HT1338 how do I remove files from my start up disc ?

My Force Quit window keeps opening and telling me "To avoid problems with your computer, quit all applications you are not using. Closing windows and removing files from your startup disc will also help".
I can not get my finder help to even recognizw "stsrt up disc" to ask a question.
I have only Safari, mail, word and finder open. I have 8 gb's of ram so I don't understand what's going on. Please help.

The built-in Help is rarely very helpful, unfortunately, but you've come to the right place.
First question: how much free space is there on your hard disk?
You can find the answer by clicking the  in the top right of your screen, clicking 'About This Mac'  | More Info... and finally 'Storage'.

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    See Lion's Storage Display.
    You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
    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.

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    Move iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie media folders to an external drive.
    iTunes
    http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201562
    iPhoto
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506
    iMovie
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ph2289
    Backup your computer.
    Try OmniDiskSweeper. This will give the storage size details of the items.
       Select Macintosh HD and click  “Sweep Selected Drive” at the bottom.
       Delete the files yo don’t want to keep.
       Be careful. Delete only the files that should be deleted.
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  • HT201210 how do i remove files from my start up disk

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    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.
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    You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.

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    How do I removes files from my start up disk ?
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    How do you remove items from the start up disc?

    Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
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    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.

  • How do you remove files from your start up disk without deleting any files?, How do you remove files from your start up disk without deleting any files?

    Hi,
    I was wondering if anyone knew how to remove files from the start up disk without deleting any files?
    I am unable to add any more photos and even download the latest updates because the start up disk is full....
    Is it possible to move the files off the start up disk without deleting them?
    I would appreciate feedback,
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    ☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
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    I don't recommend that you make a habit of this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. When you're done with it, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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    how do i delete files from my startup?

    rastos wrote:
    how do i delete files from my startup?
    Do you mean your Accounts system preferences login items or something else?  For login items select an item and click the minus to delete it from the list.  Other "startup" processes need to be deleted from other specific places.  So you need to be more specific about what you are talking about.

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    My Mac Book Air tells me that the start up disc is nearly full land that I do not have the capacity to load Maverick.  How can I remove items that I may not need from this disc?

    Move them to an external hard drive, formatted as HFS Extended (Journaled).

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    I am unable to synch my iphone, or upgrade itunes because I get an error message asking me to delete files. It tells me to go to the start up disk and delete files. My MAC has 2GB, so far I have used 159MB

    For hints on how to free disk/SSD storage see
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5872318?tstart=0
    and
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5939678?tstart=60

  • Unable to update software or upload pics from SD card-how do I remove files from startup disk? Please help!

    Unable to update software or upload pics from SD card-how do I remove files from startup disk? Please help!

    Hello Smile_333
    The article below will assist with finding things and help increase the hard drive space for your computer. The best way is to have an external hard drive to copy things to if you do not want to delete and loose things.
    OS X Mountain Lion: Increase disk space
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
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    -Norm G.

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    how do i remove files from my Icloud account - can I do this from my office PC if I log into my account?  Thanks

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    Managing your iCloud storage
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847
    -Griff W. 

  • HT201364 how do i remove space from my start up disk

    How do i remove space from my start up disk?

    Do you mean "make" space on your HD?
    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.
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    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.

  • HT201364 how do I remove iteams from my start up disk to create more space?

    how do I remove iteams from my start up disk to create more space?

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    like music, videos, photos, documents, apps you don't use anymore. Video, in particular, tends to take up a lot of room.
    don't drag system files to the trash.
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