For a few weeks now I've been receiving an alert telling me my startup disk is nearly full, telling me I need to delete files. I've been deleting a whole lot of files, dozens, perhaps even a hundred (and yes, I emptied the trash, wiseguy) but today I have received intelligence that my hard drive is FULL. I can't download music, can't save changes to documents, nada. Do I need to buy more memory? For the record, I don't have a ton of stuff ON my hard drive, just an average-sized music collection, some text documents and some images and videos. I'm not sure how much memory is on my HD at present. What can I do?
2006-12-07 14:35:32 · 9 answers · asked by Amelia 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
No. It means your hard drive is almost full. You'll need to go through it and clean it out.
More memory won't fix it. You will either need to clean out the old one, or replace it with a larger one.
2006-12-07 14:38:20 · answer #1 · answered by The Psycho 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no memory on your hard drive. There is only hard drive space, which is a different thing. "Full hard drive" means that your hard drive is full, not that you need more memory (i.e., RAM).
If you've already deleted unnecessary files, you might want to try rebooting. I have found that sometimes that frees up disk space. You might also want to run Disk Utility to check that your HD is OK.
You can see how much HD space you have available at the bottom of any Finder window. If that doesn't work, select the HD icon in the Finder and choose File | Get Info.
2006-12-07 22:43:30 · answer #2 · answered by MarnenLK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but not internal memory. Harddisk space. They don't call that 'memory', generally (although, stricly, it is). Adding internal memory modules does not help at all.
You deleted 'hundreds' of files? That doesn't have to be much at all. You can better delete 1 big file of 10GB then 100,000 of 1kB.
Do a search on your harddrive for files, then sort them on size. Use google to identify the bigger ones, to find out if they can be deleted.
A music collection can consume many many MB's. You might need a bigger HD. An option is to buy an external USB-drive, and then MOVE all music to the external drive.
Video collections use even more space.
Maybe you really DON'T have a ton of stuff on the hard drive... But if your hard drive is rather small, then (ofcourse) it more speedily gets full!
What might help: remove the bigger applications completely, and reinstall them, but this time only the things you really need (choose custom setup, skip the defaults).
2006-12-07 22:37:51 · answer #3 · answered by · 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Download Monolingual, to delete unneeded language files (iTunes alone has 20 MB), install and run it. It's a free app. DO NOT choose English, if you do you will need to reinstall Mac OS and lose all your data. Delete your log files and caches, they tend to accumulate over time with YASU or Onyx, both free.
If your system still tells you your hard drive is full, there are instances where Macs have been giving notices that the hard drive is full even tho they are not. Do a search in Apple Support Forum for a fix.
You can find YASU or Onyx here under Mac OS X Maintenance.
http://www.pure-mac.com/diag.html
2006-12-07 23:25:50 · answer #4 · answered by Elbert 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO its not the memory you need its the hard disk space, if you are a type of person who loves downloading music ... your computer will probably need a huge amount of hard disk space.... but in your case since your hard disk is loaded , you can upgrade your hard disk space by buying new hard disk drive and install it in your pc...then viola! you can continue downloading
2006-12-07 22:51:59 · answer #5 · answered by airyce 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your memory is not the problem, it's most likely all the cookies and internet files that are on your computer. Once you delete them, that should help out.
2006-12-07 22:40:10 · answer #6 · answered by Aaron 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Explore and Delete Stuff, Like in the File Directory. ( My computer)
And you may want to buy Harddisk space or a new one and run a scan(Virus, Cookies, spyware, and delete it).
2006-12-07 22:39:21 · answer #7 · answered by blue 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
o.o, probably the temporary file and the history of the internet, and the cookies......
you need to clean it up, i don't use Mac OS X so i don't know how to clean it, but usually in XP you gotta right click the hard drive and then properties, then clean your hard drive
2006-12-07 22:44:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
DUH!
It means don't buy more memory - it means buy a bigger hard drive!
2006-12-07 22:45:06 · answer #9 · answered by Say What? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