Deleting downloads on Mac can be a pain because It involves two separate things: cleaning up your Downloads folder and then removing the downloads history from your browser. So, in short, you'll need to: find your Downloads folder, remove your downloads, clear your downloads history in your browser, and (finally) empty your Trash.

How to delete downloads on Mac via Finder

Finder is the first place you should look for downloads in on your Mac. If you have a mountain of download files stored, it’d be smart to sort your items and see which of them are the heaviest.

1. Open Finder.
2. Press Cmd+Shift+G.
3. Type in: ~/
4. Open Downloads folder.
5. Righ-click anywhere in the window and select Use Groups.
6. Finder will then gather your downloads in groups such as Applications, PDF documents, Images, and others, so you can quickly look through them and delete files you don’t need.

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Then you can sort downloads by size: right-click in Finder, click Group By pop-up menu and choose Size.

If you want to remove multiple downloads from your Mac at once, you can do that with CleanMyMac X. This app has a Large and Old Files feature that detects all massive files and lets you delete them all. I will explain how to quickly get to downloads on your Mac using CleanMyMac X later in the article. You'd be surprised at how many GB of space you can reclaim!

How to delete downloads from software (e.g. Skype) which are hard to find

It can be a challenge to find the files you downloaded from different apps, such as Skype, on your Mac. By default, all the items you want to save go into the Downloads folder. But, if you have changed these settings, your files would be stored elsewhere. So, how to find those downloads on your Mac.

If you search for Skype downloads, here’s how to locate them:

1. Open Skype.
2. Go to the Skype menu and choose Preferences.
3. Select Messaging from the list on the left.

In the end, there’s “When I receive a file” setting. It’s set to Downloads, which means all files you download from Skype automatically go into this folder. Open it to locate the files Skype saved and delete them. You can change directory to save your Skype files elsewhere.

The pretty similar route applies to all other apps you save files from. For example, to find out the Slack downloads location, I opened the app and then navigated to its Preferences.

To make it easier to find files you saved, choose one download location for all your apps. You will eliminate clutter in lots of folders and will be able to delete many files at once.

Once you’re done deleting your downloads, it’s time to clear the downloads history from the browser you use. Select the section below based on the browser you use.

The easy way to delete large and old files on Mac

However, if you’re looking for a solution that makes clearing out your large downloads (including your Skype downloads history) simple, check out a cleaning utility like CleanMyMac X.

Large and Old Files feature scans your storage for heavy files piling up on your Mac for a long time. It shows how much space each file takes and helps to quickly get rid of all old documents, .dmg files, and archives that clutter your storage.

Large and Old Files helps you clean up your Downloads folder with just a few clicks. Here's how to clear old downloads on your Mac:

1. Download the free version of CleanMyMac X.
2. Install and launch the app.
3. Click Large & Old Files.
4. Scan your Mac and then select whatever you wish to remove.
5. Click Remove.

And you’re done. As you can see, it’s incredibly easy to remove your downloads on Mac with CleanMyMac X.

But, if you’d still like to clean up your downloads and download history manually, just follow the steps below.

How to delete old .DMG files on Mac

On macOS, the majority of apps you download come in .dmg format. '.dmg' is a disk image that contains a compressed download file. These files work like hard drives: they can be mounted and ejected.

When you open the .dmg file, you’ll see the application you’re about to install. After installing the application (dragging it to the Applications folder), the .dmg file will stay on your Mac until you delete it. Imagine how many .dmg files you may have unintentionally stored on your Mac. Now, let’s see how to delete them.

First, you need to eject those .dmg files that are still open.

1. Open Finder.
2. Under the Locations you will see the list of all .dmg files.
3. Press the Eject icon to eject a disk image.

To delete .dmg files:

1. Open Finder.
2. Type “.dmg” in the search field and press Return.
3. Move the unneeded files to the Trash.

Voila! Now, your Mac is much cleaner.

How to clear downloads history in Chrome

To clear downloads history in Google Chrome browser manually:

1. Launch the Chrome browser.
2. Type chrome://history/ in the search field and press Enter.
3. Select Clear browsing data.
4. Select the time range and check the 'Download history' box.
5. Click Clear data.

