My idisk startup is saying it's almost full. How do i clean it?

My idisk startup is saying it's almost full. How do i clean it?

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    I barely have any apps, only 36 pictures and 600 songs yet my iphone says it's almost full in storage.  But when I add up all the totals of my usage it's half of what my phonse says its using. whats up?

    Connect to itunes and see where it says the storage is being used.

  • I have 4 apps on my phone and 17 pics and my phone keeps saying storage is almost full.. i have a 16gb phone and it says only 12.1gb are being used, why does it keep saying my storage is full?

    i have 4 apps on my phone and 17 pics and my phone keeps saying storage is almost full.. i have a 16gb phone and it says only 12.1gb are being used, why does it keep saying my storage is full?

    Can you connect to a wifi source on the device? Enable wifi in settings on the device itself. If you don't have wifi at home, there may be a local hotspot you can use for this.
    The reason this happens is carriers don't want people downloading huge files that would slow their network as well as eat up your data plan.

  • "Your Startup disk is almost full"  How do you fix this?

    Someone please help! More and more frequently my Mac Mini (Mac OS X Version 10.5.8) say that "My startup disk is almost full" So I deleted everything non critical to the maintenance and function of my Mac Mini but still it tells me that my "Start up disk is almost full" Also some important information. I tried installing Boot camp to my mac but halfway though the installation something went wrong. I took out Windows XP (the program i was trying to place on Boot Camp) and a message saying "No bootable device" appears. It appears everytime I try to turn my Mac on unless i hold down the command key during startup which then gives me the option to select "Hard Drive". Also some applications Ex. iTunes will refuse to startup at all and say "iTunes cannot be opened. An unknown error has occurred (13014). I do not know what (13014) is and I cannot find it anywhere. Can someone *PLEASE HELP ME!* I think the problem can be solved by getting the failed Bootcamp program on but I am not totally sure.

    OK, so you have one of the first Intel Mac Mini's that came out. I also have one of those models but now has a bad logic board.
    What about the other part of the question above?
    Do you have 2 Hard Drive icons on your desktop still?
    Or just the one?
    If you have 2 icons, then you still have 2 partitions...
    If you only have the one HD icon, then your HD is only 60 GB in size and you are running out of room as you only have 8.6 GB left which is getting minimal...
    You may be running out of HD space as it appears you only have a 60 GB Hard Drive.
    You may have a lot of music, movies, photos, etc., that are taking up a lot of space.
    If that is the case, I would suggest buying an external Hard Drive to store your music, movies, photos, and other items like that on which will free up your internal drive.
    I have an external 500 GB Hard Drive attached to my Mac MIni... This gives me a lot of extra room to grow and I also have it partitioned so I can use Time Machine to backup my internal HD...
    If you don't already have some kind of backup, an external drive is one good way to have a backup.

  • Computer says disk is almost full, but I have 14 GB free

    iBook G4 1.33
    OS 10.5.8
    1.5 GB of ram
    40 gig hard drive
    I  get a message that says that the disk is almost full.  In disk utility, it states that 36 out of 37 gb of hard drive space has been used.  However when I open the finder window after clicking on the hard drive (the first level showing applications, library, system, users),  it only adds up to about 23 gb of space being used once I select calculate all sizes.  It doesn't show me the other 13 gigabites that would add up to 36.
    I don't have the 10.5 CD's since I bought this off of ebay preloaded with the os.
    I've already repaired drive holding the shift key upon startup.  I've ran cocktail pilot mode to run scripts, repair permissions, empty cache, etc...I turned on invisible items using cocktail to see if I can find the extra gigabites to no avail.
    It is not connected to the USB external drive.
    File Vault is off.
    Any other suggestions.

