My start up disk is nearly full how do I fix this?

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
See Lion's Storage Display.
You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
See Where did my Disk Space go?.
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.

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"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.

For a while now my computer has been saying " Start up disk is nearly full", however I don't have a lot of stuff saved on the computer I moved a lot to a flash drive, and all the other stuff are songs and recently saved essays for school. Help.

For a while now my computer has been saying " Start up disk is nearly full", however I don't have a lot of stuff saved on the computer I moved a lot to a flash drive, and all the other stuff are songs and recently saved essays for school. I have and frequently empty my trash can. I have researched this before and i see a lot of things that say get a external hard drive, but before I go and purchase one I want to make sure there is no other, simpler way, to solve this problem. Help Please.

You need an external drive so you can free up disk space. Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you have a minimum of 15% free disk space.
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk

HT201364 my macbook air states "start-uP disk is full" how do i fix this?

my macbook air states "start-uP disk is full" how do i fix this?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
You need to remove files. First, if OS X does not get into Desktop and you only see that message, turn off your Mac and hold the Shift key while your Mac is starting up to start up in safe mode.
There are different things you can do in order to get free space in the MacBook Air hard drive. Have a look at this website > http://thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
Apart from that, you can also delete personal files or move them to an external drive

My hard disk is full how do i fix this?

I have a macbook pro with OSX lion and i have one of those time capsules. This happened before or something similar to this did and basically the way my cousin got me to fix it is he had me open the terminal app, type in "sudo tmutil disablelocal", then have me enter my pasword and then restart my computer....it worked the last time this happened and he basically said instead of my laptop just backing up to the time capsule it was saving it to both the time capsule and my macbook. Yesterday i got the "unable to do this because the startup disc is full" message so i looked and it seemed like it was the same thing. when i go to about this mac and then go to more info and then storage it says i only have 42.97 gb out of 318.89 gb. it says 35.98gb is audio, 18.33gb is movies, 546.5mg is photos, 4.95gb is apps, backups it says 0kb, then it says i have 216.12gb of "other". this is exactly what it looked like last time when it was the backup problem...how do i fix this? its really slowing down my computer. HELP!

Well both kinda. if this "other" is because its backing up to both devices then yes i want to get rid of all the backup on my macbook because i have it on the time capsule so i dont need it on here. but also to make it back up to one device only if that is the problem.

HT1338 If there is no sound/music playing, computer starts to make white noise. After sound/music starts, computer pops speakers/headphones. How can I fix this?

If there is no sound/music playing, computer starts to make white noise (unless muted). After sound/music starts, computer pops speakers/headphones (white noise stops). How can I fix this?

Hello Stacey,
What all devices do you have connected?
It sounds like a Ground loop... voltage leaking somewhere.

HT1349 When I click on a song in iTunes, I get an error message that the song could not be located. This just started happening. Why? And how can I fix this?

I have all of my songs on an external hard drive. It was working fine with iTunes; now when I click on a song, I get an error message that the song cannot be located. What happended and more importantly, how can I fix this?

Is this an iPad issue? Not sure where you are "clicking" or how you are accessing. A little more info would help.

My PowerBook g4 no longer boots up mouse pointer just keeps spinning, I was getting a message to delete some files as start up disk is nearly full. Would like to reformat mac and reload wanted applications/files

My G4 power book no longer boots up mouse pointer just keeps spinning. I was getting a message the disks pace is nearly full, can only force quit by holding the power button

For the spinning wheel on startup: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
Free up hard drive space: http://thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

My mac book pro start up disk is full how do I fix this ?

My start up disk is full what do I do to fix this?

Remove files.
Get an external drive and off load the files you want to keep but archive. Then delete those files from your Mac. You should try to keep at least 15% free space on your hard drive least you will trash it. Without your being specific with more details that's as general as it gets.

Macbook Pro, bought 2012, takes a very long time to start up/restart (5 mins). How do I fix this?

My Macbook Pro, bought 2012, takes a very long time to start up/restart (5 mins) every single time I have shut it down. I try not to shut it down at all now because once or twice, I have got a grey screen, and then nothing. I've held down the power button to shut down again and restart How do I fix all this?

Start up with your built-in Recovery disk by holding down the Command and R keys when starting. Open Disk Utility from there and use it to REPAIR your disk (you've already verified it and it came up with errors).
With any luck, your problems will be solved. While I was there, I would also repair permissions.
Good luck,
Clinton

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My start up disk is full how do i fix this problem

i moved alot of stuff to an external hard drive and still is full

thanks i did that but only have 37 gb i dont know any more files i can get rid of because i dont wanna get rid of important stuff built for the mac and mess it up but i should have way more gb then that any other suggestions

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

How do handle this? Thank you.

Help here > Freeing Up Hard Disk Space - Mac Guides

Mac Pro starts up and then shuts down, how do I fix this?

Recently when I start up my Mac Pro it start its process and then I see the Apple Logo and then the screen goes black and the monitor says I think something like no digital signal. I have to start up my Mac Pro a number of times before it finally stays open. Because I use to see a bright flash when the Mac Pro would start up or shut down, I thought that may be the problem had to do with my monitor but I'm not sure. I tried disk utilities and Tech Tools Pro 6 but nothing so far has helped the problem. I don't think its my harddrive since all test say its OK. Then I remembered some says something that computers have an internal battery and that they need to be replaced from time to time. I don't know if my Mac Pro has a battery but does anyone know if this would cause my problem?

There is a pram battery but I don't think that's the cause of your problem.
Have you blown all the accumulated dust out of your machine?
Try reseating the video card, maybe the ram too.
Run Apple Hardware Test (boot from your second installer DVD, push D down immediatly after the boot chime).

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Contact your service provider.
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