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Move, migrate and minimize

ANOTHER WAY TO make your old Mac run faster is to declutter its hard drive — getting rid of old, unwanted apps, backing up and archiving media and files you’re not likely to need any time soon, and moving currently used media to external drives. Moving large media files such as your music, movie and photos libraries does much to free up valuable hard drive space.

Moving your media is sensible for other reasons too. If the hard drive inside your Mac is as old as the Mac itself (which it probably is), it could fail at any time. Therefore moving your media to

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