I have 55g of space on my hard drive but I keep getting the "Start up disk full" warning - what do I need to do to clear it?
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.7)
By the time OS X displays the startup disk full message, you computer is already useless. Is there a way to get this warning at 5GB free space?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI see a lot of people suggesting that perhaps because the poster had less than 10gb (which is my case as well-- I have around 8), that this is why this message is happening. Well, my response to that is:
1)I have had around 8gb free for months, and these messages only started appearing in the last week. Each time I go "???" and look at my finder to see 8.4gb free or whatever, and I am like "WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME I AM OUT OF SPACE?
2)in the terminal, I was trying to download a few 20-30mb files, and wget quit out on me saying "insufficient storage space left on device".and doing "df -h" shows me that I have almost 10% free.. and again this is a 20-30mb, so this is total nonsense.
Are there any suggestions as to what might be causing this and a course of action, other than being told: "copy your files to an external hard drive and delete them on your startup disk".
My wife has an Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook with Leopard 10.5.8. We've run the software update. We've run repair disk permissions. We've restarted the computer. But despite all of that, her virtual memory usage is really high compared to my computer. Each process is using from approximately 600 - 1100 MB of virtual memory. She has 12 GB of free space on her hard drive, but her computer has been running slower lately and has had the low startup disk space warning.
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MacBook (13-inch Aluminum Late 2008), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I keep getting this warning that my disk is full, I am unable to download updates and even songs from iTunes. Also in the finder I apparently do not have any files because the my files section is blank. i have cleaned up the download folder and emptied the trash as well as performed a diskrepair. I tried to reinstall the software and was told again that the disk was full....What do I do?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I clean my start up disk for more space? I have I cloud but don't really use it.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I am trying to back up my i-phone to my Mac OS-X 10.6.8 but it is saying my Start Up Disk is too full and won't back up. How do I delete some files from my start up disk?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Message reads start up disk is full. 2 TB My Book backed up. How do I make space?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Lyon OS
How do I remove files from my startup disk?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I am getting this warning. Not sure what to do or how to do it. Couldn't find any information on freeing space without erasing important files.
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Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.5.6)
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MacMini 1.66 GHz Intel Core Duo
2GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
Mac OS X 10.6.8
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I had difficulties booting from my 10.5.8 partition. So I booted from the installation disk started disk utility and repair disk permission. I got results that said: warning, will not be repaired. What should I do? Install one of the latest back ups, or what?
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G4_400 AGP / CPU upgrade @1.1Ghz - PowerBook G4 - IMac with Intel 20"
Mac OS X (10.4.11)
10.5.8 on Partition
My MacBook pro keeps telling me my startup disk is full. I've tried searching and browsing to figure out where my startup disk is so I can figure out how it got full and delete stuff... but I can't find it.
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My hard disk is 320 GB & I've only used 111 GB so far so why is this message popping up & what can I do about it without deleting my precious files?
I'm a fairly naive mac user and got my friend to instal my new harddrive.
It's big, with 320GB.
However, he set up a startupdisk partition, with a size of 20GB, called OSX.
For some reason this is now full and slowing down my MAC which is particularly annoying as I have college essays to submit very soon!
I've checked what is on my startupdisk and it is as follows:
Private 8GB
Applications 5GB
Library 3.5GB
System 2.3GB
I don't understand what this means but I have copied applications, library and system to my HD and tried to delete off startupdisk but it won't let me. say it is require by mac.
I have an external hard drive also, but can I set up my external as a backup startup disk, and if so, how? If not, how and what do I need to delete from my startup disk to open some space?
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I have a new Mac Book Pro and have loaded a few programs on it ..but do not have much else on it...and now its telling me that my sratch disk is full and will not let me do much of anything on it....
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MacBookro, Mac OS X (10.7.2), Just switching from PC to Macs
Message on my mac; startup disk is almost full.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Info:iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.1)
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MacBook (13-inch Early 2008), Just up grade Memory to 4 GB
My startup disk is full. When I look in information 'About this Mac', I see that this disk is almost completely filled with 'Other' (173,43 GB!°. And I cannot find out what 'Other' might be! clean this 'Other' and make memoryspace available ?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
iMac says start up disk is full. now what?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
I keep getting error messages saying my startup disk is full, so I delete a bunch of things, look in about this Mac, it says I have multiple GB available and then over time they disappear and I get the error message again. earlier today I had 8 GB, they all disappeared, so I deleted a big iphoto album and got a new 13 GB, now 45 minutes later it is down to 10GB....
Info:MacBook Air (11-INCH, MID 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Ive been deleting everything still have a bunch of other the yellow bar.cant figure out what else to deleted or where to find it....
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MacBook Air, iOS 7.1.2
My MacBook Pro gets a message when I first start up on my log in page. When I then go to log in i just get a blank grey screen. Any clues as to what I can do. I've been downloading quite a lot of TV shows recently from ITunes and was going to move them to a external HD but I cant see anything.Â
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