How to clear up space on mac os x start up disk

I get the message your mac os x start up disk has no more space available for application memory, please help me clear this problem up

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    Getting a warning message says no available memory space in MAC OS X start up  disk.
    What's best way to address?
    Delete photos and email?
    Add memory? Both? It is affecting "Applications"   

    Disk Space - Free Up
    Disk Space – Free Up (2)
    Disk Space Filling Up – OmniDiskSweeper
    Disk Space Filling Up - WhatSize

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    How to clear Temp files in Mac?

    What temp files? Most are deleted automatically when an application quits or when you log in or restart.

  • How to clear virus from my mac mini

    How to clear virus from my mac mini. I had move more files to trash, but two files not move from trash. Now what can I do for that. Please tell me idea for that.

    Did you try to Secure Empty the trash?

  • HT4906 I tried to do the update but it reads that I don't have enough hard drive to do the update. How do clear up space on my hard drive to do the upte????

    I tried to do the update but it reads that I don't have enough hard drive to do the update. How do clear up space on my hard drive to do the upte????

    That is hard to say, as we do not know what you keep on your hard drive.
    To free space
    empty the trash, both on your Desktop and the Aperture Trash,
    Delete files and folders you do not need
    Move files to an external volume.
    There are utilities that let you find large files, like Omni Disk Sweeper, but that is not a free application.

  • My iBook will not do anything just give me a pop up saying your Mac os x start up disk has no more space available for application memory

    Having a problem with my iBook keeping getting pop up saying.  Your Mac os x start up disk has no more space available for application memory? How do I correct this until this is fixed I can not use my iBook.      Please help also will need step by step help as I have no idea what I am doing. 
    God bless.   Thank you

    Hello,
    Using the Mac OS X disk you have for your iBook, incert and hold down 'C' during boot.
    When it loads up the menu, click utilities and then Disk Utility. (Menu at the top)
    In Disk Utility select your macintosh hard drive from the  left.
    In the right menu, select disk repair. Once the disk repair has finished, restart your iBook without the dsk in the drive.
    It should loads into Mac OS normally.
    Best of luck

  • How to save SOME time machine Mac backups from the TM disk to other disk WITHOUT formatting the destination disk?

    Hi,
    How to save SOME time machine Mac backups from the TM disk to other disk WITHOUT formatting the destination disk?
    I have a Time Machine disk (A) including the backups of several different Macs (B, C, D & E) generated with an old Mac OS X 10.5.8 (iMac PowerPC) over the years.
    I have transferred the old Mac contents to a new Mac with OS X 10.8.3 using Migration Assitant. All OK.
    Now, I want to erase such TM disk A to use if for other purposes, but first, I would like to RECOVER the backups of some Macs inside it (D and E). Is that possible WITHOUT formatting the destination disk and selecting only some Macs from the TM disk and not the fulll TM disk? How?
    Thanks.

    Thanks for the reply. I do not think that is messy, anway. I simply used the same external disk as Time Machine disk for different Macs. And that worked OK all the time for years.
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    which contains the following folders (each one corresponding to the Time Machine backup made from each Mac):
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  • How to free up space on Mac Pro "other" Storage Category

    Shows 25.73GB free out of 150.18GB -- with 98GB in unknown "other" category. How do I locate those files and access them to try to clear up more space?
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    If you are running Yosemite then this is a bug. If you need to know this information then select the Desktop icon for your drive. Press COMMAND-I to open the Get Info window. The information is displayed in the top  panel as: Capacity, Available, and Used.
    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.

  • HT1338 how do i double space in mac

    how do i double space in mac

    Adding to what Kenichi has said, another option is to halve the amount of data you have stored on the Hard Drive. I don't mean to sound flippant, but examining what is taking up the existing space, could lead to a pruning of stuff you no longer need / use. Getting rid of some unwanted stuff will make room for additional downloads, presuming this is your desire.

  • How much disk space does a typical system start up disk use?

