My MacPro says the startup disk is too full. I have 4 internal hard drives that have 2T each so there is plenty of space, but all start up programs, libraries, iTunes and application folder are on the '1st' hard drive. Can I move any to 2nd drive?
My MacPro says the startup disk is too full. I have 4 internal hard drives that have 2T each so there is plenty of space, but all start up programs, libraries, iTunes and application folder are on the '1st' hard drive. Can I move any to 2nd drive?
Your system will likely fit just fine on a small fast 250GB SSD
What you have is lots of stuff that should not be on the boot drive, data and graphics or media files and libraries that should be moved to another drive.
If you are getting a message like this, STOP, off load files, make room, and make sure to have 15% free or more.
Do not try to move anything from system and its library and sub folders. Move your home user account and just leave the essential home library but move all the rest.
A full drive can have trouble finding free space segments and writing out updates to files and to the directory. And loss of directory means loss of where files are located and their segments.
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I keep getting this popup that says my startup disk is too full. What does that mean? What can I do about it?
Your signature line computer data appears askew; so as to avoid any
misinformation, please specify your computer model and config info,
OS version(s) and if it is an iBookG4, how you are using OS9...
The hard drive is dangerously full and if you can archive your works
off the computer and save them (as suggested) you will then be able
to see what else you can do to save the computer's system and
check/repair the drive. Too full a hard drive can cause damage to
the low-level area on the drive where data is saved and stored; and
in the process, the operating system and other critical data stored
on the hard drive can become irreversibly corrupted or damaged;
in the worse case, this kind of damage could kill a hard drive.
So, if you have a pile of music saved or images, you should use
an externally enclosed hard drive and make sure it is formatted to
HFS+ (by using disk utility in X Utilities folder) and it should be
a Firewire drive to be sure compatibility as a boot volume if needed.
That could accept a pile of music or images in folders quickly and
allow later easy access to sort them all out for burning to disc, etc.
Or if your computer has a Combo drive, archive stuff to CD-Rs.
Please clarify your operating system and also state the numbers
regarding total hard drive capacity verses your remaining free space.
A drive dangerously full limits the extent of which the system can
work; because the OS uses free space on the hard drive as virtual
memory in addition to the chip RAM for applications and system use.
Sometimes if the hard drive disk is too full, you may find it hard
to make/burn data to an optical disc; if that is the case, you will
see system freezes or stalls; and an external hard drive such
as a FireWire unit would work best in that situation. There may
not be sufficient free space to make any new files or copies; so
if you have duplicate items elsewhere, you can delete/trash
the copies off the hard drive to gain free space. And there is more... -
i got my first macbook air about a year ago. awhile ago i started getting these notifications saying "your startup disk is almost full" or "your startup disk is full". i was wondering how to get more space on my startup disk, if that is possible?
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See 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. -
good night recently my iphone 4s was exchanged for a new one because was defective and was in warranty. the problem is that now I try to use the same apple id on itunes and applications while had bought the old iphone does not appear and I think should appear. Can someone help?
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Hi . Ever since I downloaded the last itunes and quicktime update ( a week or so ago), I can't access any movies or video podcasts i have store in itunes on my pc (vista). iTunes crashes and my error reports tell me it is a quicktime error. Do i uninstall and reinstall quicktime, or completely uninstall itunes and reinstall it -- if so, what will i lose? Help, please!
Let's try the following user tip:
iTunes for Windows 10.7.0.21: "iTunes has stopped working" error messages when playing videos, video podcasts, movies and TV shows -
It keeps saying that my start up disk is almost full. Where do I go to eliminate items in the start up disk?? Thx
Give this page a read for a better understanding of the Storage tab
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html -
The Startup Disk is almost full, I can't update.
I'm a high-school student, I got my MACBOOK pro 15-inch about a year and a half ago.
I've loved it ever since lately, I can't update things. So I keep crashing and the reason I can't update things is because my 'start up disk is full'.
I've done searches on this discussion board but it seems when I type in start up disk it shows it like it's a DISK.
I'm really confused here, and no I'm not MACchallenged, I'm just Leopard OSX challenged I guess.
I really don't like the update.
I wish I never got Leopard, the photobooth ***** now.
It's slow and it pauses. But maybe this is because my 'startupdisk' is almost full. And I need to free memory.
But what is that anyways?
HELP!You need at least 15% free space on your hard drive. So, the solution is to remove files. Get an external hard drive and begin.
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My macbook states that the startup disk is almost full.
Is the "other" catagory applications?
The "other" category is primarily your documents.
See Where did my Disk Space go? for some help troubleshooting this issue. -
Is it possible to Install Lion while having the Application Folder and/or the User Folder on separate drives (other than the startup disk) Leopard didn't really support this as it would have errors with e-mail and other services that where not stored directly on the startup disk.
