HT3680 how to free up space if startup disk is full
How do I free up space when the startup disk is full?
O Trejo, greetings;
I am not the Wizard but a mere citizen of Oz who wears green tinted glasses as all others do.
DaisyDisk appears to perform a similar function as OmniDiskSweeper which I still prefer due probably due to my familiarity with it.
I am not familiar with OSX Server, so I am off the hook on this one. If you go to the OSX Server forum, there will be forum members who will be able to address your query. This is the link:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/servers_enterprise_software/os_x_server
If you are really nice to them, they may give you a Dog Yummy.
Ciao.
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How to move a file when startup disk is full?
My macbook start up disk is full, apparently. I've tried deleting things and nothing has worked. I need to safely get a video file, in mp4 from Iphoto onto a usb drive. Iphoto will not let me put the file on desktop or move anywhere. What do I do? Help! Please someone.
I have mac OS X 10.6 with 2gb memory.Howdy sunny_93,
One of the more common causes of a full disk on your Mac is failing to empty the Trash. This is needed to recover the space taken by items in the Trash. See this article -
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Another possibility would be to move music or photo files in applications such as iTunes or iPhoto to an external hard drive. See this article for iTunes -
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iPhoto '11: Move your iPhoto library to a new location
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How to free up space in hard disk?
For a rookie like myself, I'd like to know the best way to fix..."Free up 2271 MB on the hard disk to be able to start-up Parallels". I downloaded Mackeeper and deleted many files. And, it's still not enough. Please advise.
Get rid of MacKeeper ASAP, This program is useless.
Follow this guide and you should be good.
Download and Install AppCleaner
Download and Install Find Any File
Run AppCleaner
Click on Applications
Select MacKeeper
Click on Search
Select all results
Click on Delete
Run Find Any File
Search for zeobit
Select and Delete all results (except for those already in the Trash)
Search for mackeeper
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When starting the computer, I get a grey screen and following status: your startup disk is full. How can I still enter (in order to free-up some space)?
Simple way to make HDD free space is delete files you don't need anymore.
Or get bigger drive and external HDD case, then:
1) install bigger HDD in external drive case.
2) connect external drive and format and mount it with Disk Utility.
3) make clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!(source drive is internal HDD, target drive is external one).
4) install external bigger drive into your Macbook Pro.
In the cace if your're using Mac Pro:
1) get bigger HDD and install it in drive bay of Mac Pro.
2) format and mount it with Disk Utility.
3) make clone with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!(source drive is old HDD, target drive is new one).
4) Select boot drive to new bigger one. -
how do i delete from the startup disk? I am trying to get Mountain Lion from the App store and it says that the purchase was not complete because i need 4.06 GB space to download OS x 10.8. and to remove items from my startup disk to increase space. How?
ThanksYou can use iCloud with 10.7.5. You do not need to upgrade to Yosemite. You should provide a minimum of 15 GBs of free space or 10% of the hard drive's capacity, whichever is greater.
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. -
its saying startup disk almost full. have no music or photos on computer. how do i clear it up and free up the HD
There are some items to the right of these reply boxes,
of them a few are likely to be of help to some extent...
Without knowing which OS X version, advice will be not specific
and to answer three different ways when one of them is correct
is a waste of time.
Is your OS X newer than Lion 10.7.5? IF so different rules apply
to finding out what is free space, where it is, & how to tell if it is.
For systems older than Lion (Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, Panther)
the rules are a little different, since there would not be an Other item
on the hard disk drive which could contain items necessary to the OS
yet not detailed to the user.
And Lion 10.7 has a few hidden files that are hard to locate, and one
of them may have some bearing on the missing space of a HDD.
The items here, mostly for 10.7:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24954432#24954432
start up disk full, other options:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/11808734#11808734
There are Support articles, you could use Help viewer in the
system, on your computer, to look for results; or use google.
However, avoid the temptation to use a badware such as cleanmymac,
mackeeper, and others that are sources of known trouble to the Mac.
Good luck & happy computing! -
My startup disk is full?!?! This has been happening for a while and I have dumped 4500 jepegs from iPhoto onto an external drive to try and free up space. I am still recieving the "Startup disk full" message. What more can I do?!?!
Did you empty the Trash?
What size hard drive & how much free space. You should always have a minimum of 10-15% or more free space?
Cheers, Tom -
How can free + used space tbs size, can someone explain
Hi Gurus
Can someone explain this, How can free + used space in a tablespace can be greater than size of a tablespace. What am I missing here . Thanks a lot .
