Mac OS X problem w/ availible space in startup disk

Does anyone know what to do to clear some space in startup disk?...Says there is now no more space available for application memory. How do I do this?

You will have to transfer to an external HDD and/or delete files from the internal HDD. I suggest that you use OmniDiskSweeper (free) which you can download from the Internet. It will show all of your files and the respective sizes.
DO. NOT FORGET TO EMPTY TRASH!
Ciao.

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the space of startup disk continuously decrease, even i haven't saved any thing after every utilization of my macbook air(10.6.6). this problem appears recently. initial free space of my laptop is up to 16 G, but i find it decreases every time i start the computer.now only it rests 1.6G free space now.
i run 'tech tool protection', i found it is DIECTORYbackup took all spaces. but i duno how to delete these back up to release space

*Disconnect all peripherals from your computer.* Boot from your install disc & run _*Repair Disk*_ from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select *Disk Utility.*
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click *First Aid.*
Click _*Repair Disk.*_
Restart your computer when done.
*(Any errors that cannot be fixed, you will need a stronger utility - DiskWarrior or TechTool PRO)*
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751 and restart your computer.

No space on startup disk? Problem with Mail?

Bought a new MacBook Pro Retina 15, 8mb ram. Recently when running Mail, it refuses to close when I quit the application. Worse, I get a window (screenshot attached) saying that I have no more space for running applications on my startup disk, even though just running Mail and Firefox. Any suggestions?

Your problem is excessive swapping of data between physical memory and virtual memory.
That can happen for two reasons:
You have a long-running process with a memory leak (i.e., a bug), or
You don't have enough memory installed for your usage pattern.
Tracking down a memory leak can be difficult, and it may come down to a process of elimination.
In the Activity Monitor application, select All Processes from the menu in the toolbar, if not already selected. Click the heading of the Real Mem column in the process table twice to sort the table with the highest value at the top. If you don't see that column, select
View ▹ Columns ▹ Real Memory
from the menu bar.
If one process (excluding "kernel_task") is using much more memory than all the others, that could be an indication of a leak. A better indication would be a process that continually grabs more and more memory over time without ever releasing it.
The process named "Safari Web Content" renders web pages for Safari and other applications. It uses a lot of memory and may leak if certain Safari extensions or third-party web plugins are installed. Consider it a prime suspect.
If you don't have an obvious memory leak, your options are to install more memory (if possible) or to run fewer programs simultaneously.
The next suggestion is only for users familiar with the shell. For a more precise, but potentially misleading, test, run the following command:
sudo leaks -nocontext -nostacks process | grep total
where process is the name of a process you suspect of leaking memory. Almost every process will leak some memory; the question is how much, and especially how much the leak increases with time. I can’t be more specific. See the leaks(1) man page and the Apple developer documentation for details.

What is my best solution for creating space on startup disk?

So, I'm a novice with Apple...novice in computers general actually.
I have about 58GB of music in iTunes and 85GB of photos in iPhoto- my two favorite things in life. I own a Time Capsule and it is set to do backups on my MacbookPro. My problem is that I have been getting "startup disk is almost full" notifications and have been trying to figure out how to create space without losing my data. How do I accomplish this? How do I know that Time Capsule has it if i delete it on my laptop and how do I get to it? I'm a little nervous to do anything but need the space.

Replace your hard drive with one that has a larger capacity.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain 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.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

Shrinking HD space on startup disk.

