MacBook Air :: How To Reset Or Clear Space
Jun 2, 2014I'm looking to clear up space on my computer or even reset it to factory settings. Since i have a Macbook Air i do not have any discs to reset.
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MacBook Air
I'm looking to clear up space on my computer or even reset it to factory settings. Since i have a Macbook Air i do not have any discs to reset.
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MacBook Air
I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running Leopard with a 500 GB drive.
I seem to be losing hard disk space for no reason while web surfing in about 500 MB chunks. I tried emptying the trash, clearing the safari cache and history, and all that returned was about 200 MB.
Since I noticed this a week ago I've been keeping track, and have lost 4.5 GB of space for no reason.
I'm not adding files nor running time machine or some other backup that's constantly creating a disk image.
I have a 500GB hardrive with 400GB being used. I can account for around 100GB for videos, movies, pojects, and applications. So basically there is about 300GB of taken up space thats unaccounted for. I don't know what could be taking up the space. If anyone can help me locate the data or know of a program to do it that would be awesome.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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