I am on 10.2.0.1, HP-UX
14:38:52 SQL> select owner,sum(bytes), sum(BYTES) /1024/1024 "MB" from dba_segments where tablespace
name='USERDB1ADATA' group by owner;
OWNER SUM(BYTES) MB
USERDB1A 839680000 800.78125
1 row selected.
14:40:42 SQL> select bytes, BYTES /1024/1024 "MB" from dba_data_files where tablespace_name='USERDB1
A_DATA';
BYTES MB
3758096384 3584
1 row selected.
14:40:42 SQL> select sum(bytes) , sum(BYTES) /1024/1024 "MB"from dba_free_space where tablespace_nam
e='USERDB1A_DATA';
SUM(BYTES) MB
3067412480 2925.3125
1 row selected.
14:40:43 SQL> select 839680000 + 3067412480 "used + free space" from dual;
used + free space
3907092480
1 row selected.
New DBAGood point, Howard, about the recycle bin. So I cleaned up, recreated the table, filled it, dropped it but did not purge it, and ...
SQL> create table test.x tablespace test as select * from dba_objects where 1=2;
Table created.
SQL> insert into test.x select * from dba_objects;
12617 rows created.
SQL> commit;
Commit complete.
SQL> drop table test.x;
Table dropped.
SQL> with
2 dbf_size as (select sum(bytes) size_
3 from dba_data_files where tablespace_name='TEST'),
4 dbf_free as (select sum(bytes) free_
5 from dba_free_space where tablespace_name='TEST'),
6 dbf_used as (select sum(bytes) used_
7 from dba_segments where tablespace_name='TEST')
8 select size_, free_, used_, (size_ - free_ - used_) left_
9 from dbf_size, dbf_free, dbf_used
10 /
SIZE_ FREE_ USED_ LEFT_
5242880 5177344 2162688 -2097152
SQL>and then I played around with my SQL and came up with
WITH
dbf_size AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) size_
FROM dba_data_files
WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
dbf_free AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) free_
FROM dba_free_space
WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
dbf_used AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) used_
FROM dba_segments
WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
dbf_fbin AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) fbin_
FROM dba_segments
INNER JOIN
dba_recyclebin
ON (tablespace_name=ts_name
AND segment_name=object_name)
WHERE tablespace_name='TEST')
SELECT size_, -- tablespace size
free_, -- free space reported
used_, -- segment space used
fbin_, -- segment space in recycle bin
(size_ - free_ - used_ + fbin_) left_ -- 64K overhead per data file
FROM dbf_size, dbf_free, dbf_used, dbf_fbin
/which does
SQL> WITH
2 dbf_size AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) size_
3 FROM dba_data_files
4 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
5 dbf_free AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) free_
6 FROM dba_free_space
7 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
8 dbf_used AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) used_
9 FROM dba_segments
10 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
11 dbf_fbin AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) fbin_
12 FROM dba_segments
13 INNER JOIN
14 dba_recyclebin
15 ON (tablespace_name=ts_name
16 AND segment_name=object_name)
17 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST')
18 SELECT size_,
19 free_,
20 used_,
21 fbin_,
22 (size_ - free_ - used_ + fbin_) left_
23 FROM dbf_size, dbf_free, dbf_used, dbf_fbin
24 /
SIZE_ FREE_ USED_ FBIN_ LEFT_
5242880 5177344 2162688 2162688 65536
SQL> alter tablespace test add datafile 'C:\ORACLE\ORADATA\XE\TEST2.DBF' size 5m;
Tablespace altered.
SQL> WITH
2 dbf_size AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) size_
3 FROM dba_data_files
4 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
5 dbf_free AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) free_
6 FROM dba_free_space
7 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
8 dbf_used AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) used_
9 FROM dba_segments
10 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST'),
11 dbf_fbin AS (SELECT SUM(bytes) fbin_
12 FROM dba_segments
13 INNER JOIN
14 dba_recyclebin
15 ON (tablespace_name=ts_name
16 AND segment_name=object_name)
17 WHERE tablespace_name='TEST')
18 SELECT size_, -- tablespace size
19 free_, -- free space reported
20 used_, -- segment space used
21 fbin_, -- segment space used in recycle bin
22 (size_ - free_ - used_ + fbin_) left_
23 FROM dbf_size, dbf_free, dbf_used, dbf_fbin
24 /
SIZE_ FREE_ USED_ FBIN_ LEFT_
10485760 10354688 2162688 2162688 131072Message was edited by:
Hans Forbrich
Cleaned up the script and tested with second data file added to verify LMT overhead. -
After clicking "Download," the iMac seems to download photos from iPhone. Eventually, I get message that I need to free up space on Startup Disc by deleting files. What to do?
