Startub disk is full?! I dont get it...
Hi everyone!!
I've had my macbook 10.4.11. for about 2 years. I have a 1 GB 667 MHz or something memory. I've been trying to download music to my itunes folder but it says "the startup disk is full," and I've tried to update my software programs but my "startup disk is full." I dont get what my startup disk is or why its full. Is there any way I could get more memory on my computer? If anyone could help, that would be great.
Thank you.
Tamara~
Tamara, welcome to Apple Discussions.
Your startup disk is your hard drive. What size hard drive do you have? You should keep 10%-15% free. You probably have less that 5% free. Hard drive space is not "memory". Memory is RAM size.
Look at these links.
Where did my disk space go?
http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243
Download & use WhatSize described in this link or Disk Inventory X @ http://www.derlien.com/
Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
Amazing Disappearing Drive Space
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html
Increase HD Free Space
http://macosx.com/forums/howto-faqs/275191-how-easily-increase-hd-free-space-lap top.html
How to free up my disk space
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
Cheers, Tom
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