Out of hard drive space on my Apple TV

Any suggestions on how to expand without buying a new unit? I've been syncing instead of streaming since my network computer is a bit unstable - or my network connection (wireless) is unstable - and the streaming freezes up on me.

I stream 100% of my content and have gone through some wireless troubleshooting and optimization.
Best things for me:
Computer, router, and AppleTV are all on 802.11n
I started playing with the different channels on the router, found channel 1 worked best for me.
These things worked best for me...I know its not a huge rocket-scientist answer...but they're things I have to make it as quick as possible.

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Running out of hard drive space---can I use my external hard drive-??

I have a 16GB iPod nano. I hope I can explain my problem well enough.
My laptop computer has the iTunes that I use for syncing my iPod. It has over 25gb of songs in it, but my problem is that it has completely run out of hard drive space, and I don't think I can delete anything else.
I have a 250 GB external hard drive that also has all my songs backed up on it, that has hard drive space left on it.
Is there a way to load new music into the external hard drive, that will sync up to the iPod when I connect it to the laptop, WITHOUT putting a copy of it into the laptop, and taking up space-?
The way it appears to me, and I may be wrong, is that there are 2 copies of eaxh song on my laptop---the one in my music folder, and then the one in the iTunes folder. Is that correct-?
OR, is there a way to remove some of the songs from the laptop, and put them into the external hard drive, but will still sync up to the iPod-?
Thanks for any help that anyone can offer, I'm desperate ~!
I'm not sure if this can be done, but I'd hate to think that I cannot put new music onto my iPod.
Thanks~!

Hello melbernai,
I think your best move would be to the move the entire iTunes library including of all of its file to your external hard drive and running your iTunes from there. You can even have it so that all newly imported music is saved to the external drive as well.
For more help on how to do this, I would check out this article on how to move and run your iTunes library from an external hard drive.
http://lifehacker.com/238296/ultranewb--how-to-move-your-itunes-library-to-an-ex ternal-drive
Hope this helps.
B-rock

I just ordered a macbook air today and need to know if the 128gb SSD is enough space. I presently have a macbook pro and am using only 30gb hard drive space so, the apple rep said 128 is enough as I do not load much pictures or gaming etc. Also is i5 ok.

I just ordered a macbook air today and need to know if the 128gb SSD is enough space. I presently have a macbook pro and am using only 30gb hard drive space so, the apple rep said 128 is enough as I do not load much pictures or gaming etc. Also is i5 ok.

Id choose the I5 yes, depends on what your usage is going to be,
....your question about "128 gig being enough" begs the question for IDEALIZED USE of your macbook AIr
In the case of a Macbook Air with ‘limited’ storage on the SSD, this distinction becomes more important in that in an ever rapidly increasing file-size world, you keep vital large media files, pics, video, PDF collections, music off your SSD and archived on external storage, for sake of the necessary room for your system to have free space to operate, store future applications and general workspace. You should never be put in the position of considering “deleting things” on your macbook SSD in order to ‘make space’.
*Generally, unless you NEED the data at least once every few weeks or once a month,...it really does'nt NEED to be on the SSD of your Macbook Air.
Professionals who create and import very large amounts of data have almost no change in the available space on their computers internal HD because they are constantly archiving data to arrays of external or networked HD.
Or in the case of the consumer this means you keep folders for large imported or created data and you ritually offload and archive this data for safekeeping, not only to safeguard the data in case your macbook has a HD crash, or gets stolen, but importantly in keeping the ‘breathing room’ open for your computer to operate, expand, create files, add applications, for your APPS to create temp files, and for general operation.
Ive got more APPS than any human should have on my 128gig AIR,..(50 or so),....and 10gig of working data, important files etc etc.
Still have 82gig available....... the entire point is that someone shouldnt consider the Air a "storage device" for tons of pics, music, vids, etc.
*Never consider any computer a data storage device at any time under any circumstance, rather a data creation, sending, and manipulation device. Anyone who thinks data is safe on any computer, even copied upon multiple partitions is making a mistake that will, without fail, strike.
For needs of packing around a LOT of "big data" with your Air in its case..., get a nice 1TB HD for $70, or even a 2TB drive not much bigger.
Perfect 2TB HD, very slim, the "little giant" made by Toshiba (have several of these) $119
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Connect-Portable-HDTC720XK3C1/dp/B00CGUMS48 /ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379182740&sr=1-4&keywords=2tb+toshiba
*This one is the BEST external HD available that money can buy:
$75
HGST Touro Mobile 1TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
http://www.amazon.com/HGST-Touro-Mobile-External-HTOLMX3NA10001ABB/dp/B0062FZ2WS /ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1379185002&sr=1-1&keywords=hitachi+extern a l+hard+drive

I am running out of hard drive space so I clear 32GB of space at midnight, went to bed. When I wokle up I had no space left even though I had not used the computer, the system.lg is FULL of stuff and I have no HD space anymore? What's eating it up?

