Intel Mac :: Using OS10.7 Hard Disc Is Full?
Jun 13, 2012
Using OS10.7, my hard disc is full. When I go to "About this Mac - Storage", it shows that it is entirely filled with "Other". Does anyone know what "Other" is so that I can delete some of it?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 5, 2012
I have a mac book pro...one of the older models...around 5 or 6 years old..the silver one with the silver around the screen part. Running Mac OS X 10.6.8,
2.33 GHz, 2GB ram.
Lately my computer has been rediculously slow with everything, but aside from that my issue is with my start up disc. I would have over 1.5 GB of space left, open up a photoshop file...make some alterations and save...and all of a sudden I have NO SPACE left. These alterations created the photoshop file to be like 50mb more. Its a 200mb file. So how can I go from 1.5 gigs to saving a 200mb .psd file and all of a sudden 0 hd space?
Sometimes I couldnt even save the .psd because when I opened it all of a sudden I have half a gig now. And even if I had half a gig why wouldnt I be able to save? I go to save and sometimes it says "your start up disc us full" - Is this different than my harddrive?
Is photoshop using some sort of weird caching thing?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 14, 2012
I have a disc full of photo's stuck in the disc drive on my imac. When I try to eject it, I get a spinning rainbow circle and have to do a hard shut down. It sounds like it is trying to eject it, but then gets hung up.
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iMac, iOS 5.1
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May 18, 2012
I have just recently downloaded another all in one printer and updated a few software programs. I'm getting a full hard disc warning?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 9, 2012
Im getting an error message that states Mac OSX start disc has no more available space for application memory. Also color wheel continues to spin with no progress. Computer gets hung up. Computer is only months old.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 17, 2012
I have been trying to upload photos from new Iphone we took on vacation but will not upload all photos because it says the start up disc is full
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Imac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
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Apr 27, 2012
start up disc is full on my imac but cant seem to locate the file to delete, it show that i have 236gb usage and 14gb free space. and i have deleted all my movies, pics and music so i dont understand where the 236 gb usage is from.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), i have delete my movies,pics, music
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Oct 13, 2009
Please take pity on a confused newbie. I'm running 10.4.11 (Tiger) on a 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 13" Macbook with 1GB ram. My school requires me to run Bootcamp to take my exams. They told us that we need 10.5 minimum OS and must have our 'original system discs'. The installation dics that I have are for Tiger. If I buy an upgrade disc to Leopard/SL, will that contain the windows drivers I need to install after I install bootcamp? Or do I need to buy a full installation disc of Snow Leopard (since I think you can't buy the Leopard full installation anymore)? Another issue someone mentioned is that both Leopard & SL require 1BG ram minimum, which is what I have. I'm worried the os will run very slow, but I don't really have the money to buy new ram and get it install (and don't want to crack the fragile top case) now that I have to buy the new software too.
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Apr 4, 2009
My G-4 startup disc is full and now the computer won't start up. I am told to put a startup disc in the drive and restart from it, but I cannot get the disc drive to open. I have tried everything, including copying over to external hard drive. I read that if you hold the mouse button down, the disc drive will open, but this hasn't worked.
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Feb 19, 2012
Why does my Mac say my hard drive is full, but there should be plenty of space on it?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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Feb 23, 2012
Error message "Your start up disc is full please remove files to clear"which I have done but no joy?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 16, 2012
I keep getting a "start up disc is full" message on my iMac (OSX 10.7.3 running leopard). It can't be full the mac is only a few months old
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 30, 2012
My 27inch iMac has suddenly started writing to hard disc at 1.6MB/sec continuously according to Activity Monitor. Very noisy, and slowing computer down.. Cannot establish what it is writing or why. No virus (never been used for internet).
