Sorry to know that due to “Startup Disk Full” error; you have lost your important Mac data. ‘Startup disk full’ is one of the most recurrent problems faced by macOS users in their life. Although, this situation may seem serious initially, but the good news is that it has a number of free available solution for end Mac OS users. Also, you can easily recover your Mac data using the help of some professional Mac data recovery apps.
Personal Suggestion Important:- Please stop using your Mac computer hard drive in order to avoid any kind of data overwritten problems. Only after that, there is any kind of possibility to recover those lost Mac files back to the normal hard drive after using some reliable data recovery application.
About Startup Disk Full Error in Mac:-
‘Startup Mac disk full’ is one of the most recurrent issue which every Mac user experience in their day to day life while using Mac computer system. The situation arise due to this Mac error seem serious initially, but the good news is that it has multiple solutions to get rid of this problem. You can initially start with Mac Cleanup task that will help you remove all redundant files and folders from the Mac computer drive or volume.
However, the latest macOS Sierra 10.13 and Mojave 10.14 offers a new utility that removes junk files from your Mac HD or volume quite easily. A Mac user can clean up iTunes shows, movies, or any other useless junk files which you no longer require. You can also set Trash to automatically empty a time period of 30 days. All these features of Mac OS X appear efficient. But what if you need to restore those deleted or lost files back to your Mac machine after the expiry of its retention period in Trash?
Things to Do When the Mac Startup Disk Become Full:-
There are a number of solutions available that can help you to easily free up space on the Mac drive. These methods are quite easier and simple and will help you to get a considerable amount of space on your storage media or drive.
1)Simply delete unwanted apps and additional useless files from your Mac computer
2)Move all those files and folders to online cloud storage media and delete them from the system
3)Try reconnecting external storage drive to the Mac machine
Although these above listed tips to cleanup Mac hard disk are quite simple yet it is important to execute them with most care, otherwise you can delete important data permanently. If somehow you removed major data mistakenly, you will have to recover those deleted files from Mac hard drive using the help of data recovery programs.
Recover Deleted or Lost Mac Data from Backup:-
If in the past you have taken backup of your necessary and important files and folders either online or offline, then simply restore them from the backup drive and get access to the lost data. This guide from Apple will helps you how to restore Mac data from Time machine. However, if the Mac data backup is not available, then there is only one available solution to use some data recovery tool.
Also, check this Apple Discussion Reference to know in detail about Mac startup disk full error.
Tell me, whether you recovered files and folders after cleaning up Mac hard drive or not? Are you facing any other problem on your Mac?
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