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No. Despite the name, the Junk Yard doesn't scan your Mac, find junk files or delete anything from your drives. The "junk" is the throwaway snippets you copy all day — the Junk Yard is a clipboard history and quick-notes board.

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Clearing a scrap from the board only removes the scrap. If a card points at a file, the file itself stays exactly where it is.

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To get disk space back, use Storage Studio's space tools instead — the one-tap clean-up, What's Using Space, and moving big folders or apps to an external drive. See Freeing up space.

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Junk Yard · Junk Yard basics

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Does the Junk Yard clean junk files off my Mac?

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Short answer: No. The Junk Yard is a clipboard history and quick-notes board, not a cleaner. It never scans for or deletes files on your Mac; to free up space, use Storage Studio's clean-up and moving tools.

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No. Despite the name, the Junk Yard doesn't scan your Mac, find junk files or delete anything from your drives. The "junk" is the throwaway snippets you copy all day — the Junk Yard is a clipboard history and quick-notes board.

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Clearing a scrap from the board only removes the scrap. If a card points at a file, the file itself stays exactly where it is.

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To get disk space back, use Storage Studio's space tools instead — the one-tap clean-up, What's Using Space, and moving big folders or apps to an external drive. See Freeing up space.

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