How to Defrag External Hard Drive Mac?

How do I Defrag my External Hard Drive?

On the keyboard, press the Windows Key ( ) + E.
Once the (MY) Computer / This PC is open, hover over the drive you want to perform the Defragmentation and right-click on the Seagate drive.
Click on Properties.
Click on Tools.
Click on Defragment now (Optimize in Windows 8/8.1/10)

How do you Clean up an External Hard Drive on a Mac?

Select the drive image from the desktop.
Select Finder > Empty Trash .
Voila.

Do Mac Hard Drives Need to be Defragmented?

Mac do not need to be defragmented because the file system initially HFS+ and more recently APFS prevents fragmentation and automatically defrags files if necessary if the file has more than eight fragments, or is smaller than 20MB, it will be automatically defragged.

How do I Clear the Cache on my External Hard Drive Mac?

In Finder, go to Go, then select Go to Folder.
Type in “~/Library/Caches.” This will open a menu of folders, each with a cache for an application on your Mac.
Go to each of the folders and delete the files inside.
Repeat the process when you go to “/Library/Caches” without using the ~.