HT1338 how to make space on startup drive?

how to make space on start up drive?

Use http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/ to remove unwanted languages - DO NOT remove anything else with it.
Install http://links.zero.eu.org/os-x/period/ to clear out very old log files etc
Paste the following into open Terminal (in Utilities) window and then hit return - give password when asked and hit return again - takes a while but it will list your 100 largest files:
cd / ; sudo du -caxk .[!.]* *| sort -rn | head -100
Keep backups on an external drive.
Put photos on DVDs and not your Mac.

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How to make space on Hard Drive for videos?

I recently tried to download the first season on "Lost" on my 60GB video iPod, but I ran into problems when trying to download these b/c of the space needed on my hard drive. Besides the obvious answer, "erase other files on your computer," is there anything else I can do to fix this?
Thanks!
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

Well, if you are running out of space on your hard drive, the only thing you can do to free up space is to erase something from your hard drive. So, no, there's nothing else you can do to fix this.
Find some stuff you don't need anymore, and either delete it for good or burn it to CD first. If you don't want to delete anything, invest in an external firewire hard drive (they're very cheap, and allow you to do a full backup of your system in addition to having extra storage space... You are backing up your computer, aren't you?).

How to make the CD/DVD drive compatible on Satellite 5000-204

Hi all,
I see a thread on replacing CD/DVD drive on this notebook, but it was closed, so i write this post.
The most of recent unit is "cable select" type and will not be recognized from many Toshiba notebook.
To solve that you must search a drive for which you can found a firmware update that change it to be "reverse cable select" type, as Nec or Optiarc
If you buy a drive that can't be recognize (like me) read below.
I succesfully replaced the DVD-ROM/CD-RW unit with a Pioneer DVR-KD08 DVD writer.
This unit is a "cable select" type (as most other recent unit) so it can't be recognise by this notebook (and many other Toshiba models). The solution is to connect pin 45 and 47 together on the drive or on the connector adapter (this second solution is simpler).
If you watch the drive from behind these pins are the second and third from the left on the upper row of pin of the connector.
In the connector adapter it's simpler to connect these pin (with care) with a solder iron directly on the circuit board.
Obviously on the circuit board the pins are the second and third from the right.
After this the unit will recognize ok.

Hi buddy
First of all thank you for participation in the forum its always nice to have users who shares the own experience and knowledge.
Thanks you also for this info how to make the CD/DVD drive compatible.
But to be honest Im a little bit skeptical because there is a chance that the drive could be damage during this procedure.
So everyone could do this but only at the own risk!!!
Usually the compatible drives can be found in the user manual and it would be useful taking a look into the user manual before buying an NOT compatible drive ;)
Cheers mate

How to make room when startup disc full?

I have been getting pop-up warnings that my startup disc is almost full or full. It says to delete files but I don't know how to go about this nor do I know what is safe to delete. Would someone be able to help guide me through this?

More info overload.....
Quick fix How To Quickly Free Up Hard Drive Space on Mac OS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO-mlLApEuk
Empty the trash in the Dock as well as iPhoto’s trash!
Open up your application folder & go through all your apps. Trash all the apps you no longer want and/or use.
An easier way to do this is to open the Application folder in list view & press the Command+j keys.
In the the dialog that appears, click the "This Window Only" button & the "Calculate All Sizes" check box.
Wait a bit until your file & folder sizes have all been calculated, then click the "Size" column to sort your apps from the fattest to the most anorexic.
Get rid of all your photo files you don't want and/or need. Same goes for those pics off the websites you downloaded (gifs, jpegs, etc.). Or transfer/move them all to a photo/movie storage site like ImageShack and Photobucket, 2 of the most popular FREE storage sites.
Get rid of all your video & music files you no longer view and/or listen too. Especially, if you already have the actual CD/DVDs or you can later redownload from a website. Or transfer them all to a FREE video/movies and/or music storage site.
Use Spotlight to make sure you got rid of everything. You can even trash directly from Spotlight! Better yet, download this FREE software called Find File. This app puts Spotlight to shame (works w/Mountain Lion).
Drag what you don't want and/or need to the trash. Better yet, download this neat little shareware app *demo* called AppZapper. It basically does all the work for you by not only trashing the apps but the apps preference files, caches & all its associated files.
Another software that does the above is AppDelete. Best of all this software is free!
Burn what you want and/or need onto CDs or DVDs. Not everyone has the luxury of purchasing an external HD and/or the system requirements for iCloud to store their "stuff.”
Dropbox is a free storage utility to check out.
You can check with your ISP to see if they offer *free* storage space. Most if not all do now-a-days. There are thousands if not millions of *free* storage facilities on the web also. Use your favorite search engine to search them out as they come in different storage sizes to fit your needs & wants.
Check for duplicate fonts.
Applications>Font Book
Select “All Fonts”
If you see any “black dots” next to any fonts this mean you have duplicates and/or multiple versions of these fonts.
To clean this up, select a “black dotted” font or the Apple + *click* to select multiple dotted fonts;
Edit>Resolve>Duplicates.
What the above does is turns off the duplicates & multiple version fonts. Not delete them.
More than likely the “extras” were installed by other programs and/or other users.
Clear out font caches
Use FontNuke. It does all the work for you. And, best of all it’s *FREE*.
Printer Drivers
Get rid of all the printer drivers you don’t need & use except the ones for your *current* printer(s)/scanner(s).
HD>Library>Printers Folder
If you accidently threw something out that you needed for your printer/scanner it can be easily obtained from the manufacturer’s website and/or from the CD that came w/the printer/scanner.
Garage Band
Has about 1GB of loops stored. Get rid of some some them. You surely don’t use, like and/or need them all.
HD>Library>Audio/Apple Loops>Apple>Apple Loops For GarageBand
Or just get rid of the Garage Band app altogether if you don’t use it.
Get rid of extra languages
Strip your computer down to your “native” tongue.
You can do this with a *FREE* utility called Monolingual. Another app that apparently does all the work for you. I’ve never used it. However, a lot of users here swear by & recommend it highly.
However, there is a warning for *native English speakers*. Make sure you keep BOTH English and English (United States).
Other Resources:
HD Space Checkers:
Disk Inventory X (FREE)
WhatSize (SHAREWARE)
OmniDiskSweeper (FREE)
GrandPerspective (FREE - donation)
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Mac Performance Guide
Slimming your hard drive
Rule of thumb: You should never let your hard drive get to where you have only 10-15% of space left.

