It’s all done automatically by your computer, so you never tend to notice when it happens. Paging is what we call using your storage drive as memory. Occasionally, if you’re doing something that requires a lot of memory, you’ll come up against some of the limits that come with having limited RAM. You have a much smaller amount of RAM than you do storage on your SSD. When you run a program on your Mac, it gets loaded into your memory (RAM). What is the Mac swapfile?īefore we delve into what the swapfile is, we have to talk about swapping in the context of how your computer works. It can be difficult to understand just what these files are, and whether you can manage to do without them, especially since they seem to just sit there and take up space sometimes they take up quite a lot of space indeed. You might have run across something called swap, or a swapfile. If you’ve even run out of disk space on your Mac, you’ve probably sat and taken some time to look and see what’s eating up all this space (pro tip: it’s easy to forget how many files you move to the Mac Trash folder the first thing you should do when you run out of space is right-click on the Trash icon on the dock and select Empty Trash). What is the Mac swapfile? Is it important? Can you delete it? We’ll walk you through this mysterious Mac file and what you can do about it.
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