mac startup disk space? Says I need more room?

Question

My emac is about 2 years old, and it is at the point where every 2 min this little sign pops up saying that there isnt enough startup disk space. how do i make more room, i know i hv to delete junk obviously, but where do i go to do this? where's the stuff i hv to delete? thnx

Answer 1

The first thing that you should do is open a new window of your hard drive and look at the size column. This will tell you what folders are taking up the most room. Then, decide what you want to delete if you don't need it. After deciding what to delete, drag your junk to the trash folder. Once you have dragged everything to the trash, and you have made sure you don't need it, go to the Finder bar at the top of the screen and press empty trash. This will delete everything in your trash and you won't be able to retrieve it again. This should open up some space.

Another option you have is to export some files you do not need at the moment, but may need in the future, to another drive. This could be a USB key or a Fire Wire drive.

Hope this helps! :)

Answer 2

I think "legend" misread your question. Maybe he thinks you have an "emachine". Those "machines" are Windows computers.

On the hard drive is a folder called "Users" and in that is your home folder. Don't worry if the name is not what you want. You should never change the name of your home folder. Open your home folder. Inside it are several folders. The one called "Library" is off limits so leave it alone. All other folders can be burned to a CD. You may need to burn only the Music and Movies folders because those are usually the largest. Verify that the burned CD has exactly what you want and that the files can be opened and used. After that, you can trash any of those folders except Library. Then logout or restart and empty the trash.

Ultimately, you need a larger hard drive. Because replacing the hard drive on an eMac is about as difficult and as dangerous as milking a tiger, I recommend an external Firewire or USB drive.

Answer 3

1 music files
2 if you have alot of pictures
3 start- accessories-system tools- clean up disk space
4 movie clips
5 look in add remove programs, delete any on drive youdont use
6 defrag pc also under system tools

hope this is a bit of help to you good luck

Answer 4

may well be a pandemic fooling around, do an entire test and revise any downloads you have carried out, coule additionally be an blunders which includes your os, i might (a) if macs have any utility for cleansing the registry then acquire and do a test, additionally in comparison to living house windows xp which i exploit which has whats referred to as an blunders log, if macs have something comparable to blunders or journey logs then take a glance because it could shed gentle if there is an blunders, perform a little google study for the difficulty, if all fails pass on your nearest apple save in the journey that your interior the united kingdom or in the journey that your interior the U. S. attempt calling client provider. different than that i wouldnt complication as though it says u have 120gig then your risk-free and its then all the way down to an os blunders.