I am running out of hard drive space so I clear 32GB of space at midnight and went to bed.
When I wokle up I had no space left even though I had not used the computer, the system.lg is FULL of stuff and I have no HD space anymore?
What's eating it up?

WORD TO THE WISE
the OmniDiskSweeper was a very helpful download, because it laid out the HD and all the files on it in a "largest to smallest" fashion. When I did this I found that I had an inordinate amount of memory being taken up in my Mail Data folder, this did not make much sense so when I dug deeper I found that a 59MB scanned file that I had emailed 3 weeks ago had not been delivered, so the computer was retrying every minute and saving the history of what it was doing, so it was saving the 59MB file as well as the log about the 59MB file and hence for the last 3 weeks it's been chewing away at HD space recording the activity of the undeliverable file.
I deleted the Data record folders and removed the yahoo account from My Mail and reinstalled it with proper IMAP information and the HD is secure and holding at 331GB of free space. Like it ought to be.
I love the fact that if something very strange is happpening on your MAC there is a REASON....find it and fix it, and move on. In the PC world you would reboot 20 times, call some guy in India who will ony try to sell you a new subscription or warranty for $99 and never solve anything.
I am at rest once more, thanks for the tip

I'm running out of hard drive space

I’m running out of hard drive space, therefore, I need to upgrade. What is my best option for a hard drive upgrade? My current Macbookpro (purchased 2009) hard drive is 500gb, 7200rpm. I need the best possible upgrade available. Please advise.
Other specs are:
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

How about moving some of the data to an external drive?
By the way - have you backed up your internal drive using a backup scheme?
- if not, check out using TimeMachine.
If you have backed up your drive, keep in mind that the backup has all the files that are on the internal drive, so, one way to free up space is to remove files that you don't want to lose, but don't really need them available at all times... Just make sure you know how to restore data from the backup!

Ran out of hard drive space while importing AVCHD footage... cant delete?

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Run out of Hard Drive space using Premiere Cs5- Can I save my work, buy and new hard drive?

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Run out of hard drive space!

Hi
I have recentley run out of hard drive space on my macbook pro, largely due to the fact i have just installed 90gb worth of production software and samples. I also have a 1tb external hard drive. Was just wondering, if i move files such as samples, music and photos from macintosh HD to my external hard drive, will they still run on programs as usual as long as the external hard drive is plugged in?
Thanks

That's depending on the production software you use.
Most of them to install/copy samples etc. to another harddisk than the one where the software is installed as long as you "tell" them where to find the files.
Check the documentation of your software if and how...
Stefan

HT4527 How can I relocate my music so it lives outside my computer in a hard drive? I'm running out of hard drive space.

How can I relocate my music so it lives outside my computer in a hard drive? I'm running out of hard drive space.

The referenced article does not address the issue of just moving the music files outside my iMac, then still use my iMac and iTunes to manipulate those files without them adding bulk memory space to my iMac. Would like to have the link or alias, or path fully described so that I may keep adding more music. Plus one more thing, I would like to be guided as to how to back all of this music onto my capsule via time machine.

What are your options when you run out of hard drive space?

What are your options when you run out of hard drive space?

I 110% agree, it is a disaster but it saves your mac until you recieve an external HD.
Csound1 wrote:
XcodeDeveloper wrote:
I know but he just wanted options so I gave him one that helped me. If he filled up his HD a Gigabyte is sometimes a small miracle, exaggeration on small .
OSX with 1G of free space is a disaster waiting to happen.
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Keep running out of hard drive space

i keep getting a message saying i'm low on space. i trash many things then i have 10 gigs available or something. the next day, having added nothing, i get the message again and it's down to very low. any thoughts? thanks

Which OS version is installed on your computer. Your system profile is a complete blank! If you are still using Tiger, check out the Article: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305454 Mac OS X 10.4: FileVault - "There isn't enough space on your hard disk..." alert. Article pertain to you?
Where did my Disk Space go?
Hard Drive Space Resources:
Slimming your hard drive
Seven ways to free up drive space
OmniDiskSweeper is a free utility that checks HD space.
FreeSpace cost $1 or is a free utility that checks HD space.
SpaceControl is a free utility that checks HD space.
FreeSpace cost $.99 - FreeSpace shows you how much space is available on all local, connected, and network drives with a single click.
Rule of thumb: You should never let your hard drive get to where you have only 10-15% of space left.

