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As to your question: You can clear disk space from your existing disk and you can purchase an external hard drive onto which you can offload some data. PlotinusVeritas gives some great suggestions for purchasing external hard drives in this thread:
Most hard drives connect via USB but others connect by FireWire or Thunderbolt.
You should have one external hard drive for your Time Machine backups and then you can have a second for offloading data. If you do not have a Time Machine backup it is time to create one. You should always have up-to-date backups so you will be able to recover your data if and when your internal disk/SSD fails.
Upgrade Your SSD. The most radical option to expand your MacBook's storage is to upgrade its. Getting a look at your existing storage use is a great predictor of how much space you will need for the future. However, adding space to a Mac laptop after purchase is virtually impossible without voiding your warranty, so it's a good idea to default to the next size up.
If you have less than 20% disk space then it is time to roll up your sleeves and search for what you can delete and what you can offload to another disk.
If you have less than 10 GB you definitely need to delete or offload some files or purchase a lager disk or SSD (see below). You may want to maintain at least 20 GB of free space so when your disk starts filling again it will have some room before it hits that 10 GB mark again. More headroom is better. If you let the space fall much below 9 GB you might not be able to boot your machine.
Backup:
Run a Time Machine (or other) backup since you are about to delete and move files and you may need to recover from any inadvertent mistakes or decisions. You will need one external hard drive for your Time Machine (or other) backup and a second if you plan to offload some files. (See suggestions for where to purchase hard drives at the end of this message.)
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For more about backups:
Time Machine Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Most commonly used backup methods:
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection:
Initial easy steps to gain disk space:
I have a collection of Borsalino fedoras myself.
As to your question: You can clear disk space from your existing disk and you can purchase an external hard drive onto which you can offload some data. PlotinusVeritas gives some great suggestions for purchasing external hard drives in this thread:
Most hard drives connect via USB but others connect by FireWire or Thunderbolt.
You should have one external hard drive for your Time Machine backups and then you can have a second for offloading data. If you do not have a Time Machine backup it is time to create one. You should always have up-to-date backups so you will be able to recover your data if and when your internal disk/SSD fails.
Upgrade Your SSD. The most radical option to expand your MacBook's storage is to upgrade its. Getting a look at your existing storage use is a great predictor of how much space you will need for the future. However, adding space to a Mac laptop after purchase is virtually impossible without voiding your warranty, so it's a good idea to default to the next size up.
If you have less than 20% disk space then it is time to roll up your sleeves and search for what you can delete and what you can offload to another disk.
If you have less than 10 GB you definitely need to delete or offload some files or purchase a lager disk or SSD (see below). You may want to maintain at least 20 GB of free space so when your disk starts filling again it will have some room before it hits that 10 GB mark again. More headroom is better. If you let the space fall much below 9 GB you might not be able to boot your machine.
Backup:
Run a Time Machine (or other) backup since you are about to delete and move files and you may need to recover from any inadvertent mistakes or decisions. You will need one external hard drive for your Time Machine (or other) backup and a second if you plan to offload some files. (See suggestions for where to purchase hard drives at the end of this message.)
Audacity video audio editing.
For more about backups:
Time Machine Basics: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1427
Most commonly used backup methods:
Methodology to protect your data. Backups vs. Archives. Long-term data protection:
Initial easy steps to gain disk space:
- Delete all files in the Downloads folder.
Empty the Trash.
- Start iPhoto.
Empty its trash.
Restart.
- Restart in Safe Mode:
Restart the computer.
As soon as you hear the chime press and hold the right shift key.
Be patient. Hold it down until you see the Apple icon.
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Restart in normal mode.
- Delete 'Recovered Messages', if any.
Hold the option key down and click 'Go' menu in the Finder menu bar.
Select 'Library' from the drop down menu.
How To Add More Space On Mac Computer
Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes
Delete 'Recovered Messages', if any.
- Empty the Trash.
- Restart.
- Re-index Macintosh HD:
- Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7:
Deleting files:
Then use the free application OmniDiskSweeper http://www.omnigroup.com/more to explore your volume in descending order by size so you can attack the problem from the top down, deleting the largest unwanted files first. Delete with caution and do not delete any system files. Remember to empty the trash after trashing the files.
How To Add More Space On Mac Air
Additional reference on freeing disk space:
Offloading files:
Consider moving some of the no-often-used large files or directories to an external disk. Use ODS again to find them. As noted above this will be at least your second hard drive. Your first one(s) is/are for your Time Machine (or other) backup(s). Do not offload files onto a Time Machine disk.
Format the second drive as Mac OS Extended (journaled). Using OWS to find large files/folders and copy them from the system drive to the external hard drive and delete them from your internal drive.
Create recovery disk mac. Then > System Preferences > Time Machine > Options… > Remove the offload HD name from the exclusions list.
Now both your system disk and your external offload disk will be backed up onto your Time Machine disk.
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From: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
To move your iTunes Music folder to another disk or partition:
To change the location of your iTunes Music folder, carefully follow the instructions in the AppleCare® Knowledge Base document 'iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Music folder.'Additional information can be found in iTunes Help.
Laptop users may want to consider having two iTunes libraries: a small library of current favorites on their computer, while their complete library resides on an external hard drive. Utilities like iTunes Library Manager enable you to easily have multiple iTunes libraries you can use with your account. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7689/itunes-library-manager
To move your iPhoto Library folder to another disk or partition:
To move the iPhoto Library folder to a new location, employ the instructions in the AppleCare Knowledge Base document from http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2506 corresponding to the version of iPhoto you are using. Additional information can be found in iPhoto Help.
Laptop users may want to consider having two iPhoto libraries: a small library of current, favorite photographs on their computer, while their complete library, or archives of older photos are saved on an external hard drive. Utilities such as iPhoto Buddy and iPhoto Library Manager enable you to have multiple iPhoto libraries that you can use with your account.
Hardware — Bigger disk/SSD:
If your system has upgradeable storage then if you are still tight on disk space consider larger storage. If you have a disk consider replacing it with a one TB disk. Check out a one terabyte HGST 7K1000 7200 rpm, SATA III drive from OWC http://eshop.macsales.com ($100). If you have an SSD consider increasing its capacity to 240 or 480 GB. A standard 240 GB SSD would cost from $200 to $280. See OWC and Crucial: http://www.crucial.com/ for options. OWC sells 120, 240 and 480 GB SSD upgrades for 2009 to 2012 MacBook Airs. A 240 GB upgrade costs $265. OWC also sells a 120 GB SSD upgrade for 2008 models for $155. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/ . If your Mac is under warranty or AppleCare replacing the SSD will void the warranty.
Dec 1, 2013 8:21 PM
