How to clean up disk space in MacBook Air

How do I free up space in my MacBook Air, on the "others" section?

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Managing disk space on MacBook Air

Hi all and happy new year!
I recently gave my wife a new MacBook Air to replace her aging iBook. Great idea, right? The only thing I didn't count on was how much space she had taken up on the old computer with iTunes and iPhoto libaries.
Altogether, the two libraries take up nearly 90gb (40gb iTunes, 47gb iPhoto) - which is a bit inconvenient when the Air only has a 128gb flash drive.
So my questions are for other MacBook Air users - how do you deal with the space limitations when trying to keep your photo/video/music libraries?
Is the Air just not really intended for this type of use and we should cut our losses and get a MacBook Pro instead?
So far, we're attempting to just upload all the photos to Flickr, but I am not sure how convenient this will be in the long term.
Thoughts and advice are welcome!
cheers...

Thanks for the idea - we live in Moscow, Russia, where there are no Apple stores, only 'authorized resellers', so not sure what their returns policy is.
Regardless, if we had the 256gb drive, it seems like we would still run up against the storage issue sooner or later - just wondering how people deal with this. External drives? Cloud storage? Or maybe some idea why 11k photographs takes up nearly 50gb!

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Weird issue and dont know if this is a bad SSD or just a bug in Lion BUT I have an i7 18 ghz 2011 macbook air with 256GB SSD. Now the issue is if i click on "Macintosh HD" and press command +I i get a one number, later i go into disk utility and it says a whole different number (space available). I deal with large files for video and im always deleting some and adding others. I reformatted twice and had everything re-installed, but after a few days of usage the symptoms come back. Anyone experiencing this issues? can it be a hardware issue or a bug in Lion? I called support, but they told me is out of my 90 days and i live way too far from an apple store.
see the picture below.
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Rysz wrote:
If you have Time Mashine turned on, and no external drive attached, TM will keep "snapshot" backups on your local drive.
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Hi ...
What's taking up disk space > OSX Tips The Storage Display
Click your Apple menu  top left in your screen. From the drop down menu click About This Mac > More Info > Storage
Make sure there's at least 15% free disk space.

How do I clear space on Macbook air in the following folders? Mail, Containers and Application support under libraries?

How do I clear space on Macbook air in the following folders? Mail, Containers and Application support under libraries?

Why? If you need space on the SSD:
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. Get an external hard drive on which to store some of your files after which you can
erase the data from your internal drive to free up space.
5. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
6. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
7. 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.
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can anyone please let us know how to add more disk space into "/" root file system.
i have added new hard disk with space of 20GB,
[root@rac2 shm]# df -h
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/dev/hda1             965M 767M 149M 84% /
/dev/hda7             1.9G 234M 1.6G 13% /var
/dev/hda6             2.9G   69M 2.7G   3% /tmp
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Dude! wrote:
I would actually question whether or not more disks increase the risk of a disk failure. One disk can break as likely as one of two of more disks.
Simple stats. Buying 2 lottery tickets instead of one, gives you 2 chances to win the lottery prize. Not 1. Even though the odds of winning per ticket remains unchanged.
2 disks buy you 2 tickets in The-Drive-Failure lottery.
Back in the 90's, BT (British Telecom) had a 80+ node OPS cluster build with Pyramid MPP hardware. They had a dedicated store of scsi disks for replacing failed disks - as there were disk failure fairly often due to the number of disks. (a Pryamid MPP chassis looked like a Xmas tree with all the scsi drive LEDs, and BT had several)
In my experience - one should rather expect a drive failure sooner, than later. And have some kind of contingency plan in place to recover from the failure.
The use of symbolic links instead of striping the filesystem protects from the complete loss of the enchilada if a volume member fails, but it does not reduce the risk of loosing data.
I would rather buy a single ticket for the drive failure lottery for a root drive, than 2 tickets in this case. And using symbolic links to "offload" non-critical files to the 2nd drive means that its lottery ticket prize is not a non-bootable server due to a toasted root drive.

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Try http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Aura_Pro_Air_2012
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What is the file storage space in macbook air 2012?

what is the file storage space in macbook air 2012?

it all depends on what you'll be using it for - how much apps you plan on installing - how much music you have - how much videos you plan on saving in your macbook air.
i have a 2010 and 2012 Macbook Air - both came with 128GB - for my needs - it's fine.
As you can see from the image below - that is from my 2012 Macbook Air. Still have lots of space left.

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How can i remove MacKeeper from my macbook air?

Remove "MacKeeper" as follows. First, back up all data.
"MacKeeper" has only one useful feature: it deletes itself.
Note: These instructions apply to the version of the product that I downloaded and tested in early 2012. I can't be sure that they apply to other versions.
IMPORTANT: "MacKeeper" has what the developer calls an “encryption” feature. In my tests, I didn't try to verify what this feature really does. If you used it to “encrypt” any of your files, “decrypt” them before you uninstall, or (preferably) restore the files from backups made before they were “encrypted.” As the developer is not trustworthy, you should assume that the "decrypted" files are corrupt unless proven otherwise.
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from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-A. The "MacKeeper" application is in the folder that opens. Quit it if it's running, then drag it to the Trash. You'll be prompted for your login password. Click the Uninstall MacKeeper button in the dialog that appears. All the functional components of the software will be deleted. Reboot.
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