Free Up Storage On Mackbook Air
Mar 17, 2012
I have been trying to free up space on my macbook air all morning and haven't gotten anywhere.I have the 60GB 11inch version with OS 10.6.8..Finder says that I have only 900 MB remaining.I deleted about 8GB of TV shows and movies from iTunes directly from the folder, removed from trash and there was only about 1MB of change to remaining storage.I am using filevault, but cannot turn it off because I do not have space.Time machine is turned off - I have never specifed an external hard drive, so it it has never been turned on. Though the icon appears on the top.The size of the sparcebundle is 42GB, but the contect on the filevault account only reaches about 30 GB.I downloaded tinkertool and did not find any strange hidden files.I tried to repair and verify the disk using disk utility - no change
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 5, 2014
I have a solid state memory in the airbook mac and want to free up storage space. Transfering files to external jumpdrives and putting files into the trash does not free up the space. The wording is 'MAC OS extended' in the format space when disc utility is opened and top title 'erase' is selected.
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MacBook Air (11-inch Late 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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I've only got 21 GB left on my iMac out of 639 GB or something (I save a LOT of videos and audios). My computer is running soooooo slow so I'm thinking that it's just got too much in there and too close to the max capacity to run faster. Am I right? Do I need to delete things or purge or what to free up storage?Â
I've already deleted a ton of files but I think they are saved in more than one place which means duplicate files all over the place I think? Not sure.
But I can't always save something to the folder I want to save it in, it goes in my downloads folder where then I have to move it to the appropriate folder to save in an organized manner. I've deleted most of my downloads folder and many videos but I'd rather save them somewhere instead and not just rely on YouTube to host and save them. Â
I have an online data backup system too, Carbonite, but I'm not sure I can save other things there that then are not still on my computer?
I could save things on a hard drive but will that really solve my sloooow computer running issues?Â
Not sure what to do?Â
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iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), its a 2009 model
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iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.1
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Mar 23, 2012
I backed up my hard drive to an external drive. I now want to free up my hard drive storage space. How do I do that. I deleted several GB of iTunes but the free file space did not increase. How can I free up disk space?
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mac pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
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My iTunes default save location is to my Drobo storage unit. Now that I have reinstalled Lion, I am looking for the easiest, most convenient, and safest way to change the default save location in iTunes and then importing the media. It would be nice if it was possible to just simply change the default save location to the folder I previously had all my media saved in and it would just magically appear in iTunes. Everything was organized perfectly, which took hours of time and attention to details. Â
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Mac Mini, 2 13 Inch Macbooks, Mac OS X (10.5.7)
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Mar 20, 2009
Yesterday I apparently interrupted Disk Utility when it was erasing free space, which was far bigger than the used space on my beloved black Macbook. Apparently the free space, because the program was interrupted, is seen as one honking big file.
This morning, the disk utility tells me that I have zero free space. Verify says I do not need repair. I checked because of all my sudden problems (I am unable to save anything to the laptop, unable to cut-and-paste . . . and unable to erase free space again since there officially isn't any, etc.).
Trash is empty.
I tried (based on advice in another thread) to reboot with the installation disk so as to use its disk utility program, but the installation disk menu offers "install" etc. but not (as far as I can tell) just access to its disk utility.
I plugged in my Timemachine external drive [WD MyBook], but the most recent "save" there has the "restore" button greyed out. That's scary.
I'm willing to do a complete re-install if necessary, but I hope that one of you has a simpler solution that will simply get my free space back.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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MacBook
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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