Loss of storage space on my MacBook Air

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• How to clear a space on the MacBook Air

  Hello

  Under "about this Mac" / storage, distribution of Go, there are 55 GB and increases in the other"" category.

  I am able to delete the video and music files, but how do I clear the "others"? I don't know how to see what that means.

  My MacBook Air has only 121 GB.

  Thank you

  Jacqueline

  It is explanation of Apple which is included in the category 'other ':

  OS x: what is 'other' space about this Mac? -Apple Support

  With 125 GB of storage, you should look into buying an external hard drive. They are fairly inexpensive now days. You must have one for backups anyway.

  In the meantime, take a look at this guide to a very experienced contributor to communities:

  What is 'Other' and what I can do about it?

• Need more space on my MacBook air

  Hey,.

  I would like to install Windows 10 on my macbook air, but I have only 10 GB of space left. I read that you can not use bootcamp on an external hard drive. Does anyone could leave suggestions on how I can get windows 10 on my mac?

  Thank you!

  You can delete data from Mac to a disc external HARD (for example, movies, music or other files) or install more storage.  OWC's largest MBA SSD available capacity:

  http://eShop.MacSales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/MacBook-Air

  Note that install a third-party SSD will void any warranty or Apple care.

  Ciao.

• How the practice is to use iCloud for storage with a new MacBook Air documents

  I currently have almost 500gig in documents on my macbookpro 2012.  Thinking of getting a new MacBook Air. For storage, I need to iCloud or a external hard drive. Don't want to carry a second piece of equipment, so I think almost any movement to the cloud. It's convenient.  Safe?

  Simply store your 500 GB of documents in iCloud is a space-saving convenience and sharing between or on your Mac (s). It is not a backup strategy because Apple does not archive the user data stored in iCloud. External, 2 TB USB3 drive will fit in the Palm of your hand, weighs almost nothing and ensures that Time Machine is to backup your user data wherever you are. It is the solution that I use with my MacBook Air to 2014, even when sitting in a coffee shop (and using VPN for security). Time Machine also captures Users/yourname/Library/Mobile Documents, which is your application compatible iCloud files and documents.

  As well as a Time Machine backup of this 500 GB of documents, I would like to put them on another external drive that goes on the plateau to ensure the guard. Sometimes external drives completely fail without warning, including two Time Machine disks that happened to me over the past four years.

  If you choose to use another non-Apple Cloud service, read the fine print on this autonomy of providers to transfer data between international servers, and your rights under foreign laws and safety distance will always give you access to your data.

• Space mgmt on Macbook Air 13 "

  I own a macbook air to 120 GB and save all the files, photos, videos and music on an external hard drive of 1 TB.  I'm surprised that I have only 7 GB of space on my mac.  What could be taken from so much space and how to fix it?

  If you download and install OmniDiskSweeper, it will show you the files and folders that use the most space on your Mac.

  The first step you need to do before you start any project to clean up disk space is a full backup of everything.

• Pavilion touchsmart 15b192sa: loss of storage space

  I installed Virtual Box on my laptop & loaded with 100 GB of storage decides so I didn't it & removed the program & now my hard C drive is showing 100 GB less storage. Is that what I can do to get that 100 GB on my C drive? I don't know where he is. Please help me.

  Hi runningvicar,

  There is another thing that you can do which is a complete System Recovery. This would bring to the factory settings that should change what your C drive. Now, you will need to backup all your data before you did.

• I have a lot of storage iCloud with my Macbook air why I also have to buy adobe revel?

  Why do I need Adobe Revel when I have a lot of storage iCloud with Apple?

  Hi Doris,.

  If you use iCloud for everything, that is to say, contacts, calendar, photos, etc., then you probably need not really Revel. If you are looking for a service that allows you to store unlimited videos and pictures, edit them, synchronize them, create albums to group with your friends and your family, then Revel is an excellent choice. Revel works with Mac, Win 8.1, iPhone/iPad and Android.

  But, as I said above, if you already use iCloud for storing your photos and you are happy with it, I would say that, in truth, you do not need to Revel, too.

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• 'ERROR 01' as I have only 66 MB of free space on my MacBook Air: (how to load the external Creative cloud on a hard drive software?

  I bought the full package, but I couldn't get it to load on my laptop.

  So my question is:

  How to load the external Creative cloud on a hard drive software?

  Or do you spend, how the "Installer Creative Cloud' to load it on an external hard drive?

  Thanking you in anticipation.

  : )

  you have the cc office application installed on your computer?

