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Apr 9, 2012

I have been using iphoto with my nikon d5100. I just changed from shooting in basic jpeg form to trying to shoot in raw.and then my computer started acting up. and no matter how much stuff I get rid of it keeops saying that it is full...

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Jun 2, 2012

I get alerts that my startup disk is full even after I keep deleting hundreds (and up to thousands) of files - 13" aluminum MacBook

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May 27, 2012

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Jun 16, 2012

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May 1, 2012

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Feb 21, 2012

I am running OS X Lion on my startup disk is full. I checked my storage in the about this mac window. 49.72GB of my HD space is taken up by Other.  Also in Disk Utility under the partition almost the entire rectangle is light blue. I am worried that my MacBook is to old to run the software. I use my machine to run Adobe CS4. The error turns up when I run Photoshop so I am unable to run the program at all. 

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May 21, 2012

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May 28, 2012

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May 5, 2010

I'm a fairly naive mac user and got my friend to instal my new harddrive.

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Mar 4, 2012

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