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How should I go about freeing up space on my Mac?
Should I manually save photos, music, etc on an external HDD and do a fresh install of OSX?
or could I use Time Machine to backup my stuff and then do a fresh install of OSX? or will that also backup the unwanted junk that has accumlated on my system?
I haven’t used Time Machine yet so would that also backup any applications as well?
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