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What is the Free Up Space wizard in Storage Studio?

Short answer: It's a three-step, preview-first clean-up: cache cleanup, relocation of large files to your fast drive, and optional cloud eviction. Nothing changes until you confirm each step.

The Free Up Space wizard is the preview-first way to reclaim space: three steps, each showing exactly what will happen before anything changes.

  1. Cache cleanup — a checklist of well-known cache locations with sizes; untick anything you want to keep.
  2. Oversize-file relocation — large files in your working folders, each of which you can move to your fast drive, relocate with a shortcut, or skip.
  3. Cloud eviction (optional) — make downloaded copies of cloud files online-only, per provider.

Each step's confirm button is the only thing that writes to your disk, so you can back out at any point before it. For a hands-off version, use Run Tuhi. Full detail: Tuhi & Free Up Space.

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