How do I free up space on my start up drive for macbook

I cannot download anything onto my macbook because it says there is no space on my start up drive.

If you normally sync to a computer, you can do the update via that and y ou don't need to have the free room to download the update.
If you normally don't,then do you have content you can delete? such as songs from iTunes or movies from iTunes? you can always delete them to make room, then redownload them after the update.
Or if you have apps that are taking up room you can temporarily delete them. Settings and usage will show you which apps are taking up the most room.

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    <http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html>
    Also, if you search this forum, you'll find many more threads on the same topic.

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    Sports Fanatic wrote:
    Is this simply my hard disc?
    Yes.  I suggest that you download from the Internet OmniDiskSweeper (free) and open it. It will show all of your files and the respective sizes.  Transfer to an external HDD or to Trash, those files you do not want on your internal HDD.  Do not forget to empty Trash.
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    Ciao.

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    ‘Other’:
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  • HT201364 How can i free up space on my startup disk to install OS X Mavericks?

    How can i free up space on my start up disk to install the OS X Mavericks software?

    For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article.
    Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
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    Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space. Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature.
    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 free 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.
    See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
    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.
    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 ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
    Triple-click anywhere in the 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:
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    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 (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 with the largest at the top. It may take a few minutes for ODS to finish scanning your 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.

  • HT201364 How do I free up space on on my start up disk--MacBook Air???

    How do I free up space on my start up disk--MacBook Air?
    Thanks

    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.

  • How can I free up space on my iphone without connecting to itunes?

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    Claiming that it can be done, but not telling him how is not all that helpful. We were dying for you to share the steps that he must take.
    http://www.cultofmac.com/99990/ios-5-allows-users-to-delete-music-directly-from- iphoneipad/
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  • I am at capacity How can I free up space but not delete music

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  • I am trying to burn a dvd and it will not allow me to do this because it states that i do not have enough space for encoding disk. how do i free up space and from where?

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  • HT1338 How can i free up space on hd?

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    Begin by dragging your files to  another drive. Then delete those files on your internal drive.
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  • I need to get more space on my start up disk. How do I free up space by transferring to one of my back up drives?

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    Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing space on your hard drive. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.

  • Computer states that I have 12 gigs left how do I free up space?

    computer states that I have 12 gigs left how do I free up space?

    Check Boot drive is getting filled up > https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521

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