My start-up file is full and I don't know how to clean it.

I need to clean out my start-up file but don't know where to go to do this.... help

See this FAQ on cleaning up your startup drive.

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Ikeep getting a message that my start up disc is full and i don't know how to free up space.. also when i o to download some files i am told there is no space left to download i bought this macbook pro used an receiver no discs.. what can i do?? t

ikeep getting a message that my start up disc is full and i don't know how to free up space.. also when i o to download some files i am told there is no space left to download i bought this macbook pro used an receiver no discs.. what can i do??

You need to purchase an external drive and start moving some files to it or you can try trashing some files that you no longer need.
Download OmniDiskSweeper and see where your larger files are... you can move them to an external drive or trash them: it's up to you.
I would also begin, since it's obviously don't have backups, a backup scheme or two. See Most commonly used backup methods.
Good luck,
Clinton

Start up disk full and I don't know how to look at what is filling it up

Hi, I have 2 questions.
My start up disk is full and I deleted a whole bunch of stuff and it didn't help. How can I see what is taking up all the space? I only have stuff in Documents (nothing in pictures, movies, desktop) and it isn't alot of stuff. I have lots of applications but I assume that has nothing to do with the start up disk.
Second question. Can I use a generic cable to connect my laptop to my Apple Studio monitor or do I need the apple one?

Hi
First, and forgive me if it's obvious, but empty the trash.
Second, if you have some space left (ie, not literally 0 MB!), download and install OmniDiskSweeper. It will scan your drive and tell you where the large files are. The Applications folder is indeed part of the startup disk, so you could be taking up room there, but it's likelier to be either forgotten user files or possibly abnormally large log files resulting from a system problem.
If you have either GarageBand or iDVD, and don't use them, you can delete their large support files (themes for iDVD, audio loops for GarageBand). The GarageBand files are in /Library/Application Support/GarageBand (about 2GB), and the iDVD files are in /Library/Application Support/iDVD (about 1GB).
Matt
Matt

My iMac hard drive is full, and I don't know how to fix it.

My iMac hard drive is full. Approximately 495GB of "Other" is crushing it. I saw some threads online refer to this issue ... something to do with ASL files. Can anyone help?

First try to download OmniDiskSweeper then launch that to sweep the drive this will give you information on the size of your files and folders. This will give you a starting point as to what to do with your large files you can move them to an external hard drive or delete them within the program. Note: Be careful of the items you delete.

My computer is full and I don't know how to get rid of stuff

My computer keeps telling me its full. I try to remove docs and pics and stuff but it still keeps telling me its full. It doesn't seem like I am able to delete my docs either? I'm not sure if i"m doing it right????

Have you emptied your trash?

My flash memmory is full and i don't know how it is gone like this.

Dears,
i have a problem with my AS5400 flash... i didn't install a lot of files at flash.
But when i do dir flash command no free space is available to install new IOS image.
VoiceGateway#dir flash:
Directory of flash:/
2 -rw- 17017 Jan 01 2000 00:47:00 +00:00 strat
3 -rw- 17027 Jan 01 2000 00:12:27 +00:00 no
7 -rw- 14245516 Jan 01 2000 00:05:24 +00:00 c5400-is-mz.123-10f.bin
36 -rw- 7575 Jan 01 2000 00:31:01 +00:00 app_clid_authen_col_npw_cl
i.2.0.0.tcl
37 -rw- 20676 Jan 01 2000 00:31:28 +00:00 auth_failed.au
38 -rw- 23660 Jan 01 2000 00:31:41 +00:00 enter_account.au
39 -rw- 19512 Jan 01 2000 00:31:55 +00:00 enter_destination.au
40 -rw- 49520 Jan 01 2000 00:32:14 +00:00 auth_fail_retry.au
41 -rw- 30272 Jan 01 2000 00:32:28 +00:00 enter_card_number.au
42 -rw- 24164 Jan 01 2000 00:32:44 +00:00 enter_pin.au
43 -rw- 11020 Jan 01 2000 00:32:55 +00:00 out_of_time.au
65536000 bytes total (4903056 bytes free)
i need to know where is my free space gone... any help?

