I get a message saying startup disk is almost full and to delete files. How can I go about it?
I have a macbook air and a message comes up saying that my boot drive is almost full and delete files to make more space. What files and where? Thank you.
Buy an external hard drive if you do not already have one and migrate personal files, things like documents, music, photos, videos, stuff like that. Once they are on the external hard drive, delete them from your computer. You would remove them the same way you would remove any other thing - click it, right-click, select "Move to trash." Delete nothing however, until you have moved to an external drive. If you don't save a copy somewhere, once you remove them, it's over and you can't get it back.
To understand what that other things that can be deleted are go up --> about this Mac--> storage. This will tell you how many you have on your hard drive right now. Post here a screenshot of it.
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Recently, this message, "Startup disk is almost full," began to appear. I searched google but have not found a solution. I think my situation is unusual because I have more than 65 GB of available disk space.
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