    I am trying to partition a 640 GB hard drive for my 17" MacBook Pro. I created a partition of 30GB for the "System Start Up Disk", and after installing the original Tiger OSX software, and then doing the Leopard Upgrade Install, It says that I am out of disk space on that partition.
    Does anyone know how much disk space is sufficient for a typical System Start-Up Disk?
    How about disk space for Applications?

    molinasky wrote:
    I am trying to partition a 640 GB hard drive for my 17" MacBook Pro. I created a partition of 30GB for the "System Start Up Disk", and after installing the original Tiger OSX software, and then doing the Leopard Upgrade Install, It says that I am out of disk space on that partition.
    Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
    Why do you want to partition that disk?
    Does anyone know how much disk space is sufficient for a typical System Start-Up Disk?
    When not booted from that drive (meaning, I believe, that it's not allocating swap or page space) my OS X 10.5 system uses 68.4 GB, including 10 GB for applications, 2.5 GB for the Developer folder, and 25.5 GB for user folders.

  • My mac book pro start up disk is full how do I fix this ?

    My start up disk is full what do I do to fix this?

    Remove files.
    Get an external drive and off load the files you want to keep but archive. Then delete those files from your Mac. You should try to keep at least 15% free space on your hard drive least you will trash it. Without your being specific with more details that's as general as it gets.

  • How can I find where this came from? - start up disk almost full

    Hi, my mac began saying this to me today "Start up disk almost full"
    So I began deleting files. I deleted a lot via DiskWave.
    But now Diskwave says I have enough space but my mac sure doesn't.
    What do I do? What's all that 'other' stuff and where can I find it?
    Thanks in advance!

    For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
    Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
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    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:
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    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. Type carefully and then press return. 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.
    I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything 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 the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

  • Resetting Administrator and password on Power Mac G5 without start up disks

    Is it possible to reset the user name and password without the start up disks and if so how can it be done?
    StevStep

    StevStep wrote:
    Is it possible to reset the user name and password without the start up disks and if so how can it be done?
    Do you know the password for an existing user account? If so, just log in as that user, go to the Accounts system preference & click the "Change Password..." button to change it. You can also change the 'long' user name to whatever you want in the "User Name" box in that same preference.
    However, if you want to change the 'short' name of any account (the one used for the account's home folder, the Reset Password utility on the Mac OS X Install disc won't help -- it just allows anyone that can boot the Mac with that disc to reset the admin password, but not change the user short name associated with it.
    To do that follow the procedure in Mac OS X: How to change user short name or home directory name. Of course, to do that, you need to know the password for an admin account (to enable the root user), so if you don't know the password for any admin account, you would need to use the reset password utility from an installer disc.
    AFAIK, any Mac OS X Install disc capable of booting the Mac in question can be used for this, & using one that you don't actually own should not violate the software license agreement, since you are not using that disc to install anything.

  • Mac Air says start up disk is full

    MMac air says start up disk is full & now won't turn on. What can I do?

    Step 1   
    The first step in dealing with a startup failure is to secure the data. If you want to preserve the contents of the startup drive, and you don't already have at least one current backup, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data that has changed since the last backup, you can skip this step.
    There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to start. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
    a. Start up from the Recovery partition, or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) When the OS X Utilities screen appears, launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.” The article refers to starting up from a DVD, but the procedure in Recovery mode is the same. You don't need a DVD if you're running OS X 10.7 or later. 
    b. If Step 1a fails because of disk errors, and no other Mac is available, then you may be able to salvage some of your files by copying them in the Finder. If you already have an external drive with OS X installed, start up from it. Otherwise, if you have Internet access, follow the instructions on this page to prepare the external drive and install OS X on it. You'll use the Recovery installer, rather than downloading it from the App Store.
    c. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, start the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
    d. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.
    Step 2
    You might be able to start up in safe mode even though you can't start up normally. Otherwise, start up from an external drive, or else use the technique in Step 1b, 1c, or 1d to mount the internal drive and delete some files. 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.

  • Mac book pro start up disk

    hallo, i will be buying a mac book pro17 inch but i had a couple questions first...
    from what i understand about hard drives, my best option is the 160 gb with 7200 rpms.. i believe that faster is better than bigger in this case...and i should get an external drive to store other data and keep the start up disk as free as possible...is all this more or less correct?
    no mighty mouse comes with the laptop?
    the glossy and matte screen boils down to a matter or preferance?
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    aaron

    +..is all this more or less correct?+
    Yes
    +no mighty mouse comes with the laptop?+
    No
    +the glossy and matte screen boils down to a matter or preferance?+
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