How to create an alternate startup drive?

I upgraded to 10.8.3 from the Internet and therefore do not have a boot DVD since buying Snow Leapard.
I need to create an alternate startup disk.
How do I do this with Mountain Lion using an external HD (WD myBook) connected via USB?
TIA!!

Clone your current system to your external drive. This will erase the target drive so be sure you don't have anything on the drive that you don't want to lose. Alternatively, create a separate partition on the drive for the clone. You will need enough free space on the drive to hold everything that is on your startup volume.
Clone Lion/Mountain Lion using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
     1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu then press the Continue
         button.
     2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.
     3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
     4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it
         to the Destination entry field.
     5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to
         the Source entry field.
     6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.

HT1338 how can make a room from my start up disk in in mac pro

how can make a room from my start up disk in in mac pro

Only you can decide what you want to delete to free up space on your PB, Personally I think you'll find 17 GB won't go very far when you start to add video.
Consider an external drive. Don't forget if you let your free space fall below 10% of the total size of the drive you will risk corrupting your directory structure or causing other damage which may result in a loss of data.

How to make a boot hard drive clone

I would like to make a clone of my 09 Mac Pro Quad 2.93, Snow Leopard boot hard drive. The idea is to install and boot from the clone in the event of a boot drive failure. Can this be done?

You can put the clone on any drive that you find suitable. If you use an internal drive it may be convenient to use backup software to update your clone so it remains a duplicate of your startup drive. This has the added benefit of acting as a backup. Suitable backup software might be:
Backup Software Recommendations
Carbon Copy Cloner
Data Backup
Deja Vu
SuperDuper!
Synk Pro
Tri-Backup
Others may be found at VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on backup and restore. Also read How to Back Up and Restore Your Files.

How to make udev load ALSA driver automaticly?

I have added " modprobe snd-via82xx " (ALSA driver) to /etc/profile.d/mysh.sh, and I could use almost every multimedia software except mp3blaster.
But after I installed udev, the udev load "via82cxxx_audio" (OSS driver) automaticly instead of snd-via82xxx. mp3blaster can work now, but the esd output plug-in of XMMS could not work, so did stardict (is here anyone have ever used it?).
I modprobe snd-via82xxx manually, but have no use.
How to make OSS and ALSA work parallelly? And, how to make udev load ALSA automacticly instead of OSS?

I have knew this method. What I mean is that the udev load OSS driver at boot. Although I modprobe the ALSA driver, my software (stardict) can not play a wav sound (Other software can).
I wants udev NOT to load OSS driver at boot. Or, it is the best, make OSS and ALSA work parallelly,

100's of GB of space on Startup Drive have dissappeared

Ok this is bizarre. When I purchased my MacPro, I formatted one drive to be strictly startup/boot drive and it also contains my applications.
My home folder is on another drive.
My startup/boot/applications drive is more than 300 GB.
I've been using my MacPro all year -- and now all of a sudden my startup drive is full. It's impossible since my largest folder is my applications folder and all of them are less than 20GB.
What can be causing this. I now have 0 space on my applications/boot drive on a 300gb drive
Any advice would be appreciated.

