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title: "Savings history · MacMelon"
description: "Savings history is Disk Housekeeper's record of what each clean actually removed on your Mac, so you read real numbers instead of remembering a feeling."
url: "https://macmelon.com/glossary/savings-history"
---

# Savings history

A readable record of the space Disk Housekeeper saved on your Mac.

After a clean, it helps to see what was actually removed rather than remembering a feeling about the disk. The savings history is that record. It belongs to the machine the app ran on. A marketing page that prints a typical gigabyte number would be inventing one, so this site does not.

Read it next to the menu bar free-space readout. If they disagree, files may still be in the Trash, which still uses space, or you may be looking at [purgeable space](https://macmelon.com/glossary/purgeable-space). The steps are in [Read a savings history](https://macmelon.com/use-cases/read-a-savings-history).

## Apps

[Make room for what matters. Clear clutter with confidence. ### Disk Housekeeper](https://macmelon.com/apps/disk-housekeeper)

## Related guides

[### How to free up disk space on a Mac](https://macmelon.com/guides/how-to-free-up-disk-space-on-a-mac)

## Related use cases

[### Read a savings history](https://macmelon.com/use-cases/read-a-savings-history)[### Free up space on a MacBook](https://macmelon.com/use-cases/free-up-space-on-a-macbook)

## Related terms

[The holding area macOS uses for files you have deleted but not yet erased. ### Trash](https://macmelon.com/glossary/trash)[Space the system may reclaim, which is not always free for a new file right now. ### Purgeable space](https://macmelon.com/glossary/purgeable-space)[The system strip at the top of a Mac screen, where status items live. ### Menu bar](https://macmelon.com/glossary/menu-bar)