HT3680 How do I free up space on my MacBook Air Hard Drive?

How do I free up space on my MacBook Air Hard Drive?

You need to copy off files to another disk and then delete them from yours.
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How do I free up space on my Macbook Air?

How to free up space on my macbook air?

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Where did my Disk Space go?

HT1338 how does one free up space on a Macbook Air?

I have deleted all the images, music and all downloaded content and still the space does not return. Pls help

Have you restarted your computer? Emptied trash in both the dock & iPhoto?
Quick fix How To Quickly Free Up Hard Drive Space on Mac OS
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How can I free up space on my macbook air?

I have already deleted local versions of movies and music after backing them up to iCloud. I deleted all the games too except for Alpine Crawler.
I am giving this notebook to a friend and I want to clean all of my stuff off before resetting it to factory settings. No matter what I do I can't seem to free up space on the HD.

Giving away / Selling your Mac / Resetting the computer to the factory condition
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
Best.

How do i free disk space on my macbook air

Is there a simple way to find and delete duplicated files and folders.I need to free up much needed disk space,
or there an app that will do it for me ?

Well, iTunes is a start. It duplicates your songs. (at least with me) try looking for the duplicates and deleting them. Second, iPhoto is the DEVIL!
I have a MBP mid-2010 with 250g hard drive, and i freed 30g of space cleaning out duplicate pics that iPhoto makes. There is another 10 I have an option of cleaning, but those are very important to me, so I chose not to.
That's about it.
Btw, check your applications folder and delete anything uneccesary.

Need free space on my macbook air hard drive

hi,
I am reasonably new to owning a macbook, so forgive me this is a stupid problem to fix.
i have filled the hard drive on my mac with music for itunes, now i want to use my mac for work i need the space to save files.
I have deleted all the music from itunes, and within the itunes media folder in finder, moved them all to trash (about 30gb of music!) it came up with a box to enter a password, did that, then low and behold the trash folder is empty.
Look at the space left on my mac now, expecting it to be 30gb emptier, and its not, i still have the same amount of space.
Does any one know how to fix the problem as the files dont appear in the finder now and i am struggling to save doucments!
thanks,

[EDIT: Please heed this warning below (in red)! Thanks.]
WAIT: My bad! --Hold on (for a moment) before you proceed, as this would also eliminate any backups you might have, along with any "versions" I guess, so you should decide if that is what you really want first.
[EDITed: by Frank.]
a) open up Finder,
b) locate your iTunes Library folder where all the music was before,
c) next select its parent folder, and enter Time Machine,
d) make sure that the selected folder is still the correct one.
From there, likely positioned near the center of the Finder toolbar you should find (and) then click the (smart) button sporting a cogwheel and a drop-down arrow, from which you may pick "Delete All Backups of ...".
Hope this helps.

How to delete user accounts and free up space on my macbook air?

How can I delete a user account and free up space on my macbook air ridding of all their details/info/app/software?

Go into system preferences and click on users & groups click the lock icon to unlock it, then select the user click the minus sign.

How do i clear my space on my macbook air

How do I clear my space on my macbook air?