    Seems there's some hidden File/Folder on the drive.
    Let's try another way, get Find Any File...
    http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
    Set it up File Size is greater than 3gb, hold Option key when selecting Find to Find all.
    Then try EasyFind...
    http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/
    Near the bottom of the page.
    Search your whole drive for Files Only, Case Insensitive, Include Package contes, include hidden for something like just a dot/period . then sort on Size.
    Other things that may find this...
    WhatSize...
    http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13006/
    Disk Inventory X...
    http://www.derlien.com/
    GrandPerspective...
    http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

  • My iPhone 4 is very slow and lagging bad. It also says storage is almost full but I have a lot of storage left? Please help

    My iPhone 4 is lagging bad and is taking forever to send messages , it also is saying that storage is almost full but i have 1.5GB left on my 6.3GB. Please help I have tried doing a soft restart by holding the home and power button that didn't help. Please help me

    Yes I have I've deleted all my apps I had on it except the ones I can't and I have deleted most of my photos..

  • Startup disk almost full--how to change the defualt free space amount?

    I know that not too long ago I was able to change the default value that OSX uses to determine if the startup disk is almost full (5 GB?). For the life of me, I can't remember how I did that. I do know that it was a simple process--no terminal, no Unix, just a simple dialog box somewhere.
    Can anyone remind me how to make this adjustment?

    There is no such parameter built-in to OS X. You must have been using some third-party disk monitoring utility.

  • ICloud Storage is almost full -- how do I clear my iPhone Camera Roll back-up without losing my photos?

    Hi.  My iCloud storage is almost full and my iPhone Camera Roll seems to be the main culprit.  So...
    1.  I think that they way to free up my iCloud storage is to go into iCloud management and delete the back-up of the iPhone Camera Roll.  Right?
    2.  If yes, does deleting my iPhone Camera Roll from iCloud back-up delete the photos from my phone entirely?
    3.  Also, if I have already saved my iPhone photos to my iPhoto Library on my computer (via hard line sync), should I be worried about deleting the iCloud back-up of the iPhone Camera Roll?  (In other words, will deleting the back-up on my phone somehow tell my iPhoto to delete the copies of the photo as well?)
    Any tips would be appreciated.  Thanks!!

    Here's a tip: Part of what I do is photography, so I normally treat my iPhone as another camera. So, what I do is after I have finished taking some shots/videos with it, I download them to my computer (in my case, via Aperture). For everyone else, on the Mac there is the free Image Capture app, or the iPhoto app (which, if you have the latest version of Lion, it isn't built in there, so you would have to download it from the App Store for a fee).
    I have made it a habit to use this method whenever I finish taking pictures at the end of a day (but that's just me). Also, keep in mind that the videos that you take on your iPhone can take up a lot of space very quickly (for instance, one minute of 720p HD video recorded on the iPhone takes up over 300 MB of space!), so you would need to keep that in mind when shooting videos. SO, to answer your questions above:
    1) Right.
    2) No, because it is only a backup, not the Camera Roll itself.
    3) You should not be worried about deleting the iCloud backup of the iPhone Camera Roll. What would happen (in terms of the method) is that you first would download them to iPhoto first, then delete the images from your Camera Roll. This then would free up your iCloud storage space. Lastly, placing them in your iPhoto app will not tell your backup on your phone to delete them. When you delete the images from your camera roll, your "backup" will be smaller in size than it was beforehand.... Hopefully that made sense.

  • My icloud storage says it's almost full yet I don't know why

    I've read that a photo stream does not affect the icloud storage but how do I know what I should delete in order to free up more storage? I'm clueless to this stuff. Thanks.

    You are correct about photo stream; it doesn't count against your storage.
    If you go to Settings>iCloud>Storage & Backup>Manage Storage you will see what is using your space.
    If you tap the name of your device under Backups, it will tell you what is using space in your backup.
    This guide provides options for managing and reducing these: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4847.
    (Often, importing your photos and videos to your computer and deleting them off your device, as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083, will significantly reduce the size of your backup and reduce the space used in your iCloud account.)

  • My phone says storage is almost full

    What can I do....I have 1700 pictures on my phone...I really do not know how icloud works so if I delete them will they still be saved?

    No.  Before deleting them, import them to your computer using your usb cable, as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.