Dears,
this all my files system exist at my AS5400:
VoiceGateway#dir all-filesystems
Directory of system:/
5 dr-x 0 memory
1 -rw- 11322 running-config
2 dr-x 0 ucode
16 dr-x 0 vfiles
No space information available
Directory of nvram:/
496 -rw- 10907 startup-config
497 ---- 27 private-config
1 -rw- 0 ifIndex-table
2 ---- 13 persistent-data
520184 bytes total (507150 bytes free)
Directory of flash:/
2 -rw- 17017 Jan 01 2000 00:47:00 +00:00 strat
3 -rw- 17027 Jan 01 2000 00:12:27 +00:00 no
7 -rw- 14245516 Jan 01 2000 00:05:24 +00:00 c5400-is-mz.123-10f.bin
36 -rw- 7575 Jan 01 2000 00:31:01 +00:00 app_clid_authen_col_npw_cl
i.2.0.0.tcl
37 -rw- 20676 Jan 01 2000 00:31:28 +00:00 auth_failed.au
38 -rw- 23660 Jan 01 2000 00:31:41 +00:00 enter_account.au
39 -rw- 19512 Jan 01 2000 00:31:55 +00:00 enter_destination.au
40 -rw- 49520 Jan 01 2000 00:32:14 +00:00 auth_fail_retry.au
41 -rw- 30272 Jan 01 2000 00:32:28 +00:00 enter_card_number.au
42 -rw- 24164 Jan 01 2000 00:32:44 +00:00 enter_pin.au
43 -rw- 11020 Jan 01 2000 00:32:55 +00:00 out_of_time.au
65536000 bytes total (4903056 bytes free)
Directory of bootflash:/
1 -rw- 2320028 Jan 01 2000 00:07:30 +00:00 c5400-boot-mz.122-2.XB2
15204352 bytes total (12884196 bytes free)
VoiceGateway#

My startup disk is full, I need to clean it up, and I don't know how to even find it!

My startup disk is full, I need to clean it up, and I don't know how to even find it!

Don't mess with anything you don't recognize. The system is generally not the reason for lack of free space.
Best candidates are your files which are located in the folder with the little house for an icon in Finder. Of your own files the one most likely to take the largest amount disk space are music, movies, video and photos. Any of those can be deleted or move to external storage.
Allan

Why does my Imac screen slide and I lose my screen? It goes back to my desktop. Then sometimes my screen goes to full screen and I don't know how to get out of it.

Why does my Imac screen slide and I lose my screen ~ It goes back to my desktop.
Then sometimes my screen goes to full screen without me doing any commands, and I don't know how to get out of it without going to force quit and starting all over.

Hi,
When it goes full screen try moving the mouse up to top right of scren & see if there a double diagonal Arrow to click on.
On the other see if it's the silly implentation of Spaces/Mission Control/Expose in ML...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4298411?start=0&tstart=0

When I open a pdf file, after a few seconds, it hides the toolbar and I don't know how to get it back. I use multiple monitors and, without being able to grab the toolbar, I am unable to move the pdf file to a different monitor. How do I stop this?

When I open a pdf file, after a few seconds, it hides the toolbar and I don't know how to get it back. I use multiple monitors and, without being able to grab the toolbar, I am unable to move the pdf file to a different monitor. How do I stop this?

Does Firefox switch to full screen if you press F11 ?
You can also try the F10 key to see if that brings up the menu bar.
* If the above steps didn't help then see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Corrupt_localstore.rdf
Note: Do not delete localstore.rdf in the program folder (Windows: "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\defaults\profile\") (Mac: "/Applications/Firefox.app/defaults/profile/")

I have a MacBook Pro, I want to copy Itunes files to an SD card to play in my car, the SD Card doesn't appear in Itunes when I insert it, and I don't know how to convert the files to the correct format, can anyone help?

I have a MacBook Pro, I want to copy Itunes files to an SD card to play in my car, the SD Card doesn't appear in Itunes when I insert it, and I don't know how to convert the files to the correct format, can anyone help?
Thank you

So it seems from reading the COMMAND manual that my first issue is that I used a 16GB SD card, and the manual says it will only recogize up to a 2GB SD card. I did use my MB Air's SD card slot and crated a folder and dragged the music files to it, then to the card. So I am going to get a 2GB card and try that next. Otherwise just stick with the iPOD connected. At least that is 8GB

I recently thought I was updating my Safari browser. When completed, I put all those little files that were on the desktop into the trash. Now my trash is saying it can't be emptied because there are locked files and I don't know how to unlock them

I recently thought I was updating my Safari browser. When completed, I put all those little files that were on the desktop into the trash. Now my trash is saying it can't be emptied because there are locked files and I don't know how to unlock them or get them out of my trash and they keep multiplying. And to make matters worse, I tried renaming them as pdf files thinking that might do the trick.

oh boy ! I'd ask you if you knew what kind of files they were or where they came from, but I don't think you could help me a bunch. Try going to the Utilities folder and running Disk Utilities. If you want to empty the Trash and it won't empty, go to the finder and choose "secure Empty trash". Worse case scenario-you may have to reinstall Snow Leopard, but I don't know what else to suggest. If you have a DVD of Snow Leopard, boot up from that, and reinstall the OS. This will not touch the stuff you have on your Hard Drive, then you can update from 10.6 to 10.6.8, otherwise Onyx? Maybe those files are part of the OS which needs them to keep running. if you hold down the Shift key on reboot, you can reboot in Safe mode and maybe you can take the files out of the trash that way
good luck
John B

I am having an installation failure issue with my itunes 11 software. File is corrupted and i don't know what to do. I've un-install and re-installed the software three times and continue to get the same error message. It states that "This copy of ITun

I am having an installation failure issue with my itunes 11 software. File is corrupted and i don't know what to do. I've un-install and re-installed the software three times and continue to get the same error message. It states that "This copy of ITunes is corrupted or is not installed correctly. Please reinstall Itunes"
iMac, iOS 6

HI,
If your old version of iTunes is still working - then I sugest you stick with that.
iTunes 11 is a lousy update - It will not retain your playlists, you can't find and delete duplicates... and a whole arry of oyher issues. (have a look around this forum to see how many issues IT11 gives people)
Just a friendly advise and warning :-)

I am just starting out in graphic design and I wanted to know how to get more involved with either adobe and or graphic design? I am really very interested in working with adobe and graphic design more and becoming more involved with both!!

