Newly installed snow leopard 10.6.6 says startup disc is full - help please
A month ago, I installed snow leopard 10.6.6 to my MacBook Pro. Today, when I tried to do software updates, I got a message that says my start up disc is full and it can't install them.
My hardrive has only 856 mg remaining out of 249.72 capacity so it is, indeed, full!
I have deleted any and all files I no longer use and have moved others to an external hard drive.
I ran disc utility and the HD was verified as all okay
I restarted with shift key
I cleaned out my iMail boxes.
And, I cannot find anything on the internet about how to free up space on my start up disc.
What have I not done that I am missing? Oh, I also upgraded to iLife '11 at the same time. Is it possible that I have two sets of something that needs to be trashed because it is taking up an exorbitant amount of space?
Any help anyone can give me about clearing space on my start up disc would be most appreciated.
Thank you in advance,
Glenn
Old Accounts would usually show up in the System Preferences/Accounts window. I don't know if you've ever done an Archive and Install, but it could leave some files from older installions on your drive.
Without knowing how many systems you've installed or upgraded from, it's hard to say what might have been left around on your system.
I'd run one of the programs and see if there are any large folder duplicates or anything else that might be laying around.
You haven't said how much space you expect to find... In other words, how large is your music library, photo library, documents folder, etc?
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