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Our lives are increasingly intertwined with technology, the storage space on our devices becomes a valuable commodity. Mac users often find themselves grappling with the perennial issue of managing storage space efficiently. Accumulated files, applications, and system clutter can clog up your Mac's storage, slowing down performance and hindering productivity.

In this guide, we'll use the built-in Terminal app to free up space on your Mac without using any third-party software.

1. Empty the Trash

Start by emptying the Trash. Even though this can be done through the Finder, you can also do it via Terminal using the rm command.

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*

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Running Third Party Kernel Extensions on Virtualization Framework macOS Guest VMs

As of macOS 12 (Monterey), Apple's Virtualization framework has nice support for macOS guest virtual machines, but with severe limitations: For example you can't install a macOS guest on Intel Macs, install guests with newer versions of macOS than the host, copy and paste between the host and the guest, or install third party kernel extensions in the guest. As usual for Apple, the functionality they do support is nicely implemented, but they've left out so much that the result is only marginally useful -- at least compared to

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How to Defang macOS System Protections

If you want to change things on the root drive of a Mac you will need to take some steps to disable the built in security of the system. Most of these steps are the same regardless if you are on Intel or Apple Silicon. If there is a difference it is noted.

Note that all of these things put a Mac into an unsupported and less secure state.

Make sure you either perform these steps in a VM or that you reset the protections after you are done poking around

Protections and Terms

(This list is not exahustive on the details of each. Check the links at the end for more info.)