Blue screen after login and HD and startup disk is full -how to erase data?
Blue screen after login and Hard drive and startup disk is full -How do I get in to erase data?
this user tip might help:
Your Mac needs adequate hard drive space to operate normally. How full can a drive be before it's too full? There is no hard and fast rule that says “X” amount or “%” of free drive space is needed. A low amount of RAM requires more drive space for Virtual Memory’s swap files.
Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space are discussed in this link
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/lackofram.html
Here’s some general guidelines for minimum hard drive free space:
1. As a general rule, your available space should be 5GB as an absolute minimum as it generally requires that much free space to perform an Archive and Install of Mac OS X and still preserve some free space for VM swap files.
2. Some say that your hard drive should have at least 5% of it's capacity available for use. Still others say 10% to 15%. If you routinely process complex graphics and videos, even more space is required.
Look at these links about freeing up more space.
Where did my disk space go?
_*http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243*_
Download & use WhatSize described in this link or Disk Inventory X @ _*http://www.derlien.com/*_
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
_*http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html*_
Amazing Disappearing Drive Space
_*http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html*_
Increase HD Free Space
_*http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/275191-how-easily-increase-hd-free-space-lap top.html*_
How to free up my disk space
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
JGG
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My mac air says " startup disk is full".How to solve ???
My Mac air has a message during starting the computer and says that startup disk if full. In the composition of my hard there are 120 GB used space on other parts, which I have not understand where is these files.
First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
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 available 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.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
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.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the 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 not to screw up. 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. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the 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. -
My macbook will not boot. It goes to a blue screen after the logo and wheel goes off. I have taken the battery out and held the on/off button for five seconds and reset the PRAM. I have the the original os disk but have not put it in for fear of losing un backed op data.
Thanks
RichYou won't lose any data unless you erase your hard drive.
Put your install DVD into the optical drive and reboot. As soon as you hear the boot chime, hold down the "c"key on your keyboard (or the Option key until the Install Disk shows up). That will force your MacBook to boot from the install DVD in the optical drive.
When it does start up, you'll see a panel asking you to choose your language. Choose your language and press the Return key on your keyboard once. It will then present you with an Installation window. Completely ignore this window and click on Utilities in the top menu and scroll down to Disk Utility and click it.When it comes up is your Hard Drive in the list on the left?
If it is then click on the Mac OS partition of your hard drive in the left hand list. Then select the First Aid Tab and run Repair Disk. The Repair Disk button won't be available until you've selected the Mac OS partition on your hard drive. If that repairs any problems run it again until the green OK appears and then run Repair Permissions. -
I Keep getting "your startup disk is full" ..... "You need to make more space available on your startup disk by deleting file..." If I can't have an acess, how can I delete files. Please help..
That means the hard drive of your computer is full, and you don't have enough free space on your computer, to do what you are trying to do.
You need to clear up space on your computer.
If you hard drive is full, check the following places to ensure they are not holding unwanted data.
- your trash can in the dock
- if you use iPhoto, your trash in iPhoto - launch iPhoto, and select trash in the left hand column. iPhoto has it's own trash, and is often overlooked
- your download folder - finder / home user / downloads - every time you download something, it stores it here. This is often overlooked as well
- do you have more than one user on the computer? If you do, ensure they are needed. If not, delete them, and the contents of their home folders
If you hard drive is very full, you may want to consider the following:
- putting in a newer larger hard drive - (call you local apple store for prices on this)
- deleting data off your computer
- moving data to an external drive - (iPhoto Libraries, iTunes Libraries or iMovie events, as they are the biggest space hogs) -
My startup disk is full: how do I clean it up? Simply deleting some files does not help.
I get the message that my startup disk is full. It says to delete some files to make more space; but after deleting some files, this message will reappear again after a while. What else can be done?
I hope you haven't removed anything that involves the system.
I hope you haven't remove things willy nilly, either.
Here are some general tips to keep your Mac's hard drive trim and slim as possible
You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER!
With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.
If it does, it's time for some hard drive housecleaning.
Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.
Have you emptied your Mac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.
Look through your other Mailboxes and other Mail categories to see If there is other mail you can archive and/or delete.
STAY AWAY FROM DELETING ANY FILES FROM OS X SYSTEM FOLDER!
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.
To find other large files, download an app called Omni Disk Sweeper.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its initial automatic tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the maintenance tabs that let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
Good Luck! -
My startup disk is full, how do I Repair it
I have a iMac and a macBook. Both are displaying a message that the startup disk is full. I would like to fix this problem, but I’m afraid that I might do more damage then good. Is there anyone that can walk me through it so that when I’m done I don’t have to take them into the apple store because I messed them up more..