How to clean downloads history in Safari

To clean downloads history in Safari browser:

1. Launch the Safari browser.
2. Click View in the menu bar and select Show Downloads.
3. Safari will show you all the files you downloaded. Press Clear to remove downloads history.

You can alternatively press the arrow down button (↓) to see and clear downloads.

Clearing your Mac of downloads once in a while helps to save some space. If you are up to a full spring cleaning of your MacBook, CleanMyMac X has another useful feature — Space Lens. It analyses your storage and shows precisely how much space each folder takes. If your Mac is short on space, Space Lens can help you to locate the heaviest folder and remove it. Download the app for free, to try it yourself!

How to remove downloads history in Firefox

To remove downloads history in Firefox directly:

1. Launch the Firefox browser.
2. Click History, in the menu bar.
3. Select Clear Recent History.
4. Select the time range.
5. Check the “Browsing & Download History” box.
6. Click Clear Now.

Now, your Mac is probably clean of old downloads that used to take space. Keeping your digital space tidy and organized will help you locate files faster and avoid clutter in your folders.

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The previous stable release of GIMP was 2.8.22 (2017-05-11).

If you're looking for the current stable GIMP 2.10.22 release instead, you can find it on our downloads page.

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GIMP for Unix-like systems

The flatpak link above should open your software installer and prompt you to install GIMP (available platforms: i386, x86-64, ARM and AArch64). It may not work out-of-the-box on some platforms since the flatpak technology is new. If that is the case, ensure flatpak is installed and if clicking the link still does not prompt to install GIMP, then manually install by command line:

flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref

The flatpak build is very new and therefore may have shortcomings. It's very likely your Unix-like system distribution already comes with a GIMP package. It is the preferred method of installing GIMP, as the distribution maintainers take care of all the dependencies and bug fix updates. Nevertheless, note that many distros decide to pin a specific version of GIMP to their releases, whereas our flatpak will follow GIMP releases closely.

GIMP can also run on Solaris and is available for the BSD family of systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

Please refer to the documentation for your Unix-like system on the installation of software.

GIMP for macOS

The download links above will attempt to download GIMP from one of our trusted mirror servers. If the mirrors do not work or you would rather download directly from our server, you can get the direct download here.

Since the 2.8.2 version, GIMP runs on OSX natively. No X11 environment is required.

Native build

The official GIMP 2.8 DMG installer (linked above) is a stock GIMP build without any add-ons. It works on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and later. Just open the downloaded DMG and drag and drop GIMP into your 'Applications' folder.

The MD5 hash sum for gimp-2.8.22-x86_64.dmg is: 2d314ae82f686ea15a681c32b5891e20

Older Downloads

Previous installers for OSX can be found here: download.gimp.org.

Macports

An easy way to compile and install GIMP and other great Free software on your Mac is by using Macports. The installer allows you to choose from a large directory of packages. To install gimp using Macports, you simply do sudo port install gimp once you have Macports installed.

Last we checked, the GIMP port file pointed to the current stable release and we have reports from people who've built GIMP successfully this way.

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Homebrew

Homebrew is similar to Macports and provides packages (aka formulas) to install, either by compiling them from source or by using pre-made binaries. There are indications that there is now a formula for GIMP, installable with: brew tap caskroom/cask && brew cask install gimp.

Fink

Fink is a package repository that offer mostly precompiled binaries. It provides the apt-get command known to e.g. Debian and Ubuntu users, and installing GIMP is as easy as sudo apt-get install gimp once you have installed the Fink installer.
If there's no binary package, then fink install gimp will compile GIMP from source.

Disclaimer: we haven't been able to determine if it is possible to install or build recent GIMP from Fink. Last we checked, GIMP 2.6.12 appears to be the most recent GIMP package that is offered there.

GIMP for Windows

The download links above will attempt to download GIMP from one of our trusted mirror servers. If the mirrors do not work or you would rather download directly from our server, you can get the direct download here.

These links download the official GIMP installer for Windows (~140-150 MB). The installer contains both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of GIMP, and will automatically use the appropriate one.

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing system. It works by downloading GIMP from a distributed network of BitTorrent users, and may improve download speed dramatically. Choosing this option will download the torrent file for the GIMP installer. You may need to install a torrent client to make use of this file. Learn more...

