My iMac HD is almost full - I need to relocate my library, versions, master

I would like to remove the Aperature Library from my iMac and work with the files on a large HD. How do I go about this - cannot find it in any literature. When I first bought Aperature I was not thinking the library would grow this large and threaten to crash my iMac HD. Thank you!

The person at the Apple store I was working with was named Leif and the Apple store I took it to was Burlingame, SF. Leif was not the Aperture expert but did consult with the expert and advised Aperture will crash when attempting to delete large groups of images. I have experienced it on my iMac on numerous occasions. Some on this forum believe you need more than 2 Gigs to run this software efficiently render images. They recommend 4 gigs? No Apple comes standard with 4 gigs - not even the Mac Pro.

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Hi there can anyone tell me the best option for when my Imac gets to almost full in terms of hard drive capacity ie close to 1TB used?

Most of the space is taken up with photos held with Aperture 3 photo images.
Is there an easy way to install a external hard drive that links to my Imac and can access all the images easily and quickly?
I am a bit concerned that I am going to lose some of these precious memories in the process of transfer.
Also what do people do for backing up these images etc? anythoughts anyone has on this subject would be greatly appreciated, thanks!!

Yes you will need to have either a Firewire or USB 2 external drive. Although Firewire is faster the drivers and or caddies are more expensive than USB and they are harder to find. Firewire is becoming a DEAD Technology. None of the newer Mac computer include a Firewire port and most all Win PCs dropped that port or never updated it to FW 800.
So I suggest you stay with a USB 2 drive as they are readily available and cost much less.
Yes you can have as many connected as you have USB ports or more if you use a USB HUB. Make sure you buy a drive that has its own AC power supply. They work better then the ones that are USB Bus powered and some of the USB Bus powered models have to be connected to 2 USB ports at the same time to supply enough power to them so they work correctly.

Start-up hard drive is full but need to upgrade to new version of I-Photo

I need to move my I-Photo library to my external hard drive because my Start-up disk is full. When I plug in my EHD and try to view a folder, I get the message that the iphoto library needs to be upgraded to work with this version of I-Photo. I haven't moved photos yet and I haven't tried to download because I'm guessing I can't download anything new since my start-up disk is full. It seems like a "Catch-22." What should I do?

Thank you for responding. I tried to move my music file first which didn't work and then documents which didn't work. When trying to move both to the trash after moving to EHD, I got a message stating "documents/music can't be modified or deleted because it's required by MacOSX. I tried the music file first and when that didn't work, I chose the documents file. I feel like I am constantly running into roadblocks like this.

Lightroom says my start up disc is almost full? How is that resolved?

I'm using a Macbookpro with Lightroom 4.4.
Can't imprort photographs (RAW format) from camera card as the start up disc won't allow it.
Where's the start up disc and how is the matter resolved?
Is it a Mac issue or a Adobe issue or a mix of both?

The startup disk is, well, the hard drive or SSD on the Macbook. If it really is almost full, you need to clear some space ASAP before the whole thing crashes. A drive more than, say, 4/5 full is a disaster waiting to happen.
It's called startup disk because that's what it is if you have more than one. Otherwise known as system drive.
If it's a false message I don't know, maybe it's heavily fragmented (yes, I know, that's not supposed to happen on a Mac).

My start up disk says almost full

I keep getting an error that says "your start up disk is almost full you need to delete some files"

Hope this helps.
1. Empty Trash.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
2. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
    Select "Library" from the dropdown.
    Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes
    Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
    Empty Trash. Restart.
3. Repair Disk
    Steps 1 through 7
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
4. For more on this and very helpful tips:
    http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
    http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html

I have an iMac 5.1 with Mac OSX 10.6.8 and 2 GB memory and an L2 cache of 4 GB. lately I have been receiving error messages of " start up disk almost full; please delete files." is the start up disk the same thing as the hard drive?

I have an iMac 5.1 with Mac OSX 10.6.8 and 2 GB memory and an L2 cache of 4 GB. lately I have been receiving error messages of " start up disk almost full; please delete files." is the start up disk the same thing as the hard drive? I opened the hard drive and from the column on the left of the menu I've selected "search for" and under that " all images" then "all documents" I've deleted a few files from each. Are documents and images that I have deleted from here also deleted from the folders on my desktop?

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 iMac'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.
Delete any other mail in your Junk folders. Also, look through your Sent Mail to see if there is anything that can be deleted.
Other things you can do to gain space.
Once you have around 15 GBs regained, do a search, download and install OmniDisk Sweeper.
This app will help you locate files that you can move/archive and/or delete from your system.
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.
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!

Keep getting a popup window stating" startup disc almost full, need to delete files"

keep getting a popup window stating" startup disc almost full, need to delete files", what can i do to help with this, i generally have only photos in iphoto, some imovies, and a small amount of documents

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 iMac'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.
Other things you can do to gain space.
Once you have around 15 GBs regained, do a search, download and install OmniDisk Sweeper.
This app will help you locate files that you can move/archive and/or delete from your system.
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.
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!

My iphone 5c storage is almost full and I need to delete some pictures to free up some space, I pay iCloud for extra storage but I'm afraid if I delete it off my phone that it will delete it from iCloud, is that true? I can't afford to lose these pictures

My iphone 5c storage is almost full and I need to delete some picture to free up some space. If I delete the pictures off of my phone, will they be deleted off of iCloud as well? I cant afford to lose these pictures.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083
Then take pics etc off iphone into a secure location on PC/Mac

My MacBook Pro hard drive is almost full and I wish to store my Aperture Library on an external drive, how do I do this and is the use of USB2 suitable or do I need to use a Firewire external hard drive?

