Instead, macOS marks them as available space. If All Else Fails, Use Disk DrillД®ven when you empty your trash, deleted files arenвЂ™t removed from your hard drive right away.

Should you want to stop showing hidden files (theyвЂ™re hidden for a reason, and there are a lot of them), you can run the same commands in Terminal again, but replace вЂњTRUEвЂќ with вЂњFALSEвЂќ on the first line: defaults write AppleShowAllFiles FALSE You can even empty it from Finder to clear some space on a USB stick. At the prompt, paste these two lines in there one at a time, hitting Enter after each line: defaults write AppleShowAllFiles TRUEДЄfter running these commands, you should be able to see theВ вЂњ.TrashesвЂќ folder. Press Command+Space and type вЂњTerminalвЂќ to bring it up. You can enable hidden files in Finder by running the following commands in Terminal. If youвЂ™re using macOS Sierra or later, you can view hidden files in Finder by simply using the SHIFT+CMD+. One of these hidden folders is вЂњ.TrashesвЂќ and it contains the trash for that drive. Whenever you use an external drive, your Mac creates a bunch of hidden folders starting with a period to help the drive work better with macOS. TheyвЂ™re hidden by default, though, so you have to do a little digging.

If your file was stored on a USB flash drive or external hard drive, those have their own Trash you can check for deleted files. And if you havenвЂ™t emptied it in a while, doing so might get you back quite a bit of disk space. It should give you a list of files that youвЂ™ve deleted recently-at least, since the last time you emptied it. Right-click it and click the вЂњOpenвЂќ command. The Trash is usually located at the end of your dock.

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