I am just starting out in graphic design and I wanted to know how to get more involved with either adobe and or graphic design? I am really very interested in working with adobe and graphic design more and becoming more involved with both!!

I have now recently downloaded 10.0.2 which is confusing in itself, as, as far as I can ascertain that is actually version 11, but I'm not even sure about that.
Version 10.0.2 is the newest version and the successor to GarageBand '11 (version 6.0.5).
The '11 is referring to the iLife '11 suit of multimedia application - the older GarageBand was a part of this bundle.
Have a look at Edgar's graphical enhanced manuals, the explain very detailed how things work and why. You can buy them as iBooks from the iBook store or directly from the page:
http://DingDingMusic.com/Manuals/

SVM with QFS and a don´t know how growing a File Systems

Hello Experts
Please, Could some help me. I have a SVM with QFS and a don´t know how growing a File Systems in this configuration.
can someone help me or share me a doc that would help me to do it?
Thanks a Lot
Joao Paulo ( email address removed by moderator so that you don't get spammed for all Eternity )

I'm guessing that you mean a QFS file system built using SVM volumes? You want to grow a filesystem on these volumes?
- How to grow the volumes depends on how they're built; this would require seeing either the command that built them or metastat -c for them. You have to expand each column of the volume equally if it is a striped volume type.
- To extend the file system, you need to stop using it, edit the MCF properly to add the next extents, and then extend the file system. See the samgrowfs man page for details.
I realize this isn't a definitive answer, but it's not possible to give you one without seeing the metastat output and the QFS MCF file.

I forgot my iPad passcode, it has a different apple id than my laptop and I don't know how to restore it.

I forgot my iPad passcode, it has a different apple id than my laptop and I don't know how to restore it. i don't want to lose my pictures.

If the iPad was running iOS 7, iCloud: Find My iPhone Activation Lock in iOS 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/ipad/ipad-troubleshooting-repair-faq/ipad- how-to-unlock-open-forgot-code-passcode-password-login.html
iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1212
How can I unlock my iPad if I forgot the passcode?
http://tinyurl.com/7ndy8tb
How to Reset a Forgotten Password for an iOS Device
http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-a-Forgotten-Password-for-an-iOS-Device
Using iPhone/iPad Recovery Mode
http://ipod.about.com/od/iphonetroubleshooting/a/Iphone-Recovery-Mode.htm
Saw this solution on another post about an iPad in a school environment. Might work on your iPad so you won't lose everything.
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‘iPad is disabled’ fix without resetting using iTunes
Today I met my match with an iPad that had a passcode entered too many times, resulting in it displaying the message ‘iPad is disabled – Connect to iTunes’. This was a student iPad and since they use Notability for most of their work there was a chance that her files were not all backed up to the cloud. I really wanted to just re-activate the iPad instead of totally resetting it back to our default image.
I reached out to my PLN on Twitter and had some help from a few people through retweets and a couple of clarification tweets. I love that so many are willing to help out so quickly. Through this I also learned that I look like Lt. Riker from Star Trek (thanks @FillineMachine).
Through some trial and error (and a little sheer luck), I was able to reactivate the iPad without loosing any data. Note, this will only work on the computer it last synced with. Here’s how:
1. Configurator is useless in reactivating a locked iPad. You will only be able to completely reformat the iPad using Configurator. If that’s ok with you, go for it – otherwise don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
2. Open iTunes with the iPad disconnected.
3. Connect the iPad to the computer and wait for it to show up in the devices section in iTunes.
4. Click on the iPad name when it appears and you will be given the option to restore a backup or setup as a new iPad (since it is locked).
5. Click ‘Setup as new iPad’ and then click restore.
6. The iPad will start backing up before it does the full restore and sync. CANCEL THE BACKUP IMMEDIATELY. You do this by clicking the small x in the status window in iTunes.
7. When the backup cancels, it immediately starts syncing – cancel this as well using the same small x in the iTunes status window.
8. The first stage in the restore process unlocks the iPad, you are basically just cancelling out the restore process as soon as it reactivates the iPad.
If done correctly, you will experience no data loss and the result will be a reactivated iPad. I have now tried this with about 5 iPads that were locked identically by students and each time it worked like a charm.
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Try it and good luck. You have nothing more to lose if it doesn't work for you.
 Cheers, Tom

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