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Jan 2, 2015 1:51 PM in response to paulette2by Kappy,You are referring to storage space, not memory. The latter is your RAM. The following will help you with your question:
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
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Jan 2, 2015 1:54 PM in response to paulette2by rkaufmann87,I would recommend using Activity Monitory to learn where your RAM is being used so you can begin managing it. On such an old machine you are limited life left in it, 4GB is enough to run Yosemite however your machine will accommodate 6GB. OWC (www.macsales.com) sells a 4GB DIMM that you can add to one of your existing 2GB dimms to get 6GB. This will increase the RAM 50%!
I am going to assume you have never used AM so here is a useful link:
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Jan 2, 2015 1:55 PM in response to paulette2by justin-T,CleanMyMac can create many problems, I would uninstall it and make your own decisions about which files to keep or delete.
The easy solution is to buy an external USB hard drive. They are very cheap these days, you can get 1TB drives for less than $100. However, you would be wise to move some of the files on your internal drive onto the external one, because this will make the internal drive operate more efficiently if it has more available space.