You need to change the premise of your SSD use.
see here:
Your Solid State Drive and having enough space inside your Macbook Air & Pro
Solid State Drive usage premise, or the “more space / upgrade SSD” question
There have been questions posed and positions taken by many people who are trying to use their Macbook Air or Pro’s solid state drive (SSD) as a mass media storage device, for either pictures, videos, massive music collections or all three combined; but this should not be the working premise of a ‘limited’ SSD and its use.
In which, it’s the case of those users with either 128GB, 256GB, or even 512GB of internal SSD space, that have or are running “out of space”, that questions are raised. The immediate premise of some users can sometimes be “(how to / if) upgrading my SSD” when in fact in nearly all instances another approach is the logical and sensible one that needs to be looked into and exercised.
Any Macbook containing a SSD should be idealized as a ‘working platform’ notebook containing all your applications, documents, and weekly or bi-weekly necessary files. All collections of media files such as pictures, music, and videos, unless directly needed should be kept off the notebook and on an external hard drive or likewise. While the ‘working platform’ premise is also the case with larger internal conventional hard drives of 1TB+, its implementation isn't as critical except in terms of data protection.
Realistically, you should at most coordinate roughly 20 to 25% of your total SSD space to all audio-video personal use media (picture / music / video collections), leaving the remaining amount on an external HD.
Nobody should consider any notebook a data storage device at any time under any circumstance, rather a data creation, sending, and manipulation device; and in the case of a SSD, this is more important for purposes of having sufficient working space on the SSD and reducing SSD ‘bloat’ in which cases someone is wrongly attempting to use the SSD space as a large media storage nexus.
The rare exception to the collective usage and premise of SSD use in which a much larger SSD is truly needed are for those in video and photography professions that require both the extremely fast speeds of the SSD and the onboard storage for large and or many video and photography files. However this also falls under the premise of a ‘working platform’ for such peoples rather than the intent of many who are using the SSD as passive and static data storage for media files very infrequently needed or accessed.
All on-notebook data collections should be logically approached as to necessity, and evaluated as to whether it is active or passive data that likely doesn’t need to be on the notebook, allocations of space-percentages to as-needed work and use, apportioning space for your entertainment media, and questioning whether it should it be on the notebook for more than short-term consumption.
Considerations should be made in the mind of any user in differentiating the necessary system data (System hub) comprising the Mac OSX, applications, necessary documents that both must and should be on your internal SSD, and that of the users personal data (Data hub) comprising created files, pictures, music, videos, PDF files, data created or being created and otherwise, that likely unless being used soon or often should be parked on an external hard drive for consumption, or temporarily loading onto the internal SSD.
You both can and should purchase whichever SSD size you need or see fit, but even in the case of the largest of SSD, unless use-considerations are made, and SSD spaces are allocated as should be the case indicated above, one can easily and immediately run into this quandary of “needing more internal SSD space”, in which instance a different approach in usage must then be implemented.
However it is almost always the case, that such large media files are wanted to be stored internally rather than actually needed, in which case the external HD is both prudent as well as necessary. Additionally costs per MB are infinitely less on an external HD than an internal SSD in any consideration of data expansion needs.
A Professional Example
In the case of a Macbook Air or Macbook Pro Retina with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace.
You should also never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your Macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’. This is especially what your external HD is for.
Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their notebooks internal SSD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD.
Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your Macbook has a SSD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your notebook to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.
Slim USB3 1TB external hard drive
External Hard Drives
External hard drives are both extremely cheap and regardless of the size of your internal SSD (or even internal hard drive if the case), you need an external hard drive with your SSD equipped Macbook for several reasons:
1. Data backup and protection.
2. Redundancy for important data.
3. Necessitated ideal space for large media files for collections of pictures, videos, and music etc.
While ever changing in price, typical portable 2.5” external hard drives in USB3 run roughly $65 for 1TB or $120 for 2TB small portable USB3 hard drives. Such drives range in thickness between 5mm and 15mm, with recent improvements in storage of 500GB drives in 5mm profiles.
There is almost no premise in which a small 12mm thick 1 Terabyte USB hard drive cannot be taken along with any Macbook as an external large storage extension inside any Macbook carry case or pouch. Typically such external HD profiles are not much bigger than a deck of cards.
External hard drives are a foregone necessity for purchase with any Macbook for at the very least Time Machine backups, data redundancies, and ideally for large media storage.

How can i get more space on my macbook air?

with a few songs and photos it's saying i no longer have space so i'm wondering
if there's a way to get more memory

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.

How can I permantely delete photos from iPhoto in order to free up space on my MacBook Air?

I am trying to delete photos (which I have backed up on an external drive) from my MacBook Air in order to free up storage space. When I simply drag the photos into the trash and empty, I see no difference in the amount of storage. I also read somewhere that they are also stored in iPhoto, so I have tried to delete them in small batches, only to return to the trash bin and find that the remaining (undeleted) ones are missing. What's going on with this?
I have a MacBook Air (late 2010)

Are you aware that iPhoto has its own trash area? Find it on the left sidebar. Go there and empty the iPhoto trash.

