MacBook Air :: Using As Primary Computer- Solutions To Limited Storage Space...

Oct 31, 2010

For those that are using the Macbook Air as their primary computer, what are people's solutions for the limited drive size of the Macbook Air?

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OS X :: Best Way To Distribute Files / Have Limited HD Space?

Jan 3, 2011

Ok, here's what I have:MacBookPro 15"85 GB hard drive2 GB RAM139 GB of photos on the hard driveExternal hard drives:128 GB drive that contains old PC files (including about 30 GB of photos not currently in iPhoto library)500 GB portable WD hard drive for Time Machine backups (188 GB free)1 TB brand new Seagate Expansion desktop hard drive, totally freshThe problem:Finder says I have 1.8 GB of free space on my hard drive. I have to do something about these 139 GB of photos. I access them more than anything but my HD is so clogged that things are not saving well. Even iPhoto library tells me it can't save changes, and I am just trying to delete photos! I am thinking of running my iPhoto Library off of an external hard drive. Do I even have enough memory to transfer it? Should I just upgrade my internal hard drive and use the externals for backups? What would you do at this point? I want to eventually install Photoshop and Lightroom. Just bought Photoshop Elements 9 and hope to use it with iPhoto. How do I put all these hard drives to good use?

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Mar 20, 2009

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Dec 8, 2010

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Having said all of that - do any of you guys use the 11" as a primary computer? My roommate uses an Asus eeePC as her only computer, and I don't know how she functions on such a tiny screen.

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Nov 14, 2008

I know a lot of people think that the MBA is intended to function as a secondary computer. However, in some light users like me, I don't see why it can't be your primary computer. So out of curiosity I want to ask the question:

Besides me, who else in this forum uses MBA as their primary computer and how is computing experience with setup so far?

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Jun 10, 2012

I take tons of pictures and that is what's sucking up all of my memory. I currently have a 2011 Macbook Pro OS X Lion Version 10.7.4. 4 GB memory 2 GHz processor. Now that I look at the "About This Mac" it says all of my storage is "Other" with 0 KB in everything else like photos and apps which I know is false. Anyway, what should I do? Should I go to best buy and get a bigger memory? its currently 500 GB & 499.25 of that is filled up... What could I delete to free up space? Should I partition my photos onto an external hard drive?

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Jun 27, 2009

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May 8, 2009

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I have completely ran out of space and I it says most of my storage is taken up by "other"  ...

Is there a way to find out exactly what "other" is?

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Dec 4, 2014

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May 25, 2010

For those who use a 13" notebooks as their main computer or many hours a day how do you find it?Do you feel the advantage of smaller size and lighter weight outweighs the smaller screen real estate / resolution?Is the screen size perfect or do you wish you'd went larger - 15/17"? Are you often plugging into an external 22/24" monitor?

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Jun 23, 2012

I just wonder - you get a lot less space for the money. Is Flash storage that much better?

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Mar 12, 2012

security copy eats my storage space on my MBP

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Mar 18, 2012

however I can't seem to find where it shows my storage information?

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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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Sep 8, 2014

I am receiving notifications that I am running out of storage space. I backed up my mac book using an external and time machine. Can I delete some files to make room? 

If so,  

When I want to restore from my time machine, can I pick and choose, say certain songs, photos or documents?

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Aug 24, 2014

I can't seem to find out why my Mac is reporting such excessive storage use for "Photos". My iPhoto library says it's only about 1.47GB. Earlier today, I unchecked the option of importing photos from other locations to the iPhoto library, since we have an external hard drive that we use to store photos. 

Why it's reporting such high usage? In the screenshot is OmniDiskSweeper, which shows sizes of each folder. They definitely aren't adding up to the 92GB that it says is in use, unless all that extra data is coming from some folder I don't have permission to. 

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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

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Jun 26, 2014

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Apr 18, 2010

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Sep 11, 2009

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Jul 21, 2010

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Jun 22, 2012

My iMac displays a message that says the memory run out of space and this do not allow me to work with some of my apps. The problem is that i do not have installed data that can fill 500 GB... in the apple menu - about this mac - the storage status shown in yellow as other takes 499 GB of the space but I don't have this kind of data or it is something that I cannot see.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Jun 10, 2012

I appear to have used up a huge proportion of my 1TB storage space! Usual stuff like movies, photos, word files appears to have used up just over 100GB but then i have 'other' shown as about 800GB! Is there anyway I can find out what 'other' actually represents?

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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Dec 29, 2008

I've been using my external hard drive for Time Machine for a while now (a Western Digital My Book) and have only used up about 100 of its 500 GB capacity. However, I'd like to temporarily use the remaining space on the drive as extra storage, since my other hard drive just died. Is there any way to do this without erasing everything that I've backed up with Time Machine already?

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Jun 3, 2012

If Photo Stream does not use any iCloud storage, how do I find out what is taking up my storage space?

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Jun 20, 2012

My Macbook Pro says that it has 300 GB taking up space in the 'other' category of the storage of my MACINTOSH HD. What can possibly take up 300 gb?? Is there a way that I can view the individual items that are taking up space in this 'other' category, or is there a way that I can erase them? My Macbook is always warning me that my "startup disk is almost full", because I do not have any remaining memory with 'other' taking up almost all of it. For this reason, my Macbook is running very slow at times, and is having many errors.

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Feb 8, 2010

I have a Sandisk Cruzer 16GB flash drive, which was working fine for months. It was formatted as FAT32 so I could move stuff back and forth between my tech school computer and my mac. I pulled the files off of it, and put an anti-malware program on it to troublshoot a netbook for class. The size of the drive is now shrinking, down currently to 43.5KB. I have no idea what may be causing it, or how to stop it.

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MacBook Pro :: "Other" Storage Taking Up Too Much Space?

Mar 28, 2012

I have a macbook pro that's almost 2 years old now. When I checked storage, it said I have 187GB of Other storage. How can I find out what these files are? My HD seems to be running out of space. And Others is the only thing left for me to check.

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