My mac is filling up quicker than a river after a storm, what would be the best way to solve this problem ? Should I buy an external hard drive ? if so what do you recommend ?
2007-01-08 18:06:34 · 8 answers · asked by pat P 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Yes, you have filled up your hard drive. In the short term just see what files you can delete in documents. Trash any programs that you don't use. If you can, burn some files onto CD or DVD to help clear space. An external USB drive is a quick way to gain more hard drive space for you docs, pictures and music files. If you can clear enough space I would recommend installing Onyx, a free programme that will help clear out some unused cache files and run some maintenance on your dive.
We recently bought a large external USB drive for all our music and video files on our Mac Mini which works great(we did reformat it for Mac though). Very quick to install and quiet too. we only turn it on when we need to.
2007-01-08 20:05:52 · answer #1 · answered by emread2002 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you do a command-i while the hard drive icon is clicked, it should tell you how much space is available. Is it possible that you've filled up the drive with pictures, music, or movies? Sorry, but only you would know what can be deleted safely. If you don't know what a file is, don't delete it, please.
You can certainly buy another drive, likely an external drive would be best if you have a USB port available. You hadn't stated which type of Mac you have and which version of the Mac Operating System you're running.
2007-01-08 18:10:33 · answer #2 · answered by bogus_dude 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you have it set to automatically back up your hard drive and/or home folder? I had that on mine. It doesn't delete the previous backup, so I filled up a lot of space quickly.
Now I backup manually and delete the previous backup.
2007-01-08 18:10:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
First place to start up could be your track and image data. those are the biggest annoying tension hogs around. back them as much as an exterior annoying tension or to disk. you would be able to additionally elect to evaluate protecting your itunes track completely on an exterior annoying tension.
2016-10-30 10:03:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Remove something you don't need.
2. Buy some more memory. Which is more convenient to you..
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2007-01-08 18:23:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
buy more memory, defragment more often and add/remove programs you dont use
2007-01-08 20:36:18 · answer #6 · answered by placidma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use a mac.... just buy some more memory.... its not rocket science
2007-01-08 18:10:45 · answer #7 · answered by 2 good 2 miss 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
remove something you dont need.
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2007-01-08 18:12:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