It's possible, but don't put the Applications folder elsewhere, and keep at least a miminal Admin account on your startup drive (so you can still log on to do troubleshooting, etc., if there's a problem with the other drive).
Many apps are expected to be in the Applications folder on the OSX drive; they may not work on a different drive and/or may not be found or updated when updates are available. Apple and Adobe apps, especially, are subject to this. Don't put them in folders, either, as similar things may happen.
Besides, apps don't take up much space anyway, it's the data that may.
It's often better to keep the home folders on the OSX drive, but put large data folders on a separate drive, such as iPhoto, iTunes, or large video collections. -
I don't consider myself an advanced Mac user but I'm really trying to use my Macbook Air much more than I do... but the biggest hurdle for me is that it's been alerting me that the startup disk has been full for several months now no matter what I do. I'm on 10.9.1 OSX and can't even update to the newer version because I'm always out of space. I have 4GIGs of memory and a 60GB SSD of which 52GB are in use. Using OmniDisk Sweeper, I see I have 14.6 GB in Library of which 8.1 GB is Mail and 5GB is Application Support (and I have nearly 480 MB in Caches and 191 in Containers, 131MB in Messages). As for the rest, I've deleted my iTunes content multiple times but my iTunes library STILL says 1.7GBs in Music. I also have 672MB in Movies which I moved to an external drive and trashed so I'm not sure what still exists here. I only have 2 movie files and I deleted them both! I also have 16.9 MB in hob, whatever that is.
I have 32.8 MB in Logs, 19.8 in Safari, 7.9 MB in Calendars, 5.6MB in Google, 4.3MB in Preferences (!!), and 1.6MB in GameKit (not sure what this is), 1.1MB in KeyChains.
I'm just not sure what's going on. I have everything backed up via SuperDuper on a huge external drive and when I delete on my Mac, it doesn't seem to "take." Is is syncing that's the problem? Are my iTunes music files from my iPhone reinstalling back on the Mac as are all my photos and movies? I don't have that checked in iTunes so that shouldn't be happening either.
Again, I'm not an advanced user so maybe I'm not completing a final step to make sure it doesn't sync with my other devices (I also have an iPad mini). I like to get messages on my Macbook Air when I'm not near my phone but if it means I have 131MB in Messages that I can't pare down, I'd rather not. I see no way to reduce the Messages file so that it's not so large. I definitely want to get a handle on this before I even consider upgrading to a Macbook with more RAM and a bigger hard drive.
Final thoughts: Should I delete my mail accounts and just check mail on the web? Can I delete most of the files in Application Support or leave them alone? What's the difference between the MobileSync files and the MSYNC files?
Thanks in advance for help!Go step by step and test.
1. Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Empty Trash.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806
3. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
Local backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
4. Delete old iOS Devices Backup.
iTunes > Preferences > Devices
Highlight the old Backups , press “Delete Backup” and then “OK”.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
5. Re-index Macintosh HD.
This will take a while. Wait until it is finished.
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409 -
I am getting the popup window that says my startup disk full even after deleting many files.
I am getting the popup window that says my startup disk is almost full. I have transfered most of my photos to an external HD, deleted most of my iTunes library, and emptied the trash. The problem is that with these steps, the diskspace did not increase at all-not even a megabyte. Any ideas why or how to fix it?
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 page that opens.
Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
df -Hl
Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot. -
my mac gives me the message that the startup disk is almost full, what can i do?
You may find this Link helpful...
http://macmost.com/what-to-do-when-your-hard-drive-is-full.html -
HT201364 How do I remove items from the startup disk?
Apparently my startup disk is too full. I looked through my downloads and documents folders and there is barely anything?
1. Increase Disk Space
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806?viewlocale=en_US
2. Startup in Safe Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14204
3. 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.
4. Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
5. Local Time Machine Snap Shots
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14329
6. Re-index Macintosh HD
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409 -
Startup disk is almost full message- what can I do to delete files for more space?
I'm getting a msg saying my startup disk is almost full, what should I do?? to delete fuiles for more space??
Music... Video... Photos take up a lot of space...
See here for tips on
Free Disc Space
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html -
Hello,
I'm trying to run Bootcamp on my 15" Macbook Pro (Maverick). I have 60 gig available on my computer's hard drive and have 250 gig on a separate hard drive that I have attached, which is single partitioned (MS-DOS FAT). It keeps saying "The startup disk does not have enough space, you must have 28 gig of free space available" Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Any help would be much appreciated.Thanks for the advice Bob The Fisherman. I'm just reading what turbostar has kindly written and it appears that perhaps, if I take advice from you both, I need to free more space up on the computer's hard drive?
With the external hard drive; would it be advisable to defragment? Know of any defrag freeware for Mac OSX?
Many thanks to you both.
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