MD5 Hash Sum

The MD5 hash sum for gimp-2.8.22-setup.exe is: 8e54225029a44ab6ef1fde09686fec7b

Older Downloads

Previous installers for Windows can be found here: download.gimp.org.

GIMP User Manual

These links download language-specific Windows installers for GIMP's local help. By default, they will place the help files with your GIMP installation.

Note: GIMP uses online help by default. If you want to use this local help offline, you will need to change GIMP's help settings.

1. In GIMP, select [Edit] > [Preferences] > [Help System]
2. For 'User manual', select 'Use a locally installed copy'
3. Under 'Help Browser', you can choose between your system's web browser and GIMP's help browser plugin (if available).

See the online help for more settings.

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Source for version 2.8 (Stable)

GIMP releases available from gimp.org and its mirrors contain the source code and have to be compiled in order to be installed on your system.

For instructions, how to build GIMP from source code, please see this page.

GIMP 2.8.22 is now available at https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.8/. You may want to read the Release Notes for GIMP 2.8.

To allow you to check the integrity of the tarballs, here are the MD5 sums of the latest releases:

gimp-2.8.22.tar.bz2
7e4fd7a53b1d3c32dff642ab1a94b44d

gimp-2.8.20.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.18.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.16.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.14.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.12.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.10.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.8.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.6.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.4.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.2.tar.bz2
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gimp-2.8.0.tar.bz2
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GIMP help files are available at https://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/help/.

Please consider using one of the mirrors listed below.

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Development snapshots

We now have a separate page for development versions of GIMP.

Want to check out the GIMP 2.99.2 development release?
Get it on our development downloads page.

FTP and Web Mirrors

We had a server move a while back that caused us to lose our existing mirrors (moved from physical to virtual server and to an environment that doesn't allow FTP access). On the plus side, we are now able to offer rsync access to download.gimp.org.

If you are running one of the existing GIMP mirrors, or want to create a new one, please contact us to get your rsync credentials.

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https://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/sites/gimp.org/pub/gimp/

ftp://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/gimp.org/pub/gimp/

rsync://mirrors.ukfast.co.uk/gimp.org/pub/gimp/

Denmark

https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/gimp/gimp/

ftp://mirrors.dotsrc.org/gimp/

rsync://mirrors.dotsrc.org/gimp/

Finland

https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/

rsync://rsync.nic.funet.fi/ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.gimp.org/

France

http://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/gimp/

ftp://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/gimp/

rsync://ftp.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/gimp/

Germany

https://ftp.fau.de/gimp/gimp/

ftp://ftp.fau.de/gimp/gimp/

rsync://ftp.fau.de/gimp/

https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/misc/grafik/gimp/

https://artfiles.org/gimp.org/pub/gimp/

Greece

https://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/gimp/

ftp://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/gimp/

Japan

http://www.ring.gr.jp/pub/graphics/gimp/

Netherlands

https://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/gimp/gimp/

ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/software/gimp/gimp/

Philippines

http://mirror.rise.ph/gimp/

ftp://mirror.rise.ph/gimp/

Poland

https://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/

ftp://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/

rsync://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/graphics/gimp/

gopher://ftp.icm.edu.pl/1/pub/graphics/gimp/

Sweden

https://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/gimp/

ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/gimp

rsync://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/gimp

Ukraine

https://gimp.ip-connect.info/gimp/

rsync://gimp.ip-connect.info/gimp/

ftp://gimp.ip-connect.info/mirror/gimp/

https://mirror.klaus-uwe.me/gimp/gimp/

ftp://mirror.klaus-uwe.me/gimp/

rsync://mirror.klaus-uwe.me/gimp/

United Kingdom

https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/

ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/

rsync://rsync.mirrorservice.org/ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/

United States

https://mirror.jaleco.com/gimp/gimp/

https://mirror.umd.edu/gimp/gimp/

http://gimp.cp-dev.com/

ftp://devhost.cp-dev.com/gimp

rsync://gimp.cp-dev.com/gimp

https://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/gimp/gimp/

ftp://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/gimp/

rsync://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/gimp/

https://mirrors.xmission.com/gimp/gimp/

ftp://mirrors.xmission.com/gimp/gimp/