  If not, install the - apps Download Adobe Creative Cloud | CC free trial Adobe

• How to use the library of small Photos on the MacBook Air

  I'm running out of space on my MacBook Air, and I prefer to store all my original photo in iCloud. How to keep the photo library on my Mac to the size of the strict minimum. Thank you.

  Are you already using iCloud photo library or you want to turn your photo into a photo library of iCloud library?

  To save storage on your Mac, select iCloud in the pictures library > Preferences > iCloud. also turn on "Optimize Mac Storage" in this Panel.

  Photos will replace originals in your library of optimized versions. But this process is dynamic. If you are short on storage, it will replace original more optimized versions. So, it will take some time, until your photo library becomes smaller. You cannot influence this process.

  A way to shrink the photo library immediately, is radical enough: wait until the first download of your photos is complete and all the pictures are on iCloud.  Make a current backup of your photo library by copying to an external drive.

  Then delete the photo library on your internal drive. Launch photos while holding down the key options and create a new empty library. This library in your system photo library and activate iCloud photo library with optimization of the storage.

  Now, all your photos will download as optimized versions and the library will be much smaller from the start.  However, it has some drawbacks.  Thumbnails of faces will be lost, also all of your projects. It will be like using your iCloud library another computer: use Photos and photo library on several Macs - Apple Support iCloud

• Can I reset my MacBook Air and restore the backup I made before to reduce others' storage space?

  Hello

  so I have the 126 GB MacBook Air. My problem is that the other takes 87 GB!

  So can I reset my laptop and restore the backup later like you do with iPhones to reduce the "other"?

  I guess this could work, but I'm afraid something away...

  I hope that there is someone who can help me!

  Thank you!

  There is nothing necessarily wrong with 'other' as long it's documents, etc. that you need.

  Make a backup and a restore just grow what you have now. I would not recommend it.

  If you don't think the number is correct you can reindex to see if that changes it: Spotlight: how to re - index folders or volumes - Apple Support

  These links may also help:

  OS x: what is 'other' space about this Mac? -Apple Support

  https://discussions.Apple.com/docs/doc-5142

• Enabling iCloud library fills a storage capacity on macbook air

  So I try to upload my pictures on iCloud to free up storage on my Macbook air.  Besides the fact that this process seems to take forever, I noticed when it goes I'm actually losing space on my hard drive.  This caused the upload stop and gives me the error message indicating that I have no more space on my hard drive and the process cannot continue.  I made sure the storage parameter optimize is on so that I do not download originals to iCloud.  Also, when I turn off iCloud, I don't have storage space.  So I have the feeling that anything that is uploaded is downloaded several times.

  So my question is what is being downloaded, and how to delete to free up more space on my hard drive?

  The use of the photo library of iCloud frees space on your Mac, it uses the same space, as it would if you do not use. So if you don't have enough space on your Mac to fit photos, you'll have enough space to use the photo library.

  Try another service for storage.

• MacBook air, lack of available disk space

  I have a 2015 macbook air, 128 GB version. yesterday, I got about 50 GB of available space, today I noticed, it was reduced to a mere 14 GB. I have not downloaded anything significant. Looking at my storage, all the missing space is classified as 'other '. How can I recover my memory or see where provenance?

  It is possible that the figures are false. So, if re-indexing can fix it: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

  The following persons also have the information that can help:

  OS x: what is 'other' space about this Mac? -Apple Support

  What is 'Other' and what I can do about it?

• If I move my pictures from my macbook air to the icloud storage remove them from my disk hard mac without them moved from the icloud?

  If I move my pictures from my macbook air to the icloud storage remove them from my disk hard mac without them moved from the icloud?

  Hello there, bfo4nne.

  Looks like you are trying to manage your iCloud-storage space to save space on the hard drive of your MacBook Air. The following Knowledge Base article provides a well rounded explanation of managing storage iCloud:

  Manage your iCloud-storage space

  Thank you for reaching out to the communities of Apple Support.

  Sincerely.

• MacBook Air missing hard drive space

  I noticed that the free space on the hard drive on my Macbook Air has been quickly disappear even if I had not been adding lots of new files, certainly not enough to account for the 10s of gigabytes that disappeared last week. I cleaned it of useless media files, which gives him another 20 GB of space. The status bar it reflects accurately at first, but when I started the computer this morning, it had lost 30 GB of this adjustment.

  After you run WhatSize DaisyDisk, I see that they have both claim that my Air uses Go 296, which is in agreement with the about this Mac, but when you look at the size of the actual folders, there is no way that they measure is added to this amount.

