# Big files | ByteSweep Docs

> Find your largest files in ByteSweep and clean them, move them, or archive them to another drive.

Canonical: https://bytesweep.app/docs/clean/big-files.html
Last updated: 2026-11-02

## Big files

Big files aren't junk, so ByteSweep never picks them for you. You decide what happens to each.

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### On this page

- On a Mac
- Filter the list
- Choose what happens
- Keep it, off this computer

On Mac

### On a Mac

Open **Big files**from**Free up space**. It opens the largest-files view of [Storage](https://bytesweep.app/docs/learn/find-space.html). Press**Add to Cleanup** on anything you don't need.

On Windows and Linux

### Filter the list

Open **Big files**, then narrow it with**Minimum size**,**Age**,**Kind**and**Drive**.

### Choose what happens

- **Move to Recycle Bin** (Trash on Linux). Restore it from there, not from Undo.
- **Move to…** another folder.
- **Archive…** into a compressed file.
- **Send to another drive…**

### Keep it, off this computer

**Archive to a drive**moves files to an external drive.**Bring Back** copies them back later, when that drive is connected. The drive keeps its copy.

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Updated 2026-11-02. Something wrong here? Write to [support@bytesweep.app](mailto:support@bytesweep.app).