Download and run OmniDiskSweeper which will show your hidden folders and directories, pay attention to
"./Volumes/" as that could contain actual files when it should only have 4k alias mount mounts to drive volumes you've used, if one of them didn't mount and you thought you were copying files.
I would also clone your volume to a 400GB sparse disk image or partition on another drive with SuperDuper.
Your boot drive should never get below 10% free space.

How to make a bootable hard drive

I will be purchasing an external hard drive for my G5 for extra storage. Is it possible to make the second hard drive bootable without actually installing OS X on it? Is there a way to just install a system folder? Or can I just copy the OS X installer to that drive?
I just want to be able to boot so I can run Disk Utility on the main drive when needed without having to use the startup DVD.

Hello! You can also follow Kappy's suggestion below. Tom
Kappy's step by step guide to ext cloning.
This requires two steps and the external drive must be a Firewire drive:
Prep external FW drive:
1. Open Disk Utility from your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.
Clone Using Restore Option of Disk Utility
1. Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
2. Select the startup or source volume from the left side list.
3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
4. Drag the startup or source volume to the Source entry field.
5. Select the backup or destination volume from the leftside list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
6. Check the box to Erase Destination. Skip this step if you've already formatted the drive.
7. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.

HT1338 how to copy a external hard drive to other or copy songs from one to another

how to copy a external hard drive to other or copy songs from one to another

Don't understand exactly what you want to do. Can you restate your question?
You posted in the OS 10.3 forum instead of the MacBook Pro forum. To get answers to your question, next time post in the proper forum. See https://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa I'll request that Apple relocate your post.
Also you show iOS 6.1.4 on your profile. iOS 6.1.4 only runs on a iPhone, not a MacBook Pro.
 Cheers, Tom

HT1338 how to make presentations in macbook pro?

how to make slides n presentations on mac book pro?

Keynote
EDIT: Sorry linked to the iOS app on Mac it's part of iWorkbut you can buy it separately.

How to make a bootable flash drive Disk Utility's "Owners Enabled" function

Being as Apple does not have a discussion group for this wonderful little utility and because Apple has neglected to fix the "Post New Topic" link in the "Special Interest Area>User Tips Library", I have no choice but to post here. I think what I found is useful and I have accomplished it in a way that avoids the need of using the disheartening Terminal.
How to create a bootable flash drive:
Step 1: Obtain a flash drive (e.g., 8GB USB flash SanDisk), OS cd

and because Apple has neglected to fix the "Post New Topic" link in the "Special Interest Area>User Tips Library", I have no choice but to post here.
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=10672620#10672620

How do I copy my startup drive to a new drive.

I have a 2009 MacPro running 10.7.5. I have a 3tb drive and would like to copy my old startup drive to it. My time machine drive has crashed and I do not have the option of copying from it.
Thanks for your help,
ballhawkers

Use a program such as the Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner, or SuperDuper to clone it.
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How to make space, increase speed, and battery

Space is not just taken up by emails. It includes all the "background" apps, bookmarks, messages, music, photos, ibooks and virtually anything is been accessed on your iPhone. Just like closets at home that get over filled and clothes we thought we were going to use your phone and your computer needs to be cleaned out more then once a year.
Here are a few measures that can be used to increase space and might I add battery power and usage proceessing speed to the lifetime of your phone/pad.
The most obvisious items: photos, books, documents, music can be streamline / transferred / exported to a hard drive.
The list below is maybe less thought of:
MULTITASKING: closing all the open apps.
To do this use the button below the screen known as home button with your index finger slide the apps upwards to close apps But make sure you keep the main screen app view open.
BOOKMARKS and READING LIST
Trim all the bookmarks and reading list that you no longer need by deleting it on your phone. If the bookmarks are important enough to keep then store them to your main computing system. You can even create a file and folder on your computer separate from your safari bookmarks by using a spreadsheet with the name of the site and url address.
SAFARI and all other WEB BROWSER COOKIES n DATA
Go to SETTINGS - SAFARI scroll down screen and clear cookies and data.
GPS & MAPS
delete all unnessary directions and locations.
CELLUAR DATA
Go to Settings - CELLUAR
LTE - enable
ROAMING - I prefer voice only so data pile up wont become an issue and only turn on data roaming if I need it.
BACKUPS
Backing up your phone/pad to a computer and a seperate hard drive using time machine saves space on your mobile device while adding an extra resource to recover and lost data.
Think about it if your mobile device is constantly storing old, long forgotten might need one day background stuff how can it have room to go forward and do the hard work you really need.

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