Hard Drive Clean Up

You need to make some space available on your hard drive. You should, at a minimum, maintain a minimum of 10 - 15 GB of space at all times. Your hard drive is not just storage space, it is also the place where your OS and everything that makes your computer work are located.

So, get an external hard drive and move some space hogging files such as movies, photos, videos, etc. to the external and then empty the trash to free space.

If you are seeing something like this:

It is indicating that is located in your iCloud Drive and not

downloading. That symbol in other apps also simply indicate

that a file is available for download if desired, i.e. like purchased

iTunes media.