Getting a Message "startup disc is almost full"

What does that mean? Is this the main Hard Drive?
Explain to me (like I'm a first time computer user) what I need to do please.
Thank you

You can move some of your iPhoto pictures to a new library on an external drive, if you want to, and that should free up some space, too. To do that, follow these directions from iPhoto Help, substituting "copy" for "move":
Your iPhoto library is located in your Pictures folder. The library contains photos you have imported into your photo library and any albums, slideshows, books, calendars, or cards you’ve created using iPhoto.
WARNING: To avoid permanently deleting or corrupting your iPhoto library, do not attempt to alter the contents of this file. It is a good idea, however, to routinely back up your iPhoto library to a DVD or external hard disk so you have a copy in case your photos become lost or corrupted for any reason.
To move your iPhoto Library:
Quit iPhoto.
Move your iPhoto Library to a new location on your computer.
IMPORTANT: If you’ve created multiple photo libraries, be sure to move only the library currently displayed when iPhoto is open. If you want to move a photo library other than the one you’re currently working on, you first need to switch to it.
Open iPhoto.
Click Choose Library in the dialog that appears.
Navigate to where you moved the library and select it.
Click Open.
Now you can delete some of your photos from your original library, thus freeing up some much-needed space. Good luck!

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My mac air startup disc is almost full. What does mac store as "other"? this category is taking up more than half the space on the disc
many thanks susan

For more on "Other" and very helpful tips:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html
Hope this helps.
1. Empty Trash.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
2. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
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Your startup disc is almost full - yet 101GB free !!!

I ran disc cleanup and got the message 'your startup disc is almost full' yet if I check Get Info for the drive I have...used = 48 GB, free = 101GB !!!
Any idea why I'm being told it's almost full.
PS: I have backup of two (2) 320GB LeCie external HDs

I don't know why it is saying that, but that utility is not really doing anything for you. All it does is is erase the bits that the OS has already declared "free."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1010.html
Are you running Adobe Photoshop? If you are, how big is the swap disk?

I have I-phone 5 with 15GB. I currently have used 12.8 GB. I get error message that storage is almost full, go to setting and mymail is 5.7 GB. Can that be how alot of my storage is being used? If so or not any advise?

I have I-phone 5 with 15 GB. I currently have used 12.8 GB. I get error message that storage is almost full, I go to setting and my mail is using 5.7 GB. Can that be how alot of my storage is being used? If so or not any advise?

caek1 wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to change email address on my Apple ID since the email registered for the account has been hacked and I can't access it anymore. The email I want to change to is connected to another Apple ID I created about 4 years ago, though I successfully changed the email on that account as well. So the email I would like to use for my main Apple ID shouldn't be "locked" anymore.
Though, when trying to change the email on my Apple ID I get an error message (in Swedish, so this is a direct translate from google): "This e-mail address is your email address for notification. It can not be used as the Apple ID or primary email. Choose a different address."
I'm not really sure what this means or how I can fix this.
It means exactly what it says... The email Address is in Use. You cannot re-use it.
Apple ID Support > http://www.apple.com/support/appleid/

Startup disc is almost full

A window pops up and says that my "startup disc is almost full". What does this mean and how can i fix it?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
See my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
Make sure your hard drive never becomes more than 85% full. That's an arbitrary number most have found to significantly degrade Mac OS X performance.
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

I have a mac notebook and time capsule. I got a message that my startup disc is almost full. not sure where to go from here. if i delete files will they still be on the time capsule.

I have a Mac notebook and back up to time capsule. I Got a message that my statup disc is almost full and I need to delete files. Not sure which files it means and will i lose my files if they are saved on the time capsule.

Visit
The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on the hard drive. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
About TM "Backup Drive is Full"
Alert TM only deletes older files if they have been deleted from the source and when TM needs space on the backup drive for a new incremental backup. Time Machine "thins" it's backups; hourly backups over 24 hours old, except the first of the day; those "daily" backups over 30 days old, except the first of the week. The weeklies are kept as long as there's room.
So, how long a backup file remains depends on how long it was on your Mac before being deleted, assuming you do at least one backup per day. If it was there for at least 24 hours, it will be kept for at least a month. If it was there for at least a week, it will be kept as long as there's room.
Note, that on a Time Capsule the sparsebundle grows in size as needed, but doesn't shrink. Thus, from the user's view of the TC it appears that no space has been freed, although there may be space in the sparsebundle.
Once TM has found it cannot free up enough space for a new backup it reports the disk is full. You can either erase the backup drive and start your backups anew or replace the drive with a larger drive.

My startup disc is almost full??

I am getting a message stating that my Start-up disc is almost full. I appear to have only 350 Mb available out 320Gb. I have no photos or videos on the device. What must I do?

