My macbook air has no longer free memory. Now, when i turn it on, all i can see is a blue landskape and can`t see de dock anymore. how can i clean the memory and get free space?
hi, my macbook air has no longer free memory space. I haven`t done anything since it started to comunicate me that. now when i turn it on all i can see is de apple on the top left corner and the rest of the monitor is blue. how can i get some memory space since i can`t even onpen the finder?/
Choose Preferences from the Finder menu, click on the General tab, and uncheck the box to open folders in a new tab.
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