I've run out of Hard Drive space (photos, music, email)

Hello, I have a 2009 230GB 13" macbook pro and I'm down to 400MB left of free hard drive space!
I've got about 120 GBs allocated to photos (High res/movies taken with my DSLR)
80GBs allocated to iTunes music/podcasts.
and and the rest allocated to MacMail files/random applications.
My questions are these
1) What is the best way to transfer these files to a back up drive while also keeping them accessible. I don't want to delete half my photo album after transfering it and then build upon it on my laptop again. That seems like a recipe for disorganization. Same with iTunes.
2) how much memory shoudl I keep free at all times?
Thank you for your time. . .
Allison

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
See how to clean up you hard disk here*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
Next get an external Firewire hard disk case with SATA 2.5" support, and move the hard drive into that case. http://www.macsales.com/ has several that have their own wall power supply, and get a larger 2.5" hard drive supprorted by your MacBook Pro (Determine if you might need 1.5 Gbps or higher support from http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3561/ and then note that 17" support all hard drive heights, where 15" only do 9.5mm unless they are "Unibody", in which case they support the 12.5mm drives as well).
Use Carbon Copy Cloner, or Superduper to copy to the new hard drive from the old.
Finally replace the old external small drive with another supported 2.5" drive so you have a means to clone your MacBook Pro.

I have a desktop pc with iTunes. I just purchased a mac air book. Can I sync all of my devices, iPhone, iPod, iPad, to both computers or do I have to pick one. I would like to have iTunes on my mac, but I'm afraid I will run out of hard drive space.

I have a desktop pc with itunes. I just purchased a Mac Air book. Can I sync my devices, iphone, ipod, ipad, to both computers. Or do I have to pick one? I would like to have itunes on my mac, but i am afraid I will run out of hard disk space. Do I need to set up a seperate account on my Mac so I can load some music on it if I plan to keep my devices synced to my PC? Would it be possible to sync only my Iphone to my Mac?

To get that much storage, you need to look to professional online services. Pro-level hosting accounts may offer you that much (well, many will offer as much storage as you are prepared to pay for), or Amazon professional cloud services. You could also store the files on a home machine and pay for a professional hosting service so you could stream them over your own account (assuming your ISP connection and agreement allows for the bandwidth used). You would still need to deal with the issue of finding an app for the iPad that supported avi streaming.

Running out of hard drive space.

Hi all,
I've gone from Blu ray to iTunes HD download which has free at the front room cabinet space only to fill up my MacBook Pro hard drive space.
So is there a exturnal hard drive solution that I can store all my films on?
Also can I brun my Blu ray's that are not triple play to Mac? (Mac has no Blu Ray drive)
Many thanks
Matt

itunes yes iphoto i don't know
to do this in itunes:
first open macintosh HD
then go to users and select your name
then copy the folder labeled music to the external drive
then open itunes
click itunes then preferences
click advanced then click change
and locate the folder labeled itunes music on the external drive
then click choose the click ok
and now check to see if it worked

Out of Hard Drive space with Mavericks

This new library system with Mavericks and FC 10.1.3 is confusing. I end up with too many events that take up hard drive space.
Question. Can I load FCPx on a separate, external 3 terabyte drive and work from that? Would that solve my drive space issue on my iMac HD?
What would be the step by step process to do that or, a better idea?
Thanks a pile. I have HD constipation!
G

Your application must be in the Applications folder, but your libraries can and indeed *should* be in an external drive. They can be stored anywhere, no need to put them in special designated folders as before.
The library system actually makes managing your stuff extremely easy. A library is a single document, so you can simply move it in the Finder (when FCP X is not running).
You can have as many or as few libraries as you want, copy them, move them, etc. You don't have to have everything active at once in FCP X. Open and close libraries as needed (whereas before, all events on a given drive were loaded, you can now just open a single library in a disk containing dozens of them).
Take the time to familiarize with the library concept and you'll find that it is much better than what we had before.

Out of hard drive space on my Apple TV

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