MacBook :: How To Clean Up Startup Disk

Dec 12, 2014

My macbook air keeps telling me that my startup disk is full or almost full. I have deleted all video files and many music files. All I have added to it now is Spotify. How to clean up the startup disk?

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MacBook Air (13-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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