Need to free up about 30G on my mbp (Mountain Lion). iPhoto library is about 48G. iTunes LIbrary is about 34G. I want to backup to a Flash drive (64G) either:
1) some from each or
2) back up one of them.Â
how would I access the backed up data?Â
I wanted to download iBook Author. But it forces me to upgrade to Lion. If I update now, will I get the next OS i.e Mountain Lion for free, in view of the near release of Mountain Lion?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Will OS X Mountain Lion be free???
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), OS Lion
just recieved my refurbished macbook air (2011) 2 weeks ago.Does it qualify for free upgrade to mountain lion ? The website only talked about "qualifying new mac system set..."
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 15'
i gonna buy a new imac so will i get the free os x mountain upgrade
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iPad 2, iOS 4.3.3, black ipad
i bought a macbook pro on 16 june 2012 in india. There is this free upgrade program for people buying mac on or after 11 june. should i apply for it now or after mountain lion is released...??
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), mountain lion
I got my new MacBokk Pro yesterday, how do I get my mountain lion upgrade?
Info:MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
If you buy a new MacBook pro/air now will you get a free upgrade to mountain lion when it comes out?
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I bought a new Macbook Pro after WWDC. it said that I can update for free, but must send a request within 30 days."Customers must request their Up-to-Date upgrade within 30 days of purchasing their Mac computer." so...
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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.
Cosidering purchase of a new17.3" Macbook Pro Laptop in early June 2012, will Apple provide a free or discounted version of OS X Mountain Lion?
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Cosidering purchase of a new17.3" M
how to free up a lot of space on the startup HD?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
How to free up space on my macbook air?
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MacBook Air
I recently downloaded the iDefrag demo and it reports that my files are 0.7% fragmented but the free space on my disk is 75% fragmented, what does this mean? Should I be concerned and should I defrag the drive? My mac seems to take forever to boot up these days and programs open very slowly. I work with quite large Photoshop files regularly, but my scratch disk is set to a different drive to the system disk.Â
Any recommendations for the best way to learn about troubleshooting the Mac would be appreciated, as I'm keen to avoid any down time due to failures of any kind (I don't mind investing some money for the right training). The area I'm particularly interested in is restoring a system, if there are certain corrupt files, but doing this without affecting all the third party program files etc. I use carbon copy cloner to keep an exact copy of my system disk but am worried that if the system files becomes corrupt, I'm just making a copy of the corruption onto another disk!Â
I have a MacBook Air with 251 GB of hard drive space, yet I only have 3 gigabytes free. I checked all my folders and they certainly do not add up to 248 GB, so where is all of this coming from? I checked my activity monitor and there is nothing that drastically large neither.
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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I'm having a problem with Migration Assistant that's driving me crazy. I just bought a new Macbook Pro with a 256GB internal drive, and I have a backup of my old computer from last year that is about 350GB in size. What I am trying to do is individually take over some items from the Time Machine so that I don't fill up the HD. Here is what I have done so far:Â
I took over 100GB of an iTunes library as well as other system settings and documents. I had left something like 50GB on my internal hard drive. Not enough for my 109GB photo library.Â
So, I purchased a large SD card (128GB) to be the permanent home for my photo library. However, I had to maneuver some things around to get this to work, which has been a HUGE pain.Â
What I ended up doing was copying my whole iTunes library, which was about 98GB to the SD card. I juggled some other things around beforehand, and even though my photo file on the backup is only 109GB, it kept telling me I didn't have space. So I did the whole iTunes library instead of parts of it...Â
I now have 150GB free. Migration Assistant still tells me I don't have enough space for the transfer. How is that possible!? That's an extra 41GB of data.Â
I've already verified the HD on the macbook is fine via Disk Utility, not sure what else to do.
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The New iPad, iOS 5.1.1
If I upgrade Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion (on a 2009 MacBook 5.2), is the update limited to OS X or can I also expect to see upgrades to free apps like Address Book, Mail and iCal? If the free apps do not change to match the latest versions available, can I expect updates to the free apps soon?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I just cleaned out my HDD on my 2008 MBP and am still getting about the same amount of available space as I did when I started. I must have cleaned anywhere from 50-150GB of stuff from the hard drive and no space has been freed up. I ran a scan with my trusty Daisydick which has never let me down and it showd what I thought to be a very much more accurate amout of free space now but the system says otherise as dones another scanner. Also I cant seem to figure out for the life of me what this extra 99GB of "other" space is. Below is a link to the screenshot I took. I really try to keep things very light and tidy on here.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Since last night, my iMac (early 2010, OS X 10.7.4) keeps reporting random amounts of free space. Normally it should be about 700 GB free, but looking at the drive right now and it's 332 GB free, now 337 GB free, 26 GB, 173 GB, 0 B, 645 GB... Whenever it hits zero, I get the out-of-disk-space warning.
