Photo, hard drive, memory space

to free space on my mac bbok i want to send my photos to the cloud or a hard drive and , still be able to see them in iphoto (Updated)

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    Hey guys, so I have a MacBook that is running IOS X 10.6.8 and is a 2006. I have been wondering how to check your hard drive space since I bought it on Craigslist. I just want to verify how much space this thing has. And also, since i'm 15 i'm looking to save some moey on a new battery and was wodering if anyone can guide me through buying a new one on eBay. Thanks!!

    To see how much room you have on your hard drive right click (Control key + Click) and select Get Info from the drop down menu.and check Available.
    If you have an Early 2006 White or Black plastic MacBook with the removable battery you can get a new third party battery fairly cheap on eBay. Every MacBook from 2006 through Mid 2009 except the Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody use the same battery.
    Black Batteries http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=macbook+black+battery&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=12   &_dmpt=Laptop_Batteries&_odkw=macbook+white+battery&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0. m 270.l1313
    White Batteries http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=macbook+white+battery&_sacat=0&LH_BIN=1&_sop=12   &_dmpt=Laptop_Batteries&_odkw=macbook+black+battery&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0. m 270.l1313
    Or for $129 from The Apple Store  http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA566LL/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY

  • Does iCloud drive use up hard drive storage space?

    HI,
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    I thought the entire point of iCloud was to use cloud storage and not offline storage; unless you download it from the cloud to your hard drive. Why am I losing hard drive space?
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    Hi FlyFalcon,
    I am writing to say that I am having the problem you are worried about. I have a 121 GB MacBook with flash storage, and I am running out of room.
    This is my work computer so I don't have any personal photos/music/movies stored on here. My iCloud drive has over 100 GB on it and it's driving this computer nuts! I am constantly getting the "your startup disk is full" message. As you can see from the screen shot below, it's saying I have 58.61 GB of photos on this computer, 25.84GB of movies etc...but all these files live on my personal MacBook at home.
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  • Hard drive free space discrepancy

    I have an 11 inch Macbook Air with a 120GB SSD and I am running OS X Lion 10.7.5.
    Every so often I get messages indicating my hard drive is nearly full. Since it is a small hard drive I never thought much of it and just deleted a movie or two I put on it for when I travel. But lately I realized that I keep all my music, photos, and bulk of my movie files on an external drive, so there really isn’t much on my computer.
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    Use a tool like OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 to find what's on the disk, where, and how large.
    Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
      1. See Lion's Storage Display.
      2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
      3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
      4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
      5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
      6. 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.

  • What happened to my Hard drive memory?

    I have iMac,24", early 2008, with 400GB memory. Up untill recently, about 90 GB was available out of 400. Now since the computer is slow, I was surprised to find only 20 GB is left. I can not account for loss of this memory. Is there any way to find what is taking all that memory and what can be done to recover. Thank you

    You are confusing hard drive storage space with RAM (Random Access Memory).
    You have 20 GBs of hard drive storage space left.
    What year, screen size, CPU speed and amount of RAM installed?
    How many applications do you run simultaneously in the background while working in another application?
    Do you run any antivirus software on your Mac? Antivirus software can slow down the normal operation of OS X.
    Do you run any "crapware" like Mackeeper or any other type of "crapware" like so called hard drive "cleaning" apps?
    Hard Drive full or near full?
    Follow some of my tips for cleaning out, deleting and archiving data from your Mac's internal hard drive.
    Have you emptied your iMac's Trash icon in the Dock?
    If you use iPhoto, iPhoto has its own trash that needs to be emptied, also.
    If you use Apple Mail app, Apple Mail also has its own trash area that needs to be emptied, too!
    Other things you can do to gain space.
    Delete any old or no longer needed emails and/or archive older emails you want to save.
    Look through your Documents folder and delete any type of old useless type files like "Read Me" type files.
    Again, archive or delete any old documents you no longer use or immediately need.
    Download an app called OnyX for your version of OS X.
    When you install and launch it, let it do its thing initially, then go to the cleaning and maintenance tabs and run all of the processes in the tabs. Let OnyX clean out all web browser cache files, web browser histories, system cache files, delete old error log files.
    Typically, iTunes and iPhoto libraries are the biggest users of HD space.
    You may have to Purchase an external FireWire or Thunderbolt hard drive to move these files/data off of your internal drive to the external hard drive and deleted off of the internal hard drive.
    If you have any other large folders of personal data or projects, these should be moved, also, to the external hard drive and then either archived to disc and/or deleted off your internal hard drive.
    Good Luck!

  • Can I add hard drive memory to my MacBook Pro (13" with retina display)?

