Best way to free disk space/memory?

Need to free up disk space/memory in order to back-up my iPhone 4 before switching to the iPhone 6. More PC than Mac, where do I look, and what is safe to delete from my computer? I don't know what is using all the space.

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Help here > Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
Just so you are aware, your Mac must be running v10.6.8 or later to backup an iPhone 4 and syncing an iPhone 6 > Apple - iPhone 6 - Technical Specifications

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I can't update my iphone with the 6.0 because I don't have enough memory. Whats the best way to free up space? I have already deleted some pictures and music..

Delete whatever files you don't need anymore and transfer data to an external hard drive. You can download and run OmniDiskSweeper. This application shows you all the files on your harddrive and what files are taking up the most space, just open the application and run it on your hardrive.

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I am still having problems in iDVD. I have created a movie in Final Cut Express HD. I am able to create a DVD in iDVD. I have burned a copy of half of my movie. Ever since I burned this I am getting messages saying "not enough free disk space." I realize that I need more space and I have about 400 Gig's free in a Lacie external hard drive. I was told to free up space by moving my start up drive to the Lacie. Or possibly just moving other things there. I am not sure what to move to my external hard drive or how to do that. If anyone has any suggestions, I would really appreciate them. thanks
Zach Schuler

I keep my operating system on one drive and my media on other drives. So, how large is your boot drive and how much free space is currently on it? Next, find the files in your home directory (this will be non-system files) and start to move them to the LaCie drive. The problem will be with iLife files: iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie and so on, They will continue to look for your media in the "default" location. You can change this, here is one example:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301748
Once you have your media copied (just drag & drop) and "re-connected" you can delete it off the boot drive thereby freeing up all that space.
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I have an external hard drive with several hundred gigs available, and my computer itself only has 1 or 2. I want to open up some space but I don't know what files I should move. I still want to be able to use it without the hard drive, so like nothing that is essential for running my computer.
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Cornelius,
"Fools rush in..." something this fool is frequently guilty of to be sure.
My initial thought here was to just clarify the circumstances under which Apple would keep the hard drive, and then I got off on a tangent, as I am often prone to do, wanting to give the OP another option to consider.
My feeling is with a user replaceable item, the genius bar would replace the hard drive for no charge, just as it would install RAM for someone who wasn't comfortable doing it himself or herself. The only charge would be for the hard drive itself. Under these circumstances, I don't think there would be any reason for Apple to keep the old hard drive. The genius could also format the new drive and clone the old one to it.
One thing I'm also wondering--would the OP have enough room now to download something like Disk Inventory X or OmniDiskSweeper and see what is really eating up the space?
http://www.derlien.com/
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/
It's conceivable that there might be a big file of U-Tube videos or something like that which could safely be transferred to the external and free up a significant amount of space. Of course the genius could also see what is taking up the space and would be able to identify what is safe to move to the external.
My sense of it is that the OP is feeling a bit overwhelmed at this point, so getting help at the Apple Store as you suggested may be the best thing to do.

Best ways to get disk space back

I need suggestions for clearing unnecessary items from my 60GB internal HD. I have 5.4GB left given that iTunes and iPhoto are getting so big, but need to work from internal for efficiency.
I have 1.5TB of external storage and use it for iMovie etc.
I clear my iDVD projects from documents folder after use by storing them on the external and I do other items like that as well.
iTunes = 4.46GB and iPhoto = 10.71MB
I notice that my library contains 9.41GB and a lot of the files are small, but many small items take big spaces. The modem scripts folder is only 1.8MB but most are unnecessary for example. I use Airport Extreme and Express with high speed connection.
I have run clean up programs such as:
Delocalizer, Onyx, Mac Janitor and Tiger Cashe Cleaner, but still need much more to run iDVD projects etc.
I have also deleted all printer items that I don’t use from the ‘printers’ folder. I left only Epson and HP. That helped a little.
The ‘Receipts’ folder is 137.6MB but I really don’t know what if any I should remove from it.
Any other suggestions?
Harold

Hi, Harold.
See my "Freeing Space on your Mac OS X startup disk" FAQ.
Good luck!
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What is the best way to free up memory easily?