  • "Startup disk almost full" How do I fix this?

    How do handle this?  Thank you.

    Help here >  Freeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac Guides

  • My startup disk is full:  how do I clean it up?  Simply deleting some files does not help.

    I get the message that my startup disk is full. It says to delete some files to make more space; but after deleting some files, this message will reappear again after a while.  What else can be done?

    I hope you haven't removed anything that involves the system.
    I hope you haven't remove things willy nilly, either.
    Here are some general tips to keep your Mac's hard drive trim and slim as possible
    You should never, EVER let a conputer hard drive get completely full, EVER!
    With Macs and OS X, you shouldn't let the hard drive get below 15 GBs or less of free data space.
    If it does, it's time for some hard drive housecleaning.
    Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.
    Have you emptied your Mac's Trash icon in the Dock?
    If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
    If you store images in other locations other than iPhoto, then you will have to weed through these to determine what to archive and what to delete.
    If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
    Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive to disc, flash drives or external hard drive, older emails you want to save.
    Look through your other Mailboxes and other Mail categories to see If there is other mail you can archive and/or delete.
    STAY AWAY FROM DELETING ANY FILES FROM OS X SYSTEM FOLDER!
    Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
    Again, archive to disc, flash drives, ext. hard drives or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
    Look in your Applications folder, if you have applications you haven't used in a long time, if the app doesn't have a dedicated uninstaller, then you can simply drag it into the OS X Trash icon. IF the application has an uninstaller app, then use it to completely delete the app from your Mac.
    To find other large files, download an app called Omni Disk Sweeper.
    Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
    When you install and launch it, let it do its initial automatic tests, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run the maintenance tabs that let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
    Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
    move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
    If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be archived or moved, also, to the optical discs, flash drives or external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
    Good Luck!

  • HT3275 Time Machine says the backup is full, how to create more space on my time machine?

    When i attempt to backup, time machine says that it does nto have enough free space to backup, how can i create enough space so that it will continue to backup?

    Time Machine automatically deletes old snapshots when necessary to make room for a new one. If you're getting that message, it means that all your old snapshots have been deleted, and there is still not enough room to back up all your data. Either you must make some drastic exclusions from your backups, or you must back up to a larger destination volume.

  • Start up almost full how do i check what's filling it?

    can somebody tell me how to figure out what is taking up space on my start up disk? i know there's a utility where it will list everything in oreder by size but i can remember what it is.

    http://www.macupdate.com
    WhatSize and OmniDiskSweeper (free now) - there are others.
    1. dont use your disk until you get it down to 10% free or more, 10GB minimum free space.
    2. sometimes you can find entire drive volume under "/Volumes" - use the Go To Folder command in Finder.
    3. Clone your drive with SuperDuper to a new drive.
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    4. Run Disk Warrior or 3rd party

  • I keep getting warnings that my icloud space is almost full, but I have almost 1GB left

    I recently upgraded my iPhone 4S to iOS 8, then a couple of days later got an iPhone 6 (obviously with iOS 8), 64GB. I've removed the backups from my old phone, so in my iCloud, it's telling me there's a backup for my iPad of around 800MB and my (new) iPhone of around 3.2GB. All this seems right (it's mostly photos). I am now getting periodic pop-up warnings from iCloud (running on Windows 7 64-bit Pro) that say "iCloud storage almost full". It's showing that I have about 975MB free which while not a lot, is sufficient since each backup should continue to be around the same size.
    The thing that's annoying is that I seem to be getting this warning pretty frequently. I haven't timed it, but it seems like these warnings are happening every 10 or 15 minutes. Is there some threshold of free space that I need to maintain to prevent these warnings?
    Would deleting my backup and creating a new one help?

    In answer to your first question, unfortunately you don't get allocated more iCloud storage as you buy more devices - it is 5GB free per account.
    Regarding the pop-up, I too find it annoying but you won't find a resolution to it on these forums - best thing to do is to submit feedback to Apple and hope they improve it.
    https://www.apple.com/feedback/

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