Easy ways to free up space on harddrive?

I'm running out of space on my hard drive. In the past I deleted foreign languages and freed up some space. Any other easy tips?

You can use products like Omni DiskSweeper, Daisy Disk, and Grand Perspective to breakdown and identify your file types and space they take. DiskSweeper will aid you in group file removal too.

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HT5503 Whats the best way to free up space on the iphone 3gs

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.

Is there a way to free up space without sync?

I'm currently traveling and therefore unable to sync to my desktop as I normally do. While on the road I've taken a few photos, etc., and now find I'm running out of space. Subsequently, I've deleted a couple of large apps I never use, and several old photos I know I have stored, but my iPhone is still showing as full. Apparently, the files I've deleted aren't really gone until I sync? It will be some time until I'm home again and able to access my desktop. Is there a way to free up space without a sync, or am I stuck with a full phone until I return?

You can import the photos taken with the iPhone to another computer as long as you
TURN OFF auto-sync on the other computer first. Then delete them and that should free up space for you.
You would import the photos off the iPhone to the computer just like you would from a digital camera.
THen burn them to CD/DVD.

What are best ways to free up space?

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.
Mike

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.

Hi ..
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

Best Way to Free Up Space

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.
Thanks

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.

Is there an easy way to free up memory without deleting important files?

I am trying to free up memory on my MacBook without deleting important files. I'm not sure which files I can delete permanently without interfering with the operating system or applications. Any advice?

You can delete any document files you've stored in the Documents, Downloads, Movies, Music, Pictures, and Sites folders located within your Home folder. Or you can replace the hard drive with a larger drive or offload documents to an external storage drive then delete from the internal drive.

No way to free space in the internal hard disk.

Hi guy
There's no way to free any space in the internal hard disk. If I throw 5 giga of files in the trash and empty it, I don't find 5 more giga of avalaible space in the internal hard disk. Time Machine is not activated. Any idea to solve the problem? Sorry for my english....

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.

Transferring photos to an external hard drive to free up space

Hello, I am running out of space on my iPhone because I have so many photos/videos. I'm thinking I should move the photos to a portable hard drive. Is there a quicker way to do this than to import to a PC and then transfer to the portable hard drive? And is this the best way to free up space? I want to keep the photos and videos on my iPhone so I can readily see them, but they're taking up so much space. TY!

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You have to do it manually. Search through your user's folders and copy your documents, downloads, music, pictures or whatever you want to your external drive.
Another option is to make a clone of the SSD onto the external drive so everything will be transferred and you will get a good backup in case your SSD stops working. To do this backup, you can do it with Disk Utility's Restore feature, Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper. If you do this, you will have to delete your files manually from your SSD

How do i free up space on my hard drive

What is the most efficient way to free up space on my hard drive?

The following articles have some good tips:
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk and
Freeing Up Hard Disk Space

Is there an EASY way to submit podcasts to the itunes store? i've tried creating podcasts in garageband, then somewhere after wordpress itunes doesn't recognize the feed. my process has been (i am open to suggestions for other free and EASY services/me

is there an EASY way to submit podcasts to the itunes store? i've tried creating podcasts in garageband, then somewhere after wordpress itunes doesn't recognize the feed.
my process has been (i am open to suggestions for other free and EASY services/methods):
garageband : create & edit audio. add 1400x1400 image.
share to itunes.
drag file to desktop.
upload .m4a file to google drive.
create a link post in wordpress using "podcast" tag & create "podcast" category.
click on "entries rss" in wordpress, which takes me to the rss subscribe page (which is basically just my wordpress address with "/feed" at the end.
i copy this url.
go to itunes store > then "submit a podcast"
itunes gives me the error message "we had difficulty downloading episodes from your feed."
when i try to subscribe to my podcast in itunes, it does, but gives me no episodes available.
i went back into wordpress and changed settings/ reading settings to : "full text" from "summary"
still the same error message.
i added a feedburner step after wordpress but got the same errors. i don't think i should have to add feedburner.
wordpress seems to be encapsulating the rss, what am i doing wrong?
this so much easier when you could go directly from garage band to iweb to mobileme; i miss those apple days (also idisk).

if anyone has a super EASY process, i would LOVE to know what it is. EASY, meaning no html and also free. there are many free online storage systems available, many of which i currently use. the above process was just me trying to figure it out, if you have an easier method, please share. thank you so much!

I recently upgraded to an iPhone 5 and I have this synced with my previous iCloud account. My problem is my old iPhone 4 is taking up 2.5 GB of space in the cloud. Is there a way to delete this iphone from the icloud so I can free up space?

I recently upgraded to an iPhone 5 and I have this synced with my previous iCloud account. My problem is my old iPhone 4 is taking up 2.5 GB of space in the cloud. Is there a way to delete this iphone from the icloud so I can free up space as it is not needed anymore?

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Assuming you have finished with your old backup.....
You can see what your iCloud storage is used for and delete any unwanted content at settings > iCloud > backup & storage > manage......

HT201302 I have over 1000 photos in my camera roll, and I have saved them to my computer. Is there an easy way to delete some or all of them to clear out space on my iPhone?

I have over 1000 photos in my camera roll, and I have saved them to my computer. Is there an easy way to delete some or all of them to clear out space on my iPhone?

The quick way is when you imprort them to an app on your computer, usually there is the option to delete everything on the phone that was imported. If you declined that option, then you have to do it one by one or manualy select in edit mode.

If I back up iMovie projects to an external drive does it take the media with it? I want to free up space and remove pictures that were in iPhoto...that were used as media by iMovie when project was under way. In short I want archive iMovie stuff

If I back up iMovie projects to an external drive does imovie take the media with it? I want to free up space and remove pictures that were in iPhoto...that were used as media by iMovie when project was under way. In short I want archive iMovie stuff. If I pull pics out of iPhoto, and later want to drag an archived projet bac into iMovie and the pics are no longer in iPhoto, will I be able to keep working in the project in iMovie?

Very likely not, as the iPhoto's can be used for something else.
More like it took a copy, or it's referencing that spot on the drive in the editable files and most likely made a copy to create a new permanent export file.
Sample one picture and a iMovie file and see what happens.

If I have say 200 photos in an EVENT and I use 50 of them in an ALBUM and months later I'm happy with the ALBUM and want to trash the 150 extras in part to save space on the hard drive, is there an easy way to find which photos to delete?

If I have, say 200 photos in an EVENT and I use 50 of them in an ALBUM, and months later I'm happy with the ALBUM and want to trash the extra 150 photos, is there an easy way to know which 150 photos to trash? My idea is to not have hundreds of photos taking up space on the hard drive.
Thanks.

Various ways:
Easy one: Flag the ones you want to keep (do this in the Album - Select All and Flag)
Then:
File -> New Smart Album
Event -> contains -> Name of the Event
Photo -> Is Not -> Flagged
will find the unwanted 150.
Regards
TD

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