    I know I can use an external hard drive, but is there some way to add hard drive memory (either myself or taking it to an Apple store)?

    OWC does offer internal storage upgrades which, depending upon the vintage of your MBP, may or may not be applicable:
    http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/Air-Retina/Apple-MacBook-Pro-Retina-2012- Drive-Internal-Flash
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  • Hard drive & Memory in the UK

    Does anyone know where i can buy a Hard drive & Memory in the UK ???
    Like OWC, Crucial ....
    I found the crucial website but nothing for Macbook, not even Macbook pro :
    http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listProductLine.asp?cat=RAM&mfr=Apple&submit=Go

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    http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/k.asp
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  • HT1338 increase my hard drive memory

    how can I increase my hard drive memory?

    You plug in an external drive, or remove the internal one and install a higher capacity drive.
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  • Deleting Photos from iPhoto doesn't return hard drive memory

    Hi,
    I need more room on my hard drive. I have needed to pare down my photos for awhile, so I got information on my iPhoto library which was about 40gb and had about 12,500 photos. I spent hours deleting about 2500 photos and movies last night to try to recover hard drive space. I removed them by selecting move to trash or just hitting the delete key. The photos were removed from my libraries, but no memory was recovered (none of the photos ended up in the trash). I then restarted the program and computer to see if that helped to no avail. Any idea why the hard drive space is not recovered?

    To remove photos you need to me in Library view - either Photos or Events - and when you hit delete the pics will go to the iPhoto trash. Then you have to empty the iPhoto Trash (that's in the iPhoto menu).
    Tapping delete from an Album only removes the pics from that Album.
    iPhoto has been known to be temperamental when deleting large numbers of files. Best to empty the trash every 100 images or so.
    If space is an issue, you know you can move your Library to an external HD formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?
    1. Quit iPhoto
    2. Copy the iPhoto Library from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
    3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
    4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
    Regards
    TD

  • Internal Hard Drive Free Space Issue

    Hey,
    I recently upgraded my 17" MacBook Pro from Tiger to Snow Leopard but the upgrade seems to have created a number of problems, the most notable being the lack of free space now available on my internal hard drive.
    I also had to install a trial version of Aperture 3.0.3 in order to access my aperture library as the older version of Aperture is not compatible with Snow Leopard.
    At this point the free space available on my internal hard drive was 36GB and my aperture library was 39GB. I had to uninstall Photoshop Elements 9 in order to create enough free space to open this library.
    I bought an external hard drive and after some organising (importing and exporting to and from external hard drive), I eventually moved all photo files/folders, projects and libraries onto this external drive, leaving only one in-progress project (about 3GB) left on the internal volume.
    I also exported my iTunes library and any other files to this external drive.
    All trashes have been emptied.
    The problem is that, despite all this clear-out, I now only have 2GB of free space on the internal hard drive.
    I ran Disk Inventory X and it shows that my home folder is using 155GB of space, which seems ridiculous considering there is in effect nothing left on my laptop save for the application programs and the one remaining project.
    I have manually checked through this folder and all its subfolders and have found nothing that would accumulate to this amount of space.
    I have repaired an issue with the internal volume, but it is now showing a “minor” problem with the volume header.
    If someone can provide and explanation/solution to this I would be very grateful as it is severely slowing my workflow at the moment.
    Thanks

    Baresi:
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    Go to Installer menu (Panther and earlier) or Utilities menu (Tiger) and launch Disk Utility.
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    If DU reports errors Repair again and again until DU reports disk is repaired.
    If DU reports errors it cannot repair you will need to use a utility like Tech Tool Pro or Disk Warrior
    I recommend that you make sure that you make a bootable clone of your entire volume using a utility like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner.
    You should also seriously consider installing a larger capacity drive.
    cornelius

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    I am looking for a software tool or app that can show me an overview of my hard drive in terms of memory, which will allow me to clear up space more efficiently and target which files are taking up the most room on my hard drive.

    Both just as uninvasive as they can be - OmniDiskSweeper or Grand Perspective.
    Personally, I prefer OmniDiskSweeper - just don't use any of those maintenance apps.
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  • We are puzzled as to why we are having hard drive memory leakage.  Tends to shrink with usage.Should we replace the hard drive?     rive lea

    According to the get info on the imac hd icon we have used 249.7 out of a possible 250 gb of hardrive.  We have deleted some file, caches, but still face the shrinkage which occurs with usage.  It may rise to 320 MB but with use fall to 10mb.  Is there anything we can do or replace the hard drive?

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    Network & System settings will also be left behind & iTunes will require you to authorise the Mac, but most other things should be fine inside the migrated user account.
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