Greetings.
I've been using final cut pro at work for quite a while now, but I've been having a problem I haven't been able to fix yet, and I'm even not 100% if it's final cut the culprit.
Basically seems that my space on the Macintosh HD drive keeps dissapearing. I'm constantly freeing up space, and something seems to be taking it and I get the "startup disk is almost full" message. Just today, for example, I got it, freed 6 gigs of space by copying some old videos to an external HD, went back home for lunch, came back 2 hours later, and it was filled again. A couple of weeks ago I managed to get over 20 gigs free, and since then it filled up again, and I have no clue what's taking it.
One thing I've noticed is that if I select the whole contents of the HD and click on more information, it tells me I have about 150 gigs of files... but the drive itself tells me I have over 230 gigs used, and the cicle keeps repeating, me deleting stuff, space filling back up.
This computer has final cut pro 5 open most of the time (what I use for work), with photoshop CS, After Effects 6.5 also most of the time (though much less frequently than FCP) and DVD Studio Pro sometimes.
I have FCP's scratch disk set to an external, and DVD Studio pro set to use the same drive than the project, so no idea what's being saved there. FCP's autosave is set on the startup drive, but every 20 mins and the files are so small that I doubt they might account to such a fast space consumption. The autosave folder is about 30 gigs in size now, but hasn't really grown up lately so can't be that either. Also once I found a log file (while searching for files over 1 gig) that was 12 gigs in size, but haven't found any other big one since then, and the folder it was on isn't even 100 megs in size after that, so I'm clueless.

Use Disk Inventory X to find out what is taking your free space. http://www.derlien.com/
It might be that a corrupted Log file is running amok and writing to itself repeatedly. Track it down and delete it. The first suspect would be that 12 GB file you mentioned. Log files are typically a few hundred Kb in size. It will not actually harm your system to delete all the log files. They just provide a useful record for when something goes wrong.
Why is your AutoSave folder at 30 GB? You only need those as a fall back in case you mess up the current working project. So long as you are saving your regular project file during and at the end of a session, you don't need the AutoSaves. Even less so those for projects that are long since finished.

Free space for startup disk

How much free space is recommended for the startup disk? I have a lot of movies and TV shows, I have them on ICloud.
Thx, Macmanuserid

If it's a boot hard drive and your interested in maintaining the computers maximum read/write performance, no more than the first 50% of the drive filled.
Meaning no files or anything on the second 50% of the boot hard drive, this can be done by creating a second partition in Disk Uitlity, provided there is ample room. If there isn't, then there is something there already and you have to reduce items so only 50% of the boot hard drive is filled, then do a defrag via my method here to shift the data up to the first 50% of the boot hard drive.
BootCamp: "This disc can not be partitioned/impossible to move files."
How to safely defrag a Mac's hard drive
You can still get decent performance from a boot hard drive until it's about 80% filled, however in later OS X versions there are a lot of large hidden caches like versions, timemachine local backups (laptops) and such that will unfortunatly push your newly created or transferred files to the more slower parts of the boot hard drive.
If you have a boot SSD then don't let it get more than 80% filled.
However other things can make a computer slow,
Why is my computer slow?

Help in getting making space for startup disk.

When I open up a user file on my Mac mini, nothing comes up except a background and the mouse arrow. I need to make more space on my startup disk by deleting files. I can't do that because the users won't open up properly.

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Having problems with my Macbook Air startup disk?

I bought this laptop last spring and lately it's been giving me some problems.
First of all, my startup disk is already full. I only use this as a home computer for schoolwork, photos, music, etc. Not sure if the reason it's full is because of pictures. Does anyone happen to know how many pictures you can out on a Macbook until it's maxed out?
Also, when I try to update the software it tells me I need more storage space. So I tried to get into iPhoto to delete some pictures but it says I don't have permission to "write to photo library."
I apologize if this is too general of a question but I figured I'd ask here before calling Apple for help.
Thanks for any tips you can give me in advance!

Back up all data.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, they may not work as described.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box markedAllow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click anywhere in the following line on this page to select it:
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take a few minutes to run, or perhaps longer if you have literally millions of files in your home folder. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

Running out of space on Startup Disk

I keep getting a message that I'm running out of space on my Startup Disk every time I try to do certain things with software on my Macbook Pro. it's a year old and shouldn't really be having this problem. Why might this be happening? What do I have to delete to keep it from happening again?

