My photos won't upload to iphoto says start up disc full

I have been trying to upload photos from new Iphone we took on vacation but will not upload all photos because it says the start up disc is full, any suggestions as to what that means or how to fix?

Jason Worman wrote:
I openned up the utility we are down to about 3.8 GB of free space, any suggestions as to what to delete? I did not realize we had used up over 600 GB of space, I did not think a hard drive could fill up, we are starting with deleting movies and apps, anything else we might not be aware of? I really appreciate your help
You need a minimum of 60 to 100G free for correct operation of your internal drive, deletions are unlikely to get you all the way there and then the drive will fill up again.
Buy a large external drive (twice the size of your internal) and move a LOT of files to it.
Everything fills up, even the extraordinarily expensive handbags my girlfriend buys, at their prices I expected them to contain life, the universe and everything .... but they don't

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