OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Up A Lot Of Space On The Startup HD?
Mar 20, 2012how to free up a lot of space on the startup HD?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Startup Disk Full (182GB Of Other) - How To Free Up Space
Jun 23, 2012My 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)
IMac PPC :: How To Free Up Space On Startup Disk
Apr 6, 2012I keep getting an error message saying there is not enough free space on the startup disk and the computer forces me to quit applications.
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Apr 19, 2012I'm getting a message my startup disk is full. My macbook air is not even a year old and when I check my storage status, my media, applications and files make up for less than a tenth of my content. However, I have nearly 110GB of "Other" type stuff that is occupying my disk. I have had no luck searching for the source of these "other" files in my Finder and all the Youtube videos and internet question responses have not helped me.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook Air :: Startup Disk Full - Get Free Space On It?
Apr 13, 2012I need to free space on it I bought a hard drive?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Intel Mac :: Increase Free Space On Startup Disc?
Jun 5, 2012I've backed up all the contents of my computer to a 1TB external hard drive connected by USB (LaCie Porsche). Time Machine is working perfectly with it! Now, I want to erase lots of files from the startup disc or do whatever I need to do in order that I might have way more available memory on the startup disc. I need to know that my backups of iPhoto are truly on the external drive, and then I need to do something so that the memory available on my desktop is maximized.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Software :: Startup / Scratch Disks Full - Need To Free Up Space?
Jan 14, 2010I keep getting the warning "startup disk almost full" and "could not complete because the scratch disk is full." Is this an error or do I truly need to free up space?
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Mar 20, 2012My startup disc reported it was nearly full. I deleted 170 gbs of i tunes media and documents, and it still reports that my disc is nearly full.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Intel Mac :: Startup Disk Full - Trying To Free Up Space By Emptying Trash (Error -8003)
Jun 11, 2012I am running OSX 10.6.8. I keep receiving messages that my startup disk is full. I tried to free space up by emptying trash & got error code -8003.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: No Free Space - Erase Free Space Interrupted
Mar 20, 2009Yesterday 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.
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Up Space On Macbook Air?
Apr 9, 2012How to free up space on my macbook air?
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MacBook Air
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Space Fragmentation?
May 1, 2012I 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
OS X Mountain Lion :: Need To Free Up Space On MBP
Jun 25, 2014Need 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
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Disk Not Showing Free Space
Apr 21, 2012I 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)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Space Fluctuates Randomly
Jun 12, 2012Since 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
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Recover Free Space For An Existing Partition?
Mar 14, 2012Up 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)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Deleting Files Does Not Free Up Space On Hard Disk
May 14, 2012I 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)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Free Space Reported On Boot Drive In Get Info
Jun 6, 2012Get 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)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Disk Utility Shows Incorrect Free Space
Jun 11, 2012The 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)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: USB Thumb Drive Won't Update The Amount Of Free Space?
Jun 21, 2012My 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
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Takes Long Time To Find Free Space After Emptying Trash?
Jul 1, 2012After emptying the trash, I've noticed that Lion does not see the additional free space until after doing a reboot, and even after that it takes a long time for it to find all the new free space. Anybody know what's wrong with the trash system?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
MacBook :: Free Up Space On Hard Drive / Program For Defragmenting Space?
Jan 19, 2009I only have like 8 gb left on my macbook's hard drive. Are there any programs I can run that will defrag/free up space? How much does Apple Store typically charge to upgrade a hard drive? How easy is it to do myself?
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Jun 14, 2012I need to get more space on my start up disk. How do I free up space by transferring to one of my back up drives?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Missing Disk Space And No Usb Startup
May 16, 2012I have a white macBook (10.7.3, 250g HD) which has begun to behave in an odd way and which I have so far failed to resolve.Â
First I got a message saying very little disk space left - only 420MB which is strange because I knew the HD to be far from full. The beach ball gave me very little access to the Finder but I was eventually able to empty safari cache which gave me 6Gb. Â
Checking the root disk folder sizes showed that only 130gb was listed in the various folders but the status bar showed that only 6gb out of 250gb was available. I tried to start up from an external USB disk (no Firewire on this machine, sadly) but the laptop refused to starup from it - tried cable in both USB ports, disk is GUID formatted. I shut down the computer - had to force shutdown with power key as unresponsive to Finder command.Â
On restarting I got a message about forced shutdown etc but status bar now says 40gb available (when there should be over 100gb). I was able to select external USB drive in Startup preferences but machine will not startup ffrom external drive.Â
Disk Utility reports no problems with internal drive. I want to use Disk Warrior but cannot find cd, hence attempt to startup from external drive. Cannot even check disk while running DW from internal disk as it says prefs file corrupted or write protected. Trashing it (as suggested) makes no difference as new prefs file still unusable.Â
I have a TM backup but don't really want to use it if it is likely to have the same corruption.Also, why is the USB disk not starting up the Machine? Only thing I can think of is to do an archive/install of Lion, but is the bloating in the system or are ther some hidden files somewhere which won't be changed?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Mac Os X Startup Disk Has No More Space Available For Application Memory?
Apr 12, 2012I have verified the disk and I have 800 megs available on a 1 gig disk?  why do I get this error
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Clean Up Startup Disc To Make More Space
Apr 25, 2012How do I clean up my Startup disc to make more space?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Startup Disk Has No More Space For Application Memory
Jun 7, 2012Two days ago my iMAC began giving me the message "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory." I have Lion 10.7.4 installed with 1TB HD (half full) and 8GB memory. 3.06 GHz intel Core 2 Duo The HD sounds like it is running all the time. How can I remedy this problem?
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iMAC
OS X :: Skipped Erase Free Space, No Space On HD?
Apr 23, 2009I managed to interrupt the computer when I selected the "Erase Free Space" option. I had 0GB left on the computer and had to cancel almost all of the applications. I Googled and found that /var/root/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems should locate the file when entered in Terminal, but whenever I try that, it just says "Permission denied." It only asked for a password once, and when I tried entering it, it said that there was no such file. I located a few other temporary files and deleted those, and also tried making empty folders on the desktop to empty the trash. It freed up 6.7 GB, but there's still a lot of space missing. I'm not sure what else to try or how to get the space back.
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Mar 25, 2012Out of the blue tonight, my Mac Mini running OS X Lion will no longer secure erase my empty space. Whenever I try to do so, I get the following error:Â "Secure Erase Free Space failed with the error:Â Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup"Â I've rebooted to no avail. I also did a complete shut down and boot up, but the error persists.
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Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Applications :: No Disk Space After Failed Disk Utility Erase Free Space?
Dec 15, 2010I'm having a pretty serious problem. I attempted to erase the free space on my HD, as I do from time to time, except this time it appeared to hang/freeze at the end, when it gets to the part where it creates a temporary file. I waited for several minutes and it didn't move. I tried clicking the skip button, but that did nothing either, so I force quit Disk Utility.
The problem is, it left the disk at "Zero KB" of free space, effectively making my computer inoperable. I was in the process of studying for a huge exam tomorrow, and am currently flipping out.
If it matters, I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, running 10.4.
I really don't want to have to reinstall the OS and import the old files, but my real fear is that I will have to do a fresh install of the OS.