You may be better served by reposting in the MacBook Pro forums. You are in the one for older PowerBook G4s.
If you have the original MBP (Silver keys), the forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=250
If you have the "Unibody" (aka "Late 2008/early 2009") MBP, the forum is here:
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=251

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.

Insufficient space on startup disk for updates

Not sure how and what to delete. Have deleted a lot of pictures but can't think of much else to delete.

See this FAQ on freeing up space on your startup disk.

Space on startup disk

How do I remove items from my "startup" disk to free up space?

You should make sure the disc is not over 85% full. See this tip on how to do that*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
* Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Which disk did Time machine backup if running Mac OSX 10.6.8 on an external startup disk?

The original hard drive on my 2007 iMac was pretty full, so I was using an external hard drive as the startup disk while I got around to replacing the original hard drive. I could still see the original hard drive and its contents and it still had a bootable copy of OSX 10.6.8 on it, but I was starting up from the external drive running OSX 10.6.8. I recently attached another external drive and backed up with Time Machine. Now the original internal hard drive has crashed. I can no longer see it to even try to repair it. My question is, was that internal hard drive backed up with the Time Machine backup, or was only the external startup disk backed up? If the internal one was backed up, how can I retore it's contents to another drive? - Thanks

Sorry to hear.
Other possibilities...
Data Rescue...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
rccharles on file recovery...
"Stellar Phoenix Macintosh - Mac data recovery software, recovers data from damaged, deleted, or corrupted volumes and even from initialized disks."
They have a trial version, so I guess you can see if your data can be recovered...
http://www.stellarinfo.com/mac-data-recovery.htm
FileSalvage is an extremely powerful Macintosh application for exploring and recovering deleted files from a drive or volume. FileSalvage is designed to restore files that have:
    * been accidentally deleted.
    * become unreadable due to media faults.
    * been stored on a drive before it was re-initialized/formatted.
http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id= 1

I keep getting error message "not enough space on startup disk" on my macbook 10.6, even though I've deleted and compressed many files. Could something else be the problem?

Somehow 1500 web pages were downloaded into my iphone app! That's when the trouble began Now, I keep gettig error message"not enough room on your start up disc. "So I deleted most of theml, but when I compress/delete files, it doesn't help. Now i'm unable to back up to a disc, because I get a similar message about lack of room.. I can't download apple updates or printer updates. My computer is almost unusable. When I took it to the Apple store they had no idea what was wrong.
I bought an external hard drive-Free Agent Go Flex which doesn't seen to function, and has no user interface and apparently little tech support. My cursor is all over the place. No one at Apple seems to be able to fix this computer. Any suggestions for my next move?
Thank you.

See Here for Troubleshooting
Free Disc Space
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
See Here for Resolving Startup Issues
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1417

"Running Low on free space in Startup disk"?

I am trying to burn a DVD and after so long the message comes up saying i am running low on free space. I have checked my internal drive and amazed at what is being used.
Capacity: 55.77GB
Available: 1.44GB
54.36 Used on Disk.
Can anyone tell me how i can make free space and delete whatever is using all my memory? Its not being used in any of my programmes that i use, i.e. itunes, imovie etc.
Any help would be great. Thank you.
IBook G4, Powerbook 6.3 Mac OS Extended

First of all, it is dangerous to have that little free space. OS X needs some breathing room (about 5-10% of the HDD free).
The files could be anything, really. Music and Videos, including Garageband loops take up a ton of space. I would snag an external firewire drive and put some stuff on there.
Your problem is hard drive space, not memory, FYI. If you are running Tiger (10.4.x). Google and download "Tiger Cache Cleaner" (there is also a Panther version). Running it may free up some space, as will running Monolingual, which strips other languages from your machine.
Another thing you can check is your printer database. If you go to Macintosh HD--> Library--> Printers, you can delete any printer driveers you don't need. (Be careful with this, as it requires your admin. password...)
iSMH
Ps- the OS also takes up some space, as do 3-rd party applications.
Let me know how it goes.

Mac OS X problem w/ availible space in startup disk

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