How do I get more space on my startup disk

How do I get more space on my startup disk?

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
  1. See Lion's Storage Display.
  2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
  3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
  4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
  5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
  6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

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  • I got my first macbook air about a year ago. awhile ago i started getting these notifications saying "your startup disk is almost full" or "your startup disk is full". i was wondering how to get more space on my startup disk, if that is possible?

    i got my first macbook air about a year ago. awhile ago i started getting these notifications saying "your startup disk is almost full" or "your startup disk is full". i was wondering how to get more space on my startup disk, if that is possible?

    Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
      1. See Lion's Storage Display.
      2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
      3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
      4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
      5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
      6. See The Storage Display.
    You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
    You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.

  • How do i make more space on my startup disk

    how do i make more space on my startup disk

    Check the information contained in this thread: How do I make more space on my startup disk?
    Please let us know if that helps.

  • How do I get more space to update my iPhone 4 to iOS7? I am currently on iOS 6.1.3 with 6.3 GB capacity, 1.4 GB available AFTER deleting all apps, photos, music, and videos, and I need 3.8 GB.

    How do I get more space to update my iPhone 4 to iOS7? I am currently on iOS 6.1.3 with 6.3 GB capacity, 1.4 GB available AFTER deleting all apps, photos, music, and videos, and I need 3.8 GB.

    Update using iTunes on your computer. The space requirement does not apply because of how the process works via iTunes as opposed to over the air.

  • How can I get more space out of my Firefox browser?

    I would just like to get more space out of the ff browser at the top, seems that is a waste of space, so i could have more internet space ON MY LAPTOP
    HERE'S A SCREENSHOT OF WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT :-)

    Seems confusing, i don't want to auto hide the toolbar, or have to hit f11, just want to clean it up, make it smaller, how do i do that, please a step by step, im new at this! :-)

  • How to make more space on my startup disk

    I keep getting messages that I don't have enought space on my startup disk, I was wondering if I can download
    a program so see how I can clean it up, or see which files are using most of my disk to delete them or
    to put them in an external hard drive!

    see here: http://guides.macrumors.com/Freeing_Up_Hard_Disk_Space.  Also, you can download omnidiscsweeper http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/.  You can also download disk doctor from the app store.

  • How do I get things out of my startup disk?

    I have a 2007 MacBook and i am getting the message that my startup disk is full.  However, I do not know how to find out what is in my startup disk so that I can figure out what to delete.  Can anyone help?
    Thanks.
    PennUVA

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  • How do I get more space in a "Documents" window?

    I wonder if someone can help me with this. I recently upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.9. When I open, for example, the "Documents" window and find the page is full with folders/files I place the arrow cursor in the bottom right hand corner and move the window up. I then pull the scroll bar down, place the arrow cursor in the bottom right hand corner and pull the window down. Under 10.3.9 the folders/files would stay where they were and I would get more free space. Under 10.4.9 it doesn't do that; pulling the window down means pulling everything else down as well. So the window remains full with folder/files all the time. Is there a way of changing it as it was under 10.3.9?

    Open the window, hit the end key, and expand the window, via the lower right-hand corner triangle. Works here and always has in Tiger. If that doesn't work on your machine, then I suspect a corrupt preference file. Create a new admin user account, log into, and see if the problem exists there. If not, then it's one of the preference files listed in the new account's /Library/Preferences/ folder that's screwy. Make a list of them, log back into the old account, move the same one's, one at a time, to the Desktop, OPTION-click the Dock's Finder icon, and select Relaunch. Do that until you isolate the one's that are causing the problem. Start with the com.apple.finder.plist.

  • How do you get more space on your harddrive?

    Someone showed me one time how to change my harddrive to open up more space on it and I can't remember how

    Well, the only way is to remove files. Preferably files that you no longer need or want.
    My advice would be to download and install OmniDiskSweeper, which tells you where your largest files and folders are. You can then decide which files can be wiped. It's a really good idea to have a backup of everything, just in case you change your mind later.
    Of course, you may decide that you can't delete anything, in which case your recourse would be to install a larger hard drive.
    Matt

  • How can i get more space on my macbook air?

    with a few songs and photos it's saying i no longer have space so i'm wondering
    if there's a way to get more memory

    Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
      1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
      2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
      3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
      4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
      5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
      6. See The Storage Display.
    You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
    You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
    Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

  • Hi, i got a Mac OS X version 10.5.8, how can i get more space to be able to download photoshop on my mac?

    Just bought Adobe photoshop element 11...i need to find more space on my Mac OS X version 10.5.8, can i do that
    with up grading to snow leopard or what's my option?

    Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
      1. See Lion/Mountain Lion's Storage Display.
      2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
      3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
      4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
      5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
      6. See The Storage Display.
    You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
    You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
    Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

  • How do I create more space on my hard disk?

    What's the best way to clean out my harddrive to create more room. How do I know what caches I can get rid of what I need to keep. Is there a good program to improve performance and clean out to make more space. Please advise. I have never "cleaned" my macbook and I know it needs it.

    While deleting caches is normally safe, see Myth #4.
    Note that your Library folder contains all of you Mail and attachments. If you've got a lot of email with large attachments, you can really fill up the Library folder.
    Your user installed Fonts and Log files are also in there. If you have a program that is constantly writing log entries without cleaning it up, it could create a large file after a short time.
    The Cache folder on my system is 1.22 GB with the total Library of 2 GB.
    Everything else in there shouldn't be taking up much space.

  • HT201364 How can i free up space on my startup disk to install OS X Mavericks?

    How can i free up space on my start up disk to install the OS X Mavericks software?

    For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article.
    Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
    iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
    Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space. Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature.
    According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
    If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
    See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
    You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
    Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
    Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
    ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
    Back up all data now.
    If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
    Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
    Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
    sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
    Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
    Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
    The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size with the largest at the top. It may take a few minutes for ODS to finish scanning your files.
    I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
    When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

  • How do i free up space on my startup disk?

    I'm trying to do a software update and I'm getting the message "Please free up some space on your startup diak". How do I do this with my MacBook Pro?
    Thanks!

    Excellent resource here:
    Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk

  • How can I get more space?

    I was out of memory space so I purchased 200GB on my iPhone but when I try to take pictures it still says there is not enough available storage.
    In Settings it says I have 187 of 200GB available. But under storage it says 0 Bytes remaining. I have already charged my phone while connected to wifi twice and have no idea if anything has been transferring to this imaginary cloud. How can I use the GB I purchased?

    Im confused I thought iCloud was to transfer data from my phone there so I can have more room on my phone.
    I Can't transfer anything from my phone to my desktop because it says another apple product is already registered to that computer

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