Recent change to Lion (and I'm still fairly new to Mac)
All,
I am experiencing something on my Macbook Pro since installing Lion and I am not sure how to repair it. I have 320 gb of HD space and something labeled "other" is using up 250gb of my hard drive and it won't allow me to even perform software upgrades because it says I don't have enough disk space. Secondly, it is saying my startup disk if full. Not being a Mac person until recently, I am uncertain of my next steps.
I suppose I will have to save everything to an external hard drive and then erase the disk, but that is something I've never done before.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thanks!
Yet another example of why it's a VERY BAD IDEA to do a clean install of Lion unless you are already VERY familiar with how to tweak the Mac OS. There's a reason Apple engineers removed it as an option. To accomplish it you have to erase your disk; not for the faint hearted.
Do you have a backup? PLEASE don't tell us you did this without a robust backup.
You erased the operating machine, so your computer went to the only place it could find one, the Recovery partition. And it's minimal, so it has to download everything in small chunks to reinstall itself. So yeah, it could take 10 hours.
Here's another option. Do you still have the original disks that came with your machine? Put one in and restart from it. You can reinstall your old system much faster. Then go to the Mac App Store and your purchase history and see if you can redownload Lion (I think that still works).
And this time just do yourself a favor and install per Apple's instructions. When the machine starts into Lion, use Setup ***'t (the first thing that fires up) to migrate from your backup.
Rob
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