So I did the terminal command: lsof /path-to-file and found out it was being used by Finder. I don't think I can exactly quit the Finder process in Activity Monitor.. so how can I get these files out of my trash?

Thanks. Unfortunately, when I quit finder and try to delete the files in the trash by the following command:
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
It tells me "Directory not empty". Argghh..
I feel like I've tried everything. Can someone give me some other suggestions? Thanks

Error while deleting a file which is in a folder which inturn in workspace

12:20:42.309 DELETE (FAILED: Conflict [(pre||post)-condition failed: x:concurrency-lock-denied]) Hello.java   (C:\CFolder1\WSF1\WSF2\Dev\HelloWorld\Package\Hello.java)
--- Problem summary: ---
12:20:42.309 DELETE (FAILED: Conflict [(pre||post)-condition failed: x:concurrency-lock-denied]) Hello.java   (C:\CFolder1\WSF1\WSF2\Dev\HelloWorld\Package\Hello.java)
I am getting above error while deleting a file which is in a folder which inturn in workspace

Here is the problem I have with deleting my folder. I had created a WD project TaxTool and and added the DC to my SC. There were obviously some checkedout activities. Being new to this, I deleted the project directly without checking in the activities. Now I have folder TaxTool/_comp with nothing underneath on the DTR server and on my client. I am unable to checkout TaxTool for delete but the checkout of _comp folder fails in NWDS with the following error:
<b>EDIT (FAILED: server response: Conflict [(pre||post)-condition failed: x:no-exclusivity-with-existing-checked-out-resources]) comp   (C:\JDI\JDIDEMO1\intelJDI_TEST\dev\inactive\DCs\intel.com\TaxTool\_comp\)</b>
If I try the same from the DTR shell, I get this following error:
<b>Unexpected problem occurred during executing command.Lockfile "C:\Documents and
Settings\bvedamur\.dtr\.syncdbs\5b0d8b2110a7a29883734c0407462df8.syncdbM.lock" is already in use by another process.</b>
I am the only user in the system (doing R&D) and I have tried Sync and Delete. Nothing works. Help appreciated.
Thx
Bhaskar

When using a Seagate 1T external hard drive and Time Machine to back up hourly, if I delete photo files from the Mac hard drive before the next back up, are these retained on the Seagate drive or will they be lost (overwritten) in the next backu in the ne

Does Time Machine erase previously saved files if, say, photos are deleted from the Macbook upon the next update, or will they be stored indefinately despite the current status of the files stored on the computer? Eg. can I bckup photo files to a Seagate 1T disc and then delete them to make more room on the computer in the knowlwdge that they are always going to be on the Seagate disc? Sorry if this is very elementary but I have not used a back up before like this, and am not sure how successive backups are overlaid or retained. Thanks!!

TM is not designed to do what you ask. As Allan wrote TM is an incremental backup not an archival solution.
If you delete a file from the HD it will eventually be removed from the TM backup (if it ever makes it on to the backup at all).
How long before it is removed depends on a number of factors, TM disk drive size being one factor but not the only one.
Material that is impossible to replace and is important to you (image files usually fitting that description) need to be backed up to as least one other drive and preferably more for long term storage.

Deleting individual Files from trash folder

This should be a simple question...Is there a way to permanently delete individual files/folders from the trash folder instead of emptying the entire trash folder? TIA, Scott

As Allan says, no... the trash *should not* be used as a repository for files you're not sure you want to trash yet. Not only is this extremely hazardous, as it's easy to accidentally empty the trash, but it also puts all those questionable files outside the reach of Time Machine, so they will not be backed up. If you need a "Pending Trash" folder, create one on your desktop, and then put files in the trash only once you are truly ready to delete them.

Why does iTunes create disk errors when deleting movie files?

I use a Macbook Pro, OSX 10.7.5. When I delete movie file from my iTunes library I get disk errors. I need to option boot select the recovery disk and repair the disk. Deleting a movie file I have placed on my desktop with finder does not create any errors. Most of the movie files are created as .m4v movies. They all play just fine with my Apple TV. I have tried turning off the Apple TV and rebooting before I delee files but nothing seems to work.
Any ideas?
Lance

If you let iTunes organise your media folders then that is the way it is. An option would be to change the Media Kind to TV Show which would gather them togther in one folder, but in a different part of the library.
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