And as you can imagine, manually freeing disk space can be a tedious task. In fact, there are many other files on your computer that you simply don’t need: caches no longer in use, language files for languages you don’t speak, and many more. Chances are, you have a lot of redundant files on your computer-not backups, but duplicates you don’t even know about (and certainly don’t need). Is your Mac running slow compared to when you first got it? Most hard drives will begin to show serious performance degradation as they fill up.