My MacBook Pro hard drive is almost full and I wish to store my Aperture Library on an external drive, how do I do this and is the use of USB2 suitable or do I need to use a Firewire external hard drive?

You'll get better performance if you use a Firewire hard drive (especially if you buy a 7200 RPM drive). Firewire's IO speed is significantly faster than USB 2. USB 2 has a theoretical max speed of 480 Mbps except that it has extremely high over-head. The fastest speeds you can typically get are about 300 Mbps. Firewire, on the other hand, has very little overhead. The fastest speeds you can get are very nearly 800 Mbps. You will typically be constrained by the maximum read/write speed of the drive, not the speed of the I/O on the Firewire bus. Now if you had one of those nice shiny new Macs with the Thunderbolt I/O and a Thunderbolt drive (Light Peak) ... I think they alter space and time so that your data arrives before you know you want it.
Also... unless you want to buy a solid state drive (very expensive), try to keep your hard drives from becoming much more than about 60% full if you want great performance. A nearly "full" hard drive is, on average, only about half as fast as the same hard drive when nearly empty.
USB 2 will work perfectly fine... just not as fast.
Also... it's much safer to move the entire Aperture library than to "relocate masters". Your images must be managed. You can Aperture manage them, or you can manage them. But someone has to manage them. If you "relocate" them so that they are no longer stored inside the Aperture library then you'll need to work out a system of how you decide to organize things and it's critically important that you don't start moving files around or deleting things without Aperture's knowledge. If you do, you'll break the links to your masters and start having problems with missing masters. If you have Aperture manage the library then you don't need to worry about any of that stuff.... it's safer.
Do make backups (use the Aperture Vault or use some other backup program, but make sure you back up your work if you care about it.) There are only two kinds of hard drives in the world: (1) those that have failed and (2) those that are going to fail. There are no exceptions to this rule. Hard drives are cheap. Backup software is built into Aperture and into your Mac.

My HD is almost full. I need to add space. Can I use an external HD to continue using my startup disc as it is?

My HD is almost full. I need to add space. Can I use an external HD to continue using my startup disc as it is?
I create music and have run out of space. the message says 'your startup disc is almost full', and i just thought maybe buying an external hard drive and using it as the startup disc or whatever would do the trick. Does anyone know? Thanks!

External hard drives are relatively inexpensive...see some of those on OWC, www.macsales.com
You can use a large external drive to provide additional space by simply saving material to that volume instead of the startup disk. You can also partition the external drive to use part for Time Machine backups, and another partition for extended space. Or a third partition for a clone of the boot system made by Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, both free downloads, so should the internal drive have problems you could always boot from the external partition.
All of that can be done from Disk Utility.
Keep in mind that Mac OS X gets very unhappy when there is less than 15% of the startup disk space free.

HT1766 We have a refurbished ipod touch 4th gen. The cloud storage is almost full and it won't allow me to back up. Do I need to purchase more storage space or how can I delete apps/pics to make more space? Also, somehow I erased all of the music from th

I have a refurbished ipod touch 4th Gen. I am having problems backing up because the cloud is almost full. I have tried to delete some apps/pics but it won't let me. Do I need to purchase more storage? Also, I accidentally erased all stored music. It is still on my personal computer and I need to know how to get it back on my ipod. A family member set it up for me.

You said " I accidentally erased all stored music.".
You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Your iCloud backup does not include non-iTunes purchases like music from CDs
If on your iPod now:
Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities
You can go to Setting>iCloud>Manage Storage and see what is using the store and delete items from iCloud

What data do I need to remove as I am getting alerts that my start-up disk is almost full?

What data do I need to remove from my laptop as I am getting alerts that my start-up disk is almost full. I have been deleting emails (I still have 4000+ in my inbox).
Also, I have been unable to download software updates nor been able to download more photos from my iPhone because there is too much on my hard drive. I don't know what to delete. I have no books or movies on laptop.
Thanks-----this is my maiden attempt for online discussion support.

Read here > Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
And here > Freeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac Guides
For iTunes you can back up your library...
iTunes: Back up your iTunes library by copying to an external hard drive
Or burn iTunes media to CD/DVD's > How to back up your media in iTunes

I received an email telling me that my icloud storage is almost full. I need to upgrade to the next level. Can someone help me out with this?

I received telling me that my icloud storage is almost full. I need to upgrade my storage. Can someone help me out with this. I understand that the 20 GB is only .99 per month. Just hoping this would be enough for me. I back up 2 ipads and my iphone on the same computer. Any help you can give me would be appreciated. Thank you.

Okay.
I responded as I did because you wrote, "I have 2 ipads and my iphone that I back up on one computer"
No worries here.
But hopefully you get/got it sorted.
Any issues, post back.

I am getting a message that sys startup disk is almost full. I cleaned all my old emails out, archived old ones i needed and erased most files on the computer. I restarted but I'm still getting the message

I am getting a message that sys startup disk is almost full. I cleaned all my old emails out, archived old ones i needed and erased most files on the computer. I restarted but I'm still getting the message

Reindex Spotlight again.
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716
Do not concern yourself about the backups. They will be deleted automatically if space is needed for other data:
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202301
Ciao.

My phone told me it needed more storage - especially to update my iPhone iOS. I decided to as more per month. It's still telling me it's almost full and I can't update. What am I doing wrong?

My phone is telling me it's almost full. Also I have and update to the phone that says I don't have enough storage. I updated this month to a lot more. It's still telling me I need more storage. I don't understand.

Ok and thank you. I did delete a LOT of photos and moved all my music just into my icloud and got rid of apps - really cut it down. i tried deleting music from my library and it won't let me and I have this update thing and I'm not sure what to do.

My iMac HD is almost full - I need to relocate my library, versions, master

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