Thanks,Maybe it would be a good idea to have someone do this for you, but if you really want to do it, then
1. Make sure you are logged into an account which does NOT have admin rights. Just in case you try to do bad things to important system files, this will stop you. If you get a message saying you have to put in an admin's userid and password, you are probably trying to do bad things. Don't do it!
2. Take backups of what you have. You do have a good multi-method backup regime, don't you?
3. Look for data which you truly don't want, and never will, and delete it. Empty the trash.
4. If you now have enough free space on your boot disk (say 20%), then you are nearly done, but not quite
5. If you couldn't find enough files and folders to trash, then decide which you'd be happy to move to an external drive. Copy them there (not to one of your backup drives, please!), and trash the copy on the boot drive
6. When you have reduced the clutter on the boot drive and have a good lot of free space, then you have one remaining problem. Since the drives got to be nearly full, you will probably have caused bad fragmentation of your boot drive files and free space. Either use a defrag program or make a clone copy of the boot drive, boot from the clone and clone back to the internal drive, then boot from it. Make sure you always have a good backup or two along the way. Consider upgrading the capacity of the boot drives during this process. -
Blue Screen at login if printer and TM in USB ports
I recently started experiencing a bizarre problem I have never had at login after a restart or shut down. I first realized something was weird when my wireless keyboard was no longer working properly in that the bluetooth would randomly lose the signal and batteries were fresh. After purchasing a new apple keyboard I realized something was wrong with the computer itself, not the keyboard. This is what happens:
Normally when it loads up, I go to the white screen with the turn wheel, then a sky blue screen, then the login window where i enter my password and the nice leopard thing in the background, then loads my wallpaper and you know it works. But recently, the white screen stays on abnormally long then it goes to the blue screen where it gets stuck. No error messages or anything. I can't put the computer to sleep or type anything. So I pull the plug or hold the power button to restart. What I realized is that anytime something was in the USB ports, it wouldn't go past the blue screen. I was running time machine on a lacie hard drive, an HP printer, an iphone and ipod nano. The weird thing is that if just my iphone is plugged in, it will load, BUT if the printer and time machine are plugged in, it gets stuck. I tried just the printer and just the time machine separetly without the iphone, and it still does not load. Just the iPhone, it loads perfectly. When it does load I plug the time machine back in and printer back in. The printer works fine. The time machine just says preparing for about half an hour until it just says "Latest Backup: --" in the top window bar.
I did repair permissions twice, then did it with the leopard dvd, then did it on the time machine and no luck. I checked the power supply in the back and all the LED lights came on so nothing wrong with power. The Internal Hard drive doesn't sound abnormal. I checked the console during the start up period and it says a lot of these messages: "
4/1/08 12:28:51 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] Break on _THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___Y OU_MUST_EXEC_() to debug.
4/1/08 12:28:51 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
4/1/08 12:28:51 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] Break on _THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___Y OU_MUST_EXEC_() to debug.
4/1/08 12:28:52 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[114]) posix_spawn("/Applications/CheckUp.app/Contents/MacOS/CheckUpAgent", ...): No such file or directory
4/1/08 12:28:52 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[114]) Exited with exit code: 1
4/1/08 12:28:52 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/1/08 12:28:58 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] qmasterd: terminated due to signal().
4/1/08 12:29:02 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[116]) posix_spawn("/Applications/CheckUp.app/Contents/MacOS/CheckUpAgent", ...): No such file or directory
4/1/08 12:29:02 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[116]) Exited with exit code: 1
4/1/08 12:29:02 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/1/08 12:29:12 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[117]) posix_spawn("/Applications/CheckUp.app/Contents/MacOS/CheckUpAgent", ...): No such file or directory
4/1/08 12:29:12 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[117]) Exited with exit code: 1
4/1/08 12:29:12 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/1/08 12:29:13 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[82]) Exited: Terminated
4/1/08 12:29:13 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[118] launchctl: Couldn't stat("/etc/machinit_peruser.d"): No such file or directory
Then it goes on and on about throttling respawn
I have iMac G5 2 GHz 1.5 GB RAM no internal isight.
If you have any suggestions I would really appreciate it.
