What does it mean start up disk need space

keeps popping up start disk need to free space what does that mean ?

It very likely means your hard drive is running out of room. Click on the Macintosh HD icon on your desktop and click cmd-I to open an information window. That will tell you how much room is used and available. If it's very low (eg under 1GB) you will need to move some files off the drive. Look in your Downloads folder for files you can trash; empty your Trash too. If you have a lot of movies, those will take up the most room, followed by pictures and music. There are tools which will tell you where your large files and folders are - search for Omnidisksweeper, Whatsize and Daisydisk.
Matt

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