It’s small (650MB) so it won’t affect your Macs performance, but it may be useful if something goes wrong. Normal Recovery Mode accesses Recovery HD, an emergency cache of essential utilities that is saved to a partition in your Mac's startup drive, meaning that it’s kept separate from the rest of your disk space.īecause it’s been partitioned from the rest of your disk space, the data can’t be cleared in cleanup scans or manually deleted. The differences between Internet Recovery and regular Recovery
So, give it a try - you can download CleanMyMac X for free.
By the way, this app removes up to 74 GB of junk on an average Mac computer.
With a tool like CleanMyMac X, you can declutter everything you don’t need, then back up safely (always best doing before restarting or rebooting), which means it should run much faster once restored to full working condition.
Otherwise, this is like cleaning the house, then dumping everything you’ve hoovered back onto the carpet. Now, if you are considering a complete restart in Recovery or Internet Mode, it’s recommended that you give your Mac a thorough clean first.