HT1338 My start up disc is full. How can I delete files?

My startup disc is full. It ways to delete files to make more room. How can I do all that?

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    Other than that, your easy choice are music, video, and photos. They tend to be the big files. A movie will generally be at least 1.25GB, for example.

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    2. Open your browser and clear the history. How you do that depends on your browser. Post back please if you need help on this.
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    1. Start up in Safe Mode.
        http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
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        http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
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        iTunes > Preferences > Devices
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        http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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    where can I find the Start up disk on theMac Book Air?
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    - do you have more than one user on the computer?  If you do, ensure they are needed.  If not, delete them, and the contents of their home folders
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    - deleting data off your computer
    - moving data to an external drive - (iPhoto Libraries, iTunes Libraries or iMovie events, as they are the biggest space hogs)

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    http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

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  • Start up disk almost full - what can I delete?

    I keep getting this error msg - startup disk is almost full delete files and I am sure there are useless files on here somewhere...
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    In addition to the XLab's advice (which is always very good advice) what I would recommend doing is moving your media (music, photographs and music) onto an external HD. Media tends to take the most space and offloading them from the internal HD is easy and a wise thing to to. Here some Apple Article about how to do so, I think you will agree it's a pretty easy solution.
    iPhoto: How to move the Library to EHD
    iTunes: library on EHD
    Roger

  • How can I delete files on my start-up disk?

    How can I safely delete my files?

    Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
    See Lion's Storage Display.
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    Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
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