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iMac
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Jun 21, 2012
My hard drive is so full, I cannot boot to desktop. It shows eyeglasses in top right corner. I don't have another mac to make it a hard drive. Is there another workaround?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 13, 2012
I have recently started working from home on my mac - in the last 2 weeks 30gb of space has dissappeared off my hard drive - i cant find it
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iMac (24-inch Early 2008)
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Aug 26, 2014
I turned on my iMac (20in 2008 model) and after the apple logo appears, I get a gray screen that says "process 1 exec of sbin/launched failed". I'm pretty sure it's because my hard disk is full. I tried booting up in safe mode, but my wireless keyboard battery died. I put in new batteries, but I need to get to the desktop to reconnect the keyboard. I tried using a usb wired keyboard, but it doesn't power up until I'm on the desktop screen. I don't know what else to do. I need a keyboard to boot to safe mode, but I need to be fully booted to work the keyboard.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
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Sep 9, 2009
So my brother was upgrading to Snow Leopard from Leopard tonight...and during the install, the time remaining went negative, then shortly thereafter everything froze up so he was forced to power down and since then nothing has been right. He can't restore from backup because apparently there isn't enough space on the disk, then we tried to repair persmissions, it says it cannot and to reformat hard drive...so we do that, reboot and then try to re-install leopard only for now, and when it comes up to choose a destination drive he is just a blank box, his hard drive doesn't show up!
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May 5, 2012
Here is the back ground information of this situation. I have a IMAC 21 inch 500GB Hard drive 4 GB RAM, which is up to date with OS X Ver 10.7.3. So my wife loves to stream her favorite USA TV shows via the Internet, considering we are stationed overseas. She pulled me away from the NBA playoffs because she kept getting this error of start up disk full delete files (or something to that effect.) So last week, I deleted about 40GB of old shows that we downloaded and various other files and pictures. Not even four days later the Hard drive is full again, and I think it is from my wife's streaming habit. I went to "About This IMAC", to find out where the memory was being used from and its 377 GB used in a "OTHER", and the rest being utilized from APPS, MUSIC, PICTURES, etc. So next I cleared the history and deleted the cache files and reset safari on both our log in profiles, then logged out and restarted the computer, which did not minimize the Hard drive memory being occupied. Where are those streaming files getting saved specifically, for maybe a manual delete?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 6, 2009
I was just wondering if a full system restore can be harmful or if it's good to do every once in a while to get that "fresh" computer feeling. I just re-installed OSX and everything feels like new but was just wondering if this is bad for the hard drive or something.
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May 12, 2012
In trying to repair my hard drive, which disc utility said was corrupt, it stopped repairing it because it could not unmount the disc?I booted my macbook pro from my backup hard drive.
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macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Dec 11, 2014
I am working on a Mac book Pro and I have been getting a message that my disc drive is full. How do I clear some space? I'm running OS X v 10.9.5
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
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Jul 2, 2009
Basically make it like new without the leopard disc?
I do not have a time machine backup either.
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Mar 12, 2012
I keep getting a message to say my start disc is full and I cant understand why. I dont have a lot of things saved on it and it affecting the operating of my laptop ie, freezing/wont download new mail.
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MacBook Air, iOS 5.1
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Jun 2, 2012
I've dumped all unneccesary applications, all documents, all movies and music, no documents and I keep getting a message that my start up disc is full. I also minused my self off and deleted my account creating a new one and that sitll did not help.
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Feb 18, 2010
my OS has been crashing and making me restart my computer but as of yesterday I started getting messages that my startup disc was almost full and then Itunes deleted all my songs. I managed to get them back, but I'd like to fix this problem....Will buying more hard drive space
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Apr 2, 2012
2 days back I started getting this message "startup disc is full" I have aperture for my photos and deleted all the duplicates which should have freed up a lot of space.After deleting files when I go back and check it is still full.I have deleted files from Aperture trash and the trash on the toolbar also.Is this a virus? I personally dont think I have enough files to fill up 500GB, probably around 200 GB.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Apr 16, 2012
I am running Lion and my software is up to date. I am getting a message saying that the Start up disc is nearly full. How do I remove items from this to make things run smooth
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 5, 2012
I ignored the startup disc is full message now it; has me log on then goes to the milky way screen and basically stops
Info:MacBookPro
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May 15, 2012
What do I do when my computer has a message that the start up disc is full?
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Jun 2, 2012
My start up disc is too full. How can I make more room?
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MacBook (13-inch Late 2009)
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