Making more space on startup disc

How do I make more space on the startup disc?

You'll have to get a external drive and move some of your file over there.
Usually video files are the biggest hogs of drive space.
This is free program to help you visualize where the space has gone, download it after you have freed some space first moving a big file or something to the external drive.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/#download
When you hook up a external drive, a backup program called TimeMachine is going to start to ask you to make it a TM drive for backup, this is just a copy of your present contents, it's NOT a storage drive.
TM drives just copy whats on your startup drive, keeps deleted stuff for some time and later deletes it, so it's not there pernamently, it lets you recover files you deleted or older versions.
You should make a TM drive, and then use another drive to use as extra storage space by moving files there, then the TM drive updates and eventually those files are removed from TM, depending how much space is on it.
Files on the storage drive are not removed until you remove them, or something happens to the drive (have two copies of your data at all times)
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html

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