  Using Get Info, I got the following:

  14.43 applications gb

  Users 42,45

  System of 7.77

  Library of 8.95

  That all adds up to about 74 GB of used space. WhatSize actually gives me different numbers. Where in the world are the other 220 or so lack of gbs? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  (Note: although I typed this out, I noticed that about 8 GB of free space have disappeared in the status bar)

  Here are a few screenshots of WhatSize and disk utility. Of THE claims that 'other' includes 283 GB, but I can't understand what is included in whatever measure it as 'other '.

  

  

  

  If you want more accurate stats from the about this Mac, then to re-index your drive: Spotlight - how to re - index folders or volumes - Apple Support.

  Free space on hard drive

  1. see Lion-Lion/mountain/storage of the Mavericks display.

  2. you can remove the data from your file except for the folder/Home/Library /.

  3. visit The FAQ XLab and read the FAQ on the free space on your hard drive.

  4. also see release space on your Mac OS X startup disk.

  5 see where my disk space gone?.

  6 see the storage view.

  You must empty the trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.

  You should consider to replace the drive with a larger. Check out OWC of readers, tutorials and boxes tools.

  Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are.

• MacBook Air Flash storage problem

  So I just got a Macbook air mid 2012. It has 128 GB flash storage whilst running the latest Mac OS X Version 10.11.1 and the problem is that it is either showing wrong info or a lot of storage was taken over by something unknown. Apps took more than 50 GB of space even if there is no all the apps that are heavier than Microsoft Word and Excel. Acquired photos 8 GB and 4 GB audio which is totally false because there is not any music in there still. Please guide me in solving this problem.

  For more information about the other category in the view of storage, see this support article. If the display appears to be inaccurate, try to rebuild the Spotlight index.

  Empty the trash if you don't have it already done. If you use iPhoto, emptying his trash internal everything first:

  ▹ iPhoto empty the trash

  In pictures:

  ▹ Show of the recently deleted ▹ file delete all

  Do the same thing in other applications like Aperture, with an internal feature of the trash. Then, restart the computer. Temporarily, which will free up space.

  According to the documentation from Apple, you need at least 8 GB of free space on the boot volume (as shown in the Infolog) for normal operation, not the mythical 10%, 15% or any percentage. You also need enough space to allow the growth of the data over. There is little or no advantage in terms of performance to get more free space than the minimum Apple recommends. Storage space you'll never use is wasted space.

  When Time Machine backs up a Mac laptop, some free space will be used to make a snapshots the, who are backups of deleted files recently. The space occupied by the local snapshots is declared as available by the Finder and should be considered as such. In the view of storage of the information system, snapshots appear them as backups. The snapshots are deleted automatically when they expire or when free space becomes less than a certain level. You don't need to usually and should not, remove snapshots them yourself. If you have followed the bad advice to disable snapshots the running a shell command, you may have ended up with a large amount of data in the other category. Ask for instructions in this case.

  See this support article for some easy ways to free up storage space. A common waste of space is old backups iTunes to mobile devices. As shown in this support article, select the devices tab in the iTunes preferences window, select the backup that you want to remove and click on delete the backups. Keep at least a backup of each device you use yet.

  You can use a tool such OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the volume and discover what is take up space. You can also delete files with it, but not unless you don't know you know what you remove and that all data is stored safely. This means that you have several backups, not one. Note that CESO works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you use an older version of the OS, use GP.

  Deletion of files inside a photo library or iTunes will damage the library. Such a library should be changed within the application that created it. It is the same for e-mail files.

  Go further than if the problem is not resolved by the steps above.

  ODS or GP can not see the whole file system when you run simply by double-clicking; He sees only the files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you must run it as root.

  Back up all the data now.

  Install the application in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it runs.

  Triple-click anywhere in the row of the text below on this page to select it, and then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing Control-C key combination.

  For ODS:

  security execute-with-privileges /A*/OmniDiskSweeper.app/*/M*/* 2>&-

  For PMS:

  security execute-with-privileges /A*/GrandPerspective.app/*/M*/* 2>&-

  Launch the Terminal application integrated in one of the following ways:

  ☞ Enter the first letters of his name in a Spotlight search. Select from the results (it should be at the top).

  ☞ In the Finder, select go utilities ▹ of menu bar or press the combination of keys shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

  ☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.

  Paste in the Terminal window by pressing command + V. You will be asked for your login password.

  The application window opens behind other open windows. When you scan a volume, the window will finally show all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.

  I do not recommend that you make a habit of doing. Do not delete anything as root. If something should be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then remove by safer alternatives. If in doubt, leave it alone or ask for advice.

  When you are finished with the app, he quit and also to leave Terminal.