ChrisI recently started experiencing a bizarre problem I have never had at login after a restart or shut down. I first realized something was weird when my wireless keyboard was no longer working properly in that the bluetooth would randomly lose the signal and batteries were fresh. After purchasing a new apple keyboard I realized something was wrong with the computer itself, not the keyboard. This is what happens:
Normally when it loads up, I go to the white screen with the turn wheel, then a sky blue screen, then the login window where i enter my password and the nice leopard thing in the background, then loads my wallpaper and you know it works. But recently, the white screen stays on abnormally long then it goes to the blue screen where it gets stuck. No error messages or anything. I can't put the computer to sleep or type anything. So I pull the plug or hold the power button to restart. What I realized is that anytime something was in the USB ports, it wouldn't go past the blue screen. I was running time machine on a lacie hard drive, an HP printer, an iphone and ipod nano. The weird thing is that if just my iphone is plugged in, it will load, BUT if the printer and time machine are plugged in, it gets stuck. I tried just the printer and just the time machine separetly without the iphone, and it still does not load. Just the iPhone, it loads perfectly. When it does load I plug the time machine back in and printer back in. The printer works fine. The time machine just says preparing for about half an hour until it just says "Latest Backup: --" in the top window bar.
I did repair permissions twice, then did it with the leopard dvd, then did it on the time machine and no luck. I checked the power supply in the back and all the LED lights came on so nothing wrong with power. The Internal Hard drive doesn't sound abnormal. I checked the console during the start up period and it says a lot of these messages: "
4/1/08 12:28:51 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] Break on _THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___Y OU_MUST_EXEC_() to debug.
4/1/08 12:28:51 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] The process has forked and you cannot use this CoreFoundation functionality safely. You MUST exec().
4/1/08 12:28:51 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] Break on _THE_PROCESS_HAS_FORKED_AND_YOU_CANNOT_USE_THIS_COREFOUNDATION_FUNCTIONALITY___Y OU_MUST_EXEC_() to debug.
4/1/08 12:28:52 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[114]) posix_spawn("/Applications/CheckUp.app/Contents/MacOS/CheckUpAgent", ...): No such file or directory
4/1/08 12:28:52 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[114]) Exited with exit code: 1
4/1/08 12:28:52 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/1/08 12:28:58 AM com.apple.SystemStarter[18] qmasterd: terminated due to signal().
4/1/08 12:29:02 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[116]) posix_spawn("/Applications/CheckUp.app/Contents/MacOS/CheckUpAgent", ...): No such file or directory
4/1/08 12:29:02 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[116]) Exited with exit code: 1
4/1/08 12:29:02 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/1/08 12:29:12 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[117]) posix_spawn("/Applications/CheckUp.app/Contents/MacOS/CheckUpAgent", ...): No such file or directory
4/1/08 12:29:12 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent[117]) Exited with exit code: 1
4/1/08 12:29:12 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.app4mac.CheckUpAgent) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
4/1/08 12:29:13 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow[82]) Exited: Terminated
4/1/08 12:29:13 AM com.apple.launchctl.Aqua[118] launchctl: Couldn't stat("/etc/machinit_peruser.d"): No such file or directory
Then it goes on and on about throttling respawn
I have iMac G5 2 GHz 1.5 GB RAM no internal isight.
If you have any suggestions I would really appreciate it.
Chris -
Satellite L500 - blank blue screen after login to Win 7
Hi
I have this laptop and i can start up the laptop and it loads fine to the login page i then can login but when the screens opens after login it appears as a blank blue screen with the document folder open i have no background picture and no startup menu nothing else except the document folder.
From there i can access my files etc and anything else internet etc everything but i dont know how to get the screen back to normal.
If i go on background display i can see the image that should be on the background and change it but nothing happens on the full screen.
I have no restore point as yet as new laptop for xmas, i do have backup discs but think its just something to do with the display.
If go into files and folders it shows me the icons on the desktop but all i see is this blank screen.
Any ideas please, if not would restore files work or full back up disc
Thanks very much for any helpHi
Check this:
Click right on the desktop and choose Personalize.
There you should check the area: Basis design and design with high contrast
Choose Windows 7 basic.
Then reboot the unit.
Usually this should help to get the Windows 7 common design and desktop settings.
But if this will not help then you could use an fast solution which would be a usage of the recovery disk of HDD recovery option.
This would format the HDD and would reinstall everything again -
Can't see desktop with blue screen after login
Hi
we have a server 2008 ent SP2 that sometimes when use remote desktop or via vmware console to access this server, after login we got blue screen and can't see desktop. after force reboot it recovery.
From application log, we find some error:
Description (Event ID: 1000):
Faulting application Explorer.EXE, version 6.0.6002.18005, time stamp 0x49e01da5, faulting module msshsq.dll, version 7.0.6002.18255, time stamp 0x4be071d5, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset
0x000063fd, process id 0x1300, application start time 0x01cf9a43236d46dd.
Description(Event ID: 9009):
The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x40010004)
Description(Event ID: 1530):
Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.