You are in a very dangerous situation and you need to fix it now.
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do.
Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk. -
ikeep getting a message that my start up disc is full and i don't know how to free up space.. also when i o to download some files i am told there is no space left to download i bought this macbook pro used an receiver no discs.. what can i do??
You need to purchase an external drive and start moving some files to it or you can try trashing some files that you no longer need.
Download OmniDiskSweeper and see where your larger files are... you can move them to an external drive or trash them: it's up to you.
I would also begin, since it's obviously don't have backups, a backup scheme or two. See Most commonly used backup methods.
Good luck,
Clinton -
I have been getting repeated messages "startup disk almost full". I am on a very new iMac running Lion with the most up to date OS. This is a 1 TB iMac. When I first got the message, I cleaned almost everything but the applications off the disk. I now have more than 900 GB of space but again I am getting the message. I found someone reporting the same problem and he said Apple Care reported a but in the mail system. He found a Fix but it is not working for me. (He clicked the option key and opened finder, then went to Library/mail/mailbox/recovered messages and deleted the recovered messages. But I do not have any folder called "recovered messages" so can't pursue that fix. Any ideas?
I'm don't know about the new systems, but I remember that I set the % full to warn me. Your % might be set to 20% or something rather than 10% which is a preferable safety margin for many uses. I solved this start up disk problem by installing a 2 Tb internal drive and keeping my data files on external, raided, drives. A real show-stopper is when your 45 Tb external drive warns you that you're too close to OUT for comfort. And, Yes, I do keep it trash free.
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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?
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. -
"Startup Disk is Full" even though I have 3.5 GB free
I just upgraded my RAM from 2 GB to 4 GB yesterday (2 x 2GB Kingston DDR2), and today I'm getting a message that my "startup disk is full," even though I have 3.5 GB of space on my hard drive.
I've gotten this message in the past when I only have 100 or 50 MB left on my hard drive, but 3.5 GB of space seems like a lot of room to be getting the "startup disk is full" error.
I know I'm supposed to have 10% of my hard drive free for optimal usage, but I'm wondering whether this error message is an indication that the RAM isn't working the way it's supposed to.
Also, the other thing I noticed acting funny since the RAM got installed was shutdown problems. Today I had to hold down the power button to shut down, since doing it via the finder window was not working.
Thanks in advance for any ideas and tips!
MarkHi Markus,
The sleepimage file is from Safe Sleep. This saves the contents of RAM to the HD each time Mac is put to sleep in case of a "mishap" so that data would be saved. As you've discovered, it can take up a bit of HD space (as much RAM as you have installed). Thus, I've disabled Safe Sleep and trashed that file. Sleep is now faster too. If you care to do this, here are my directions:
Safe Sleep: How to Disable
Safe sleep copies the content of RAM onto the HD prior to sleep, so it can cause very slow go-to-sleep performance (slow), and sometimes additional issues.
To disable Safe Sleep:
Open Terminal.
Copy and paste in the following two commands:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=false
Hit return.
When Terminal is finished doing its thing, type in
Exit
hit return, and quit Terminal.
If you do decide to disable Safe Sleep, there’s also a file you can get rid of to save some space on your HD (this file can be as large as the amount of RAM you have installed, probably 2-4GB for the average Mac).
From the Finder (just click once anywhere on a bare Desktop area to make the correct menu bar appear).
Click on the Go menu and select Go to Folder.
Copy and paste or enter the following in the “Go to the Folder:” field.
/var/vm
Trash the file named “sleepimage.” (Do NOT trash the file named “swapfiles.”)
Close the windows, empty the trash, and you should have faster sleeping and a bit more free HD space. -
My mac air says " startup disk is full".How to solve ???
My Mac air has a message during starting the computer and says that startup disk if full. In the composition of my hard there are 120 GB used space on other parts, which I have not understand where is these files.
First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the available space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal. -
My startup disk is full, I need to clean it up, and I don't know how to even find it!
My startup disk is full, I need to clean it up, and I don't know how to even find it!
Don't mess with anything you don't recognize. The system is generally not the reason for lack of free space.
Best candidates are your files which are located in the folder with the little house for an icon in Finder. Of your own files the one most likely to take the largest amount disk space are music, movies, video and photos. Any of those can be deleted or move to external storage.
Allan
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