I have 150 GB storage on my iCloud, but my disk on my MacBook Air is almost full. I want to upgrade to the macOS Big Sur, but I do not have enough space on my disk. Any help?
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The space you have available on icloud is irrelevant; it does not "add" to the space on your internal drive. You need to get an external hard drive and move all of your space hogging movies/videos/photos/whatever to that external. Then delete them from your internal. You need 35 GB space for Big Sur plus you always need to have at least 15 GB of empty space at all times for the OS to function properly. If you allow it to go to almost zero space available, it will simply stop functioning.
The space you have available on icloud is irrelevant; it does not "add" to the space on your internal drive. You need to get an external hard drive and move all of your space hogging movies/videos/photos/whatever to that external. Then delete them from your internal. You need 35 GB space for Big Sur plus you always need to have at least 15 GB of empty space at all times for the OS to function properly. If you allow it to go to almost zero space available, it will simply stop functioning.
Alot of unnecessary Apps, documents, video, music, pics need to be removed from the Internal Drive. Make certain the machine qualifies for the