What to do if my disk space is almost full

I'm a photographer, and I have a lot of large photo files stored in my MacBook Pro. I import them into Adobe LightRoom, and a message keeps appearing after I close down LightRoom saying "Your startup disc is almost full," and that I need to delete files. Can I transfer things onto an ext. HD and delete them? I have to import more and more photos everyday for my job, so I need a longterm solution!

Your solution would be to use a large exernal drive for storage. External drives are commonly used for back-up and storage purposes.
You can directly from your main drive still access your photos from the external drive, if you wish to work on them or print them.

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Hi
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What's taking up my disk space?

I have an iMac with a 500-gig drive. All my photos and videos are on an external drive. According to "info" the internal drive has 384Mb of disk space left! For the life of me I can't find what is taking up all the disk space and it's driving me crazy. Any way to find what directory, or directories are chewing up all the disk space? I have OS X 10.6.8.

no, it works in Snow Leopard. I used Snow Leopard before I installed Lion. Being new to mac, you will find these links helpful: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343, http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/, http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

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Nothing. That warning is separate from Time Machine.
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I have a Mac Book Pro, and I have almost no disk space left. I think I know where the problem is...I take a lot of pictures. But when I load them to iPhoto, it saves them in multiple folders: Original, Modified and Recovered. Can I delete one or more of these folders? The last time I tried something like that, I lost all of my thumbnails in iPhoto, making it useless. I compressed a folder then un-compressed it, and they were all gone. I really don't know what to do here. Can anyone tell me exactly what's going on?

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Running one shows 45Gb used space and the other 81Gb, which of the 2 is right?
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408M          usr
45G          total
29G          Users
15M          mach_kernel
5.8G          private
4.6G          Applications
4.5K          dev
4.1M          bin
4.0K          var
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/dev/disk0s2                       112Gi   81Gi   31Gi    73%    /
devfs                              187Ki 187Ki    0Bi   100%    /dev
map -hosts                           0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /net
map auto_home                        0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%    /home
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The true amount is the higher of the two, in this case.
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Hello all,
I am trying to do something that should be pretty simple. I have an iMac, with Mountain Lion and Server installed. My wife has a Mac Air. The goal was to get her to Time Machine backup through the wifi to my external hardrive. I think it is working, but here is the small catch. Last night, while getting it all going, it was saying "making buckup disk ready" through the night until now. Now it is actually doing the backup normally, i.e. I can see the data transferring. BUT, here is the question, in the mean time the external hardrive lost about 300gb of space which is the size of MY iMac backup. So I hope that when I turned on Time Machine it dosnt back up one time as my computer and another as a server. That may not make any sence at all.
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Hello all,
I am trying to do something that should be pretty simple. I have an iMac, with Mountain Lion and Server installed. My wife has a Mac Air. The goal was to get her to Time Machine backup through the wifi to my external hardrive. I think it is working, but here is the small catch. Last night, while getting it all going, it was saying "making buckup disk ready" through the night until now. Now it is actually doing the backup normally, i.e. I can see the data transferring. BUT, here is the question, in the mean time the external hardrive lost about 300gb of space which is the size of MY iMac backup. So I hope that when I turned on Time Machine it dosnt back up one time as my computer and another as a server. That may not make any sence at all.
Here is a screen shot of my external hardrive:
636.33 GB, before yesterday it was half that. But my wife's hardrive is 100 GB of Data.
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My MBP said my disk space was getting full. I made space and 2 hours later it notified me it was almost full again. I deleted more files and now I can literally see space disappear from my Finder. How is this happening and where is it going?!!!

Please HELP ME!
I'm not sure WTH is going on, and it's frustrating the crap out of me.
I don't have any external drives connected, and I've never had this problem before.
***NOTE: suddenly now it's showing that I have 30gb+ free. WTH just happened?!***

Time Machine is having fun with you.....
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http://www.apple.com/support/timemachine/

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All of a sudden my Pro started notifying me that my disk space was almost full and I know for sure that I had more than 80GB available. So now I only have 8GB disk space left out of 121GB and I have absolutely no idea where all that space has gone to??
When I checked my Mac it says 42.74GB of storage is "Other". Something HUGE must have downloaded accidentally but I can't find it anywhere on my mac pro.
What should I do?

For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation—not the mythical 10%, 15%, or any other percentage. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS or GP can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Ignore any other messages that appear in the Terminal window.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

Conserving disk space solution

Hi all pros!
I need help with conserving my disk space. I have a total diskspace of around 40016070 gig's = 630 gig's
I was confident it would be enough, but it has shown to be not near enough.
Before I go out to get more disks I need to check with the forums if I could solve the issue by compressing the dv-files.
What takes up all the disk space is a project that involves about 5x2x5 hrs= 50 hours of DV material. Its footage of a 5 day course that needs to be produced for dvd distribution. The footage also needs to be stored as backup. But it simply takes up too much disk space.
I tried to compress the captured dv-files to h.264 .mov files which came out extremely well except for that it could of course not be edited in FCP, which is greatly dissapointing.
I have about 50 dv-files that are around 5-10 gigs each = 250-500 gigs. Is there anyway that i could do to compress these dv files to a format that could still be edited with FC and replace the larger dv files by reconnecting them in FCP?
The files i compressed with h.264 were about 1/10 of the size of the dv-files without loosing anything in matter of quality. Weeee! However, they were useless since they couldnt be edited or reconnected into my FCP project.
I need to do this because after the DVDs are ready I would like to store the raw captured files as backup rather than deleting them.
In addition, I would like to know if there are, or will be, any better solutions for digital video than DV-cams? I've heard that there will be cameras that record directly on hard-drives that cost 5000$ each. I hope they have another format than dv that uses disk-space more effectively like h.264.
Best regards

If you don't need to keep ALL of the footage and just what you used in the final edit, you could capture the material as OfflineRT directly from the DV camera masters... then recapture and keep only what is used in the edit... OfflineRT will allow you to capture about 8 times as much material as DV does.
There are new solid state cameras coming from Panasonic, but the file sizes will be larger, not smaller.. they are HD cameras... will run about $6,000 US plus storage and can record to hard drives, or to PC cards (P2 cards) The PC cards then can be copied to hard drives and reused... they are expensive right now per gig, but you can count on that price going down... Check out this: http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O &storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=93120&catGroupId=14616&modelNo=AG-HVX200&s urfModel=AG-HVX200
I'm drooling over this format... no tape, no tape and solid state... cool very cool, TRUE HD (NOT HDV)...
Jerry

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