Also make sure you delete all the mail from your trash. Make sure you delete any junk mail and spam. Just go ahead and delete the ones you do not need.
#APPS TO MAKE MAC RUN FASTER OFFLINE#
People do not realize that when you view email on that application, it stores each email message onto the computer for offline viewing. I would start with the Mail app if you use it. If not most likely you just have lots of system junk and need to manually clean it out. If you see that there are some items that need to be repaired click repair disk permissions. Click on first aid, verify disk permissions. Select your hard drive (most often it is called Macintosh HD unless you named it something else). Go to disk utility (applications, utilities, disk utility). One possible reason for that is your computers disk permissions are a little messed up.