what is the best way to free up memory easily? I have a fairly typical makeup of iTunes music, iMovie, iPhoto files, which is best to attack?
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If you're talking Hard Drive space, you'll want to start just by deleting the largest of files. Try removing movies first, as they're usually in the Gigs of data, since they contain video and audio. If you're storing original photos those can be as large as 8mb/each photo, and if you've taken hundreds, they add up quickly. Try saving them as smaller sizes, or deleting unwanted photos, and lastly, songs do take up space, but depending on the quality, duration and file type will be anywhere from 30kb to 10mb.
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Hi,
I'm wondering if you might be able to help me - I'm so confused with this issue.
I have a MacBook 2008 with an upgraded 320GB HDD, with currently 203GB free disk space.
My back up disk is 120GB - perfect for a time machine back up of 117 GB of data. However, the TM says theres not enough memory because the full size of the back is 150GB? How can this be?
For some reason, the free disk space figure is different to the memory usage figures in About My Mac?
Can anyone explain to me why this is?
My other half uses this computer and has only pictures and files on it, no music or movies? So how can she have utilised 117GB of data? This was previously a shared Mac, but I've deleted my user acc since upgrading and wanted to make this Mac entirely hers.
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CarbonCopyClone. It is "donateware" ... pay if you want to. Others use SuperDuper! (both a free and a paid version). I prefer CCC, but do not let that stop you from paying for SuperDuper if others convince you as both are very competent.
It makes a bootable copy of your system partition, and used repeatedly will make "incremental" backups that take far less time than the original backup. I have a TimeMachine backup (I consider it "secondary") and a CCC backup whic I consider "primary" and will eventually save me when my system partition gets cranky and refuses to boot -- use the option key at startup to choose the external disk to boot from.
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buy an external HD 1TB for $60
NO notebook is a mass storage device, so dont try to turn it into one, it doesnt work that way.
Unless youre using it every couple weeks, its static data and should be on an external HD
In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace. You should never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’.
Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their computers internal HD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD.
Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your macbook has a HD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your computer to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.

Free disk space recommendation

Hi,
I have a question about free disk space recommendation. My system now has <25% free space at ASP3, I can't see any problems until now, but I think that I can some troubles in the future depending on DB growth, it isn't?
Have you any tip about this? Are there any recommendation in IBM i5 redbooks?
Thank you!
Best Regards,
André Honma

Generally you do not want to go much higher than 70 to 80% utilization.
This is because the system may need the free space for system operations, temporary storage and to allow for spikes in storage that may occur when processing heavy workloads, such as temporary work space or for transient files, journal receivers, system logs and spool entries (QSPL as opposed to SAP's own spooling).
Certain systems functions, such as dedicated physical file reorganizations, have specific minimum requirements with respect to the need for free space.
At this point, you are at 75% utilization which puts you right in the middle of the range where you really want to examine what is going on.
Usually when you hit 90% or above you will start to get messages from the OS about high storage.
You can free up space in several ways.   Only keep journal receivers for as long as you need them.   Once they are detached and saved offline (tape/remote jounals etc) they can be deleted.   You need to have a strategy in place for this, however.   Our shop archives a full save on a weekly basis, and all journal receivers up to that point (with a small margin retained for visibility) are deleted.
In addition, we use Datamirror's High Availability product which scrapes the journal receivers to mirror the production system on a hot backup.   The receivers must remain on the system until they are replicated (this is also true for other High Availability products).   This is usually near real-time, but it can be an issue if you do not manage it properly. (Given our weekly archive strategy, this is not an overriding consideration for us, but it may be important for those with a different strategy.)
SAP uses the reuse deleted records feature of DB2, but sometimes excessive amounts of deleted records build up due to spikes, especially in files like VBDATA and related files, or after purging older transaction history or deleting old clients.   You can periodically reorganize physical files to reclaim deleted space.
You can also use RCLSTG (Reclaim storage) and RCLSPLSTG (Reclaim Spool Storage) to reclaim some temporary space.
However, RCLSTG should only be used if there is a specific need for it, as outlined in IBM's technical note: <a href="http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/0/9373303619fb4b89862565c2007d4bcf?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=1">Overview of the RCLSTG Command</a>
Periodic IPLs will also reclaim space, including spool space as if RCLSPLSTG had been run..
If you have other libraries on your system, you can also see if they are being managed wisely using the same ideas as you would use for your SAP libraries.
Within SAP itself there are tools to manage tables that are within the scope of you various SIDs and clients.    When SAP purges data, however, it only does a soft delete via DB2 SQL, and a physical file reorg as noted above may be required to reclaim space at the OS level.
As the previous respondent noted, you should keep track of the growth of your system and then take whatever steps are necessary to bring storage down or increase storage.
You may also want to consider your storage strategy.   We had been using full mirroring, and we were able to increase our effective storage by going to RAID-5, and therefore put off the need to buy more disk for a time.
Good luck.
Brian
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IDVD not enough free disk space

iDVD is giving me the error: not enough free disk space for encoding assets when I try to burn a disk or create a disk image. After reading other posts the issue seems to be not enough memory on the computers hard drive, but there is 174.73 GB of space remaining...
All of the files for the dvd (photos, imovie file, clips, music, ect) are saved on a thumb stick for security. I can't think of why it would not be able to burn.
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All of the files for the dvd (photos, imovie file, clips, music, ect) are saved on a thumb stick for security
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