Hard drive full, what to do?
I have a Mac Mini(i think late 2009), and have completely filled it's 300GB hard drive. I have done a complete back-up to TC. So my question is now about the data on my MM. If i delete files on my hard drive, say like some video files in iphoto, to make room on my MM drive and I fill it up with new video files, when time machine does its daily backup to TC, will it erase the files on TC that i erased on my MM?
Gary,
I was thinking of using my TC as my external hard drive. Since I have been using Time Machine to do my daily backups to the Time Capsule, my current hard drive memory should already be there, right? I was then going to turn off the Time Machine daily backup, wipe my hard drive on the MM and I should be good to go. As a secondary precaution, I was going to get a cloud service to back up my Time Capsule as a secondary fail-safe before I wipe the MM. Plausible or crazy?
Thanks,Lee
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Do you know how I can tell how large each file is taking up and what my 'other' category could be?
thanksInitial easy steps to gain disk space:
- Delete all files in the Downloads folder.
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Empty its trash.
Restart.
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For more about backups:
Time Machine Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Most commonly used backup methods:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3045
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6031
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Then use the free application OmniDiskSweeper http://www.omnigroup.com/more to explore your volume in descending order by size so you can attack the problem from the top down, deleting the largest unwanted files first. Delete with caution and do not delete any system files. Remember to empty the trash after trashing the files.
Additional reference on freeing disk space:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
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Format the second drive as Mac OS Extended (journaled). Using OWS to find large files/folders and copy them from the system drive to the external hard drive and delete them from your internal drive.
Then > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options… > Remove the offload HD name from the exclusions list.
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To move your iTunes Music folder to another disk or partition:
To change the location of your iTunes Music folder, carefully follow the instructions in the AppleCare® Knowledge Base document "iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder."Additional information can be found in iTunes Help.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.thexlab.com/105/ 00000849.html
Laptop users may want to consider having two iTunes libraries: a small library of current favorites on their computer, while their complete library resides on an external hard drive. Utilities like iTunes Library Manager enable you to easily have multiple iTunes libraries you can use with your account. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7689/itunes-library-manager
To move your iPhoto Library folder to another disk or partition:
To move the iPhoto Library folder to a new location, employ the instructions in the AppleCare Knowledge Base document from http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506 corresponding to the version of iPhoto you are using. Additional information can be found in iPhoto Help.
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https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12175/iphoto-buddy
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Hi All,
I'm not sure I have sufficient technical knowledge to follow other, similar threads on this topic. I'd benefit from a bit of gentler handling, if that's okay!
I have a relatively new MBP with a 500GB hard drive (flash storage). I am good with my back-ups and use Time Machine in conjunction with an external HD and have backed up old video and image files to a 2TB external hard drive.
What is happening continually is that my Hard Drive gets almost completely used up very quickly. I have used OmniDiskSweeper to get a view on the size of files - the largest folder (as you might expect) is the Users folder at just over 100GB. Nothing is else is all that big - so maybe a total usage of 130GB in all.
I think the problem comes from the idea of 'hidden backups'. I recently imported some raw video into iMovie, which I then saved out as a .MOV file and moved off to an external HD, deleting the local copy. If I've read other threads correctly, the MBP holds some of these large files as a snapshot in time of the drive.
However, how can I get rid of these and get back to a relatively clean HD without doing a complete reinstall?
Suggestions are warmly welcomed.
PatrickPlease read this Apple support article on Time machine snapshots.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015
They are meant to be only temporary and will drop off if space is needed for other data. In that regard, you may ignore them.
Ciao.
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