TS4516 How can I free up storage on a Macbook air 11-inch, mid 2012?

I have tried everything..., deleting pictures, videos, random documents, cleaning up all I know how to do and I still have zero space left in storage...., besides getting an external harddrive (which I will) WHAT ELSE CAN I DO NOW?!

So why is this here in Boot Camp forum? are you using Windows or wanting to install Windows using Boot Camp?
With the Air not sure about internal upgrades but were you using TimeMachine? maybe you have some pending backups.
Don't use it until you can figure it out. That means boot into Recovery Mode and repair the disk for one thing. Running a Mac on zero free space is asking for the directory to your files to totally fail. Less than 10% free is dangerous (should alert when you get to 10GB free space if it were smart).
Learn how to clone your system.
Kappy
Re: I'm getting this error with bootcamp "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned"Aug 20, 2012 7:26 PM (in response to jobu00)Boot Camp must be able to allocate a contiguous block of space on the drive. If it cannot find 10 GBs of contiguous space, then you cannot create the Windows partition.
You will have to backup your OS X partition to an external drive, boot from the external drive, use Disk Utility to repartition and reformat your hard drive back to a single volume, then restore your backup to the internal hard drive.
Get an empty external hard drive and clone your internal drive to the external one.
Boot from the external hard drive.
Erase the internal hard drive.
Restore the external clone to the internal hard drive.
      Clone the internal drive to the external drive
Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
      Destination means the external backup drive. Source means the internal startup drive.
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager appears. Select the icon for the external drive and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
After startup do the following:
Erase internal hard drive
Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your internal hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Do not quit Disk Utility.
      Restore the clone to the internal hard drive
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the internal hard drive. Source means the external startup drive.
Note that the Source and Destination drives are swapped for this last procedure.
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http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone.html
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7032/carbon-copy-cloner
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How do i create disc space on a macbook air?

I have been trying to download photos. Have been messing around with icloud and then had iphotos update. Now I keep getting messages that I don't have enough disc space. Can't update any apps. Becoming paralyzed. How do I make space. What can be deleted? HELP

Backup your system and files to drive #1
Off-load files to drive #2
MBA internal drive is not likely to be user upgradable but that would be best solution.
See if this can be moved to MacBook Air forum

I want to find out how much space on my macbook pro hard drive is from iphoto pics

i have a macbook pro (2008) w/186 g hard drive, w/OS 10.5.8. I want to find out how much (% or # of gigabytes) of the hard drive is pics from iPhoto. does it sort by type (e.g., apps) ?

Click on Pictures in the Finder’s sidebar, select the iPhoto library, and choose Get Info from the File menu. If you’re using multiple libraries, you’ll need to do this on each one.
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How can i eject a bad cd from macbook air external drive?

I have a Macbook Air and an external superdrive. On the mac keyboard doesn't have an eject button.. how to eject a bad cd?
Thanks in advance!

On the late 2010, there is an eject button. You might have a newer model. Either way:
(1) Minimize any open programs you have up and running.
(2) Drag the SuperDrive icon to the trashcan and it will eject
(3) If the icon isn't on the desktop, find it by opening finder and right-click select eject or drag it to the trashcan
Sly

My MacBook air hard drive died how and where can I fix it?

I need some help my MBA hard drives died I do not have any clue what to do. I also do not have the original softwere. Please help

I'm confused as to why you don't know what to do. Is there some reason why you can't take it right back to where you bought it? You say it's first gen--you mean 2008? Do you have Apple Care?
If you are no where near where you bought it, you can take it into any Apple store, or to any Apple authorized dealer and they should be able to take care of it, or, if you have Apple Care, you can call the Apple Helpline. Apple will send you a box, you send them the computer and they fix it and send it back. If you have Apple Care you probably won't have to pay. If you don't, then you might want to know how much it's going to cost you.

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