You must move or delete files from your internal drive. Either Move them to an external drive or Move them to the trash then empty the trash.

Options now that Startup disc is almost full?

I have a Macbook Pro, running Mac OS X 10.7.4.
It just ran through its 3 year waranty period in January but not before having its entire back screen replaced as well as the 2 x 2Gb ram cards intergrated into the motherboard all due to a video issue. So all in all, seems like a new laptop aside from that there is 5 Gb left on the hard disc (out of 320.)
Still somewhat new to tech stuff, I have backed everything up to our 2 TB TIme Capsule. Additionally, I had an external drive which I backed everything up to again.
So, what can I do with this hard disc? I fear that it might soon just die off. Is a solid state hard drive an easy replacement? Should I just dump files off the hard disc since its nearly full and I have dual back ups?
A friend of mine mentioned something about NAS but the phone reception was tough.
PLease share some advice and wisdom. Thank you!

suggestion: install a larger hard drive if you feel that your hard drive is about to fail.
go to owc to see what size suits your needs. a 10 minute install if you're technically capable.
cloning your new hard drive is quite easy but a little time consuming. so expect to spend a minimum of one hour or more depending on how much data you wish to clone or transfer.
good luck.

Startup disc is almost full - warning

I'm getting this warning so I purchased and installed a 1 tb sata drive in bay 2. I thought that I would now have the additional space but continue to get the warning. I see the drive in the system profiler but apparently it doesn't automatically carry over. Reading through the forums I see that it's recommended to use the bay 1 drive for apps and 2 for media. How do I move my media files to the second drive if this is the case? Is there something else I'm missing? Help!!
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How large is your system drive?
How much free space is reported?
Do you have at least two backup drives already?
Download and look through the pdf for SuperDuper $29 for backups and clone the system.
What type of files and media etc do you have?
And yes most people do use all four internal drive bays for system, data, editing, backup - but always have one or more external (and off line) backup drives.
And this assumes it is working properly, no freezes or crashes, and in good working order. If not, even more important to backup and repair. And for repairs, definitely invest in 3rd party utility (Alsoft, MicroMat, Prosoft, or something).
For now, I would just "clone" your original drive to the new 1TB.
You can use SuperDuper free for full copy; you can use Disk Utility - Restore also for making the copy. That way you know you have one good full backup.
I hope it is not Seagate, there are STILL problems with Seagate firmware with their drives.
You could just copy video, photo library, but don't delete anything until you know everything is working, and I would still want a 3rd drive.
System
Media
Backup #1
Backup #2
Clone means it is bootable. Test that it is. Boot from it. Insure it works properly. Pull the original for safe keeping.
The third drive could be backup system. Also useful to have. Before applying any updates, BACKUP your system and run disk repairs.
OWC MacSales has 640GB WD for $69. Great fast little drives. 1TB for $95 (Green) and up (RE3, Black, others). There are also 1.5 and 2TB WD models. So very affordable.

Unity - How do I turn off voicemail message "your mailbox is almost full"?

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I keep getting the message that my start up disc is almost full, what can I do?

I keep getting the message that my start up disc is almost full. What can I do?

Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. 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 the 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.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. 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. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the 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. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
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 or GP 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 the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding 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
sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective
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 by pressing 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. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
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When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

I am getting a message that sys startup disk is almost full. I cleaned all my old emails out, archived old ones i needed and erased most files on the computer. I restarted but I'm still getting the message

I am getting a message that sys startup disk is almost full. I cleaned all my old emails out, archived old ones i needed and erased most files on the computer. I restarted but I'm still getting the message

Reindex Spotlight again.
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
Do not concern yourself about the backups. They will be deleted automatically if space is needed for other data:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202301
Ciao.

Startup disk is almost full message- what can I do to delete files for more space?

I'm getting a msg saying my startup disk is almost full, what should I do?? to delete fuiles for more space??

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Free Disc Space
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

What does it mean when I get the message "scratch disc is full"?

Trying to work on Photoshop and I'm getting the message, "scratch disc is full".

Ultimately here is the deal. Like OS X and Windows do at the system level, Photoshop will grow a virtual memory scratch file on your hard drive if you don't have enough RAM to do what you are trying to do.
That means, step 1 in preventing the scratch file is to put more RAM in the Mac so that Photoshop doesn't run out so fast and have to shove data off to the disk to make room.
Step 2 is to put the scratch file on another disk. This is why pros have often used desktop towers, because you can put multiple disks inside them. For example, system on one disk with lots of free space, photo library on another disk so it can grow freely, and another disk that is used exclusively to hold scratch files for Photoshop and other programs that need to do the same thing like Apple Final Cut. Splitting the data streams (system, file access, scratch) like this also speeds up the machine considerably since they're not all trying to use the disk at the same time.
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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.

Getting a Message "startup disc is almost full"

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