How to make more space on my startup disk

I keep getting messages that I don't have enought space on my startup disk, I was wondering if I can download
a program so see how I can clean it up, or see which files are using most of my disk to delete them or
to put them in an external hard drive!

see here: http://guides.macrumors.com/Freeing_Up_Hard_Disk_Space. Also, you can download omnidiscsweeper http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/. You can also download disk doctor from the app store.

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How do i make more space on my startup disk

how do i make more space on my startup disk

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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.

How do I get more space on my startup disk

How do I get more space on my startup disk?

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.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

How to make more space avilable on strt-up disk?

I've just started burning DVDs on iDVD, using movies I have produced in iMovie and then transferred, via the Media Browser. But when I come to burn the finished product I am severely limited. The 'help" article informs me "be sure you have at least twice as much free space as your project uses available on your hard disk ... eg. if your project uses 4GB, you need at least 8GB of free space on your hard disk. I checked via control-click onto my hard disk icon how much space I have. The capacity is 148GB of which only 938MB is available! Does this mean I can never burn a DVD with more than 469 MB content (i.e 50% of the total)? If so, how can I make more space available on my start-up disk?

You could free-up nearly 2 GB by deleting two "bloatware" items:
/Applications/Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive
/Applications/iWork '08 ... (the 'free trial' version)
On my system, they're 1001568 KB and 701940 KB, respectively.
If you don't use them, iWeb.app and GarageBand.app are also
very large (345344 KB and 187056 KB). If you delete them, you
can always restore them later from the install DVDs.
Looby

How do you free space on the startup disk

how do you free space on the startup disk

If your disk is 80% full that is normal. Time Machine uses up to 80% of the disk space for local snapshots. To get rid of these snapshots simply plug in your Time Machine backup drive and run a backup.
If you have less than 20% disk space then it is time to roll up your sleeves and search for what you can delete and what you can offload to another disk.
If you have less than 10 GB you definitely need to delete or offload some files. You may want to maintain at least 20 GB of free space so when your disk starts filling again it will have some room before it hits that 10 GB mark again. More headroom is better. If you let the space fall much below 9 GB you might not be able to boot your machine.
Initial easy steps to gain disk space:
- Delete all files in the Downloads folder.
- Empty the trash.
- Start iPhoto, empty its trash and restart the computer.
Deleting files:
Run a Time Machine (or other) backup since you are about to delete and move files and you may need to recover from any inadvertent mistakes or decisions. You will need one external hard drive for your Time Machine (or other) backup and a second one onto which you will offload some files.
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.
Moving files:
Consider moving some of the no-often-used large files or directories to an external disk. Use ODS again to find them.
As noted above this will be at least your second hard drive. Your first one(s) is/are for your Time Machine (or other) backup(s). Do not offload files onto a Time Machine disk.
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.
Now both your system disk and your external offload disk will be backed up onto your Time Machine disk.
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
From: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
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.
Laptop users may want to consider having two iPhoto libraries: a small library of current, favorite photographs on their computer, while their complete library, or archives of older photos are saved on an external hard drive. Utilities such as iPhoto Buddy and iPhoto Library Managerenable you to have multiple iPhoto libraries that you can use with your account.
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12175/iphoto-buddy
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7158/iphoto-library-manager

What files can i delete to make more room on my startup disk

what files can i delete to make more room on my startup disk

Maybe some help here
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3680
Also delete your cookies and other web data, as it can build up and you don't really need that stuff.
Try going to to Go in the finder menu, Go to Folder, Type in ~/Library/ click Go and look around and see what you don't need and highlight and delete the junk.

How do i clear space on my startup disk

I am frequently getting error messages that my startup disk is full - how do I clear space so my system can run better?

A good tool to help with cleaning up a disk is OmniDiskweeper. It will tell you the files and folders that are taking up the most space.
The best candidate to pick are you own files generally located in Home.
Be very careful with system files because moving or deleting them can cause your system to stop running, If in doubt ask here about the files.
Allan

HT3680 how do i clear space on my startup disk?

I've erased tons of pictures and programs from my mac and when i go to software update it still keeps telling me i can't update because my startup disk is full

Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk. However, the best alternative is to put in a larger hard drive.
Note that dragging files to the Trash does not remove them. You then have to Empty the Trash to free up the space.

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My icloud space is full what can I delete to get my 5GB free back??

This article provides some suggestions: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847.

How do you make more space off of your hard drive?

I am trying to delete files to open up more start-up disk space, but I'm actually not sure how? I feel stupid..it's just that I truly don't know how to make more space or delete files. How do you empty your trash can?

To empty the trash, in the Finder click on the word finder and you'll see "Empty trash" three items from the top along with keyboard shortcuts to do it as well.
It's OK to drag files to the trash, but I think for applications you need to look at something like App-delete. http://www.reggieashworth.com/moreinfo
Mrs H

TA22302 freeing up space on the startup disk on a macbook

How to free up space on the startup disk on a macbook?

By deleting files and then emptying trash. To assist you, download from the Internet OnmiDiskSweeper (free) and open it. It will show all of your files and the respective sizes. Delete what you do not need or want
Also consider either transferring files to an external disk or installing a lager internal HDD.
Ciao.

HT201364 You need 4.93 GB of available space. I cannot download OS X Mavericks. I obtain the following answer: Remove items from your startup disk to increase available space. How do I know what items I should remove in order to make more space available?

You need 4.93 GB of available space. I cannot download OS X Mavericks for I obtain the following answer: Remove items from your startup disk to increase available space. How do I know what items I should remove in order to make more space available? Thanks.

You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER!
With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.
If it does, it's time for some hard drive housecleaning.
Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.
Have you emptied your Mac's Trash icon in the Dock?
If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.
If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.
Look through your other Mailboxes and other Mail categories to see If there is other mail you can archive and/or delete.
Other things you can do to gain space.
Once you have around 15 GBs regained, do a search, download and install OmniDisk Sweeper.
This app will help you locate files that you can move/archive and/or delete from your system.
STAY AWAY FROM DELETING ANY FILES FROM OS X SYSTEM FOLDER!
Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.
Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
When you install and launch it, let it do its initial automatic tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the maintenance tabs that let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
Good Luck!

Hello, How do I make more space available on my startup disk by deleting files on my Mac Book Air?.

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How do I make more space available on my startup disk by deleting files. Thanks, Teresa
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HT1338 How do I make more room on my startup disc? I keep getting a warning that it is full.

How do I make more room on my startup disc? I keep getting a warning that it's full.

Bernie007 wrote:
How do I make more room on my startup disc? I keep getting a warning that it's full.
Try downloading omnidiscsweeper
http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/
and check to see that are no large folders of files that you do not know about on your computer. Normally it will be Pics, Music or Movies.
If everyfile is required then you may well have to physically back a lot of it up to an external drive. You need a minimum of 15% free disc space to operate at a reasonable rate.
Pete

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