I've looked for other people having this issue, and found a few, but the only "solutions" suggested were to delete things to free space, which obviously isn't the issue. I've checked /var/vm, ~/Library/Caches, /var/log, Console.app, and Activity Monitor looking for anything misperforming, but nothing appears out of the ordinary. The issue persists through a restart, even when nothing running (holding shift on login). I did a clean reinstall of OS X last week, but only started last night. The only possible trigger is that the Guest User was logged in for the first time last night, and the issue started after switching back to the main user.
Info:iMac, Aluminum-glass
The backup disk needs 290.20 GB for the backup but only 262.42 GB are available.
How can I delete the old back ups. It is a seagate drive
Up until recently, I had my MacBook Pro's hard drive in 3 partitions: 2 with Mac OS X, and one as a Bootcamp partition. I recently decided that I no longer needed to Mac OS X partitions, so after backing up all the files in one of the partitions I went into Disk Utility and deleted that partition, hoping I could expand the other one to take the free space. Unfortunately, now I have this area listed as "free space," and while I can make another partition in that space, I can't expand my existing partition to take advantage of it. Is there a way for me to get this space back, or perhaps merge 2 partitions together? I'm just afraid of losing ~400GB of space.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am deleting large amounts of files / directories with 10s of GB of disk usage from my internal hard disk.Then I empty the trash.But I don't get more free space on my hard disk! I am not using File Vault.(I also believe that my file system is not corrupt.) This is quite annoying, since I am still unable to copy stuff on my internal hard disk, but given the amount of files I have just deleted, I should be able to do so.
PS:MacBook Pro, 10.7.3, very recent model, 500 GB internal hard disk.
Info:iPhone 4S, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Get Info overstates the free space on my boot drive. Disk Utility reports ~295 GB; Get Info reports ~467 GB out of 500.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
The Finder window shows that I have 302GB of harddrive space remaining, out of 500GB. The Activity Monitor and Disk Utility show I have 240GB space remaining, and my System Profiler shows I have 239GB remaining. I just deleted a bunch of old TV shows off of iTunes (about 40GB worth) to open up some space, but only the Finder changed (up to 302GB from 260GB) but the Activity Monitor, Disk Utility, and System Profiler haven't changed.Â
Now, I'll assume the Finder is showing the correct amount of space, but I'm wondering why the other utilites are showing the incorrent amount of space. I have a feeling maybe something was screwed up when I created a 50GB Windows 7 partition through Boot Camp a couple months ago.Â
I've attempted to Repair Disk through the Disk Utility and it says everything looks fine. Any solutions to this minor inconvenience? Or at least an answer as to why this is happening?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
My USB thumb drive won't update the amount of free space. It's constantly saying it is full, even if I delete the files on it. Â
It's the same on all of the thumb drives I use. Â It there a "refresh" button - to get it to update the amount of data on it?Â
I transfer large video files between an iMac and PC computer. Â
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iMac 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, iPhone OS 3.1.2, Mac OS X Lion 10.7
My startup disc is full. I have 182 GB of 'Other' that I cannot locate or delete to free up space.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I was having problems with the external drive where I store my Time Machine backups, so I tried plugging and unplugging the drive but could not mount the drive. I ran Disk Utility and tried to verify the disk, which told me the disk needed to be repaired. I tried to repair the disk only to get an error message that Disk Utility could not repair the disk and it needed to be reformatted. So I tried to erase the disk with Disk Utility only to get the error message "Volume erase failed: Media kit reports not enough space on this device for requested operation". I am not sure what else to try at this point and could not find any similar questions here. Â
The drive in question is a 3TB USB Seagate Backup + Desk Media, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). It's divided into two partitions, one of which (2.2 TB) holds only Time Machine backups of my desktop and laptop and the other of which (800GB) is formatted similarly with some files stored on it. I was able to verify and repair this other partition. I'm running Disk Utility 13 on an iMac (2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo) running OSX 10.8.5Â ...