DETAIL -
1 user registry handles leaked from \Registry\User\S-1-5-21-249263827-1212357926-315576832-391740:
Process 3812 (\Device\HarddiskVolume1\Windows\System32\winlogon.exe) has opened key \REGISTRY\USER\S-1-5-21-249263827-1212357926-315576832-391740Hi,
In general, event ID 1530 means there are some data in the user profile are still be accessed when the user log
off from the Terminal Server. Please check if any of the data is still remained in the user profile supposed to be deleted. You can use Process Monitor or Process Explorer in order to find the software which is using the data and find the solution. If there
is no such data remained, the Windows have possibly stopped the process and deleted the data when log off. In such a case, you can ignore the Event 1530.
In addition, I recommend running SFC /Scannow from an elevated command prompt and check a dump file for Windows
Explorer under C:\Localdumps.
Besides, you can also download
Autoruns to troubleshooting Explorer issues. Please run Autoruns as Administrator, go to Options menu, Filter, select Hide Microsoft Entries and Ok. After that, open the Explorer tab,
and you will see all DLL that are running inside File Explorer, so start disabling and testing if Explorer crashed.
Furthermore, the KB below may be helpful:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/961038/en-us
Best regards,
Susie -
I updated my macbook air software and somehow my startup disk is full.
I have about 50Gigs of "other". How do I fix this. The "other" are not things that belong to me as I do not store anything on my macbook... As a result I keep getting "startup disk full" error messages and I cannot download the newest update or the new iTunes to sync my mini. Thanks!
First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB free on the startup volume for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data.
Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can 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.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
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.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual.
Launch the 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.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then drag or copy — do not type — into the Terminal window:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Press return. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.
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 you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal. -
Imovie won't let me save my movie as a file, and it says ''startup disk'' is full!
I made a movie on Imovie and it won't let me download or convert, I don't know what else I can do, and also it says my disk is full, and my macbook is 64 and its impossible, i dont have that much. please help me. I want to save my movie and fix disk because is making my computer slower and doesn't let me save anything because is ''full''. I need to find a way to save the movie complete and as a file and make my computer faster and with it's original memory.
HELP!.I have the same problem and then some. I movie won't share this particular project, but it also won't save any changes made to it or any other project. At least that's what it started doing, now when I go to even try to make any changes it wigs out and things get scrambled in the Project window and it plays video from another project.
When I create a new project, the Share menu is available, but it won't save changes to that project either. And by that I mean I can put stuff in the project and do whatever, but as soon as I quit and relaunch the application, the project is empty. I did figure out that if I make changes in a new project and immediately share it to the media browser that it will save the changes, but then it messes up my other project even more somehow!
Tried archive and install, deleting plists, reinstalling iMovie and iLife support stuff (twice), repairing permissions, and changing permissions in the project package. Any other ideas? -
Startup disk almost full--how to change the defualt free space amount?
I know that not too long ago I was able to change the default value that OSX uses to determine if the startup disk is almost full (5 GB?). For the life of me, I can't remember how I did that. I do know that it was a simple process--no terminal, no Unix, just a simple dialog box somewhere.
Can anyone remind me how to make this adjustment?There is no such parameter built-in to OS X. You must have been using some third-party disk monitoring utility.
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"Startup disk almost full" How do I fix this?
How do handle this? Thank you.
Help here > Freeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac Guides
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I went to use my iMac last night and noticed that sometime between the time I last used it that morning to the time I used it in the evening I lost about 50GB and got a "Startup Disk Almost Full" error message. When I did a "Get Info" on the iMac's HD it said zero space available. I rebooted and did everything I could think of to see if it was just a glitch, but it still said zero space available. I ended up using the Leopard Install Disk to restore from a Time Machine Backup that was done about the time I had last used the iMac and somehow came out with 119GB of free space. At the time the back was made my HD had only about 50GB of free space so I am not sure where all the extra space came from. The good news is that it looks like Time Machine did a great job of restoring the Mac and I haven't discovered anything missing, at least so far. The bad news is that I continue to have a lot of problems with Leopard; this being only one minor one. Just wanted to see if anyone else has had this "Disk Almost Full" error and were able to diagnose it.
Thanks. I had already used Time Machine to restore to a previous backup and fixed the problem that way. Next time this happens I will try to figure out what files are consuming all the space and see if that helps me determine the cause of massive memory loss.
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Imac frozen at blue screen after i went into disk utilities and cleaned free space.
I tried holding down T key as it reboots
and i get a message. Start up disk full empty it how can one emptie it if you cant get past the blue screen?
to make matters worse we bought the IMAC of amazon uk on the 4/07/011 so what can we do?
please remember how frustrating it is when asking for help when the helper telling you to type something on the screen when its frozen
Tell us when you can type some instuctions to the software how do you get to the doss prompt so to speak to do this
Thanksi tried all this thanks
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no matter what you tell me
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basicly is my hard drive full of 00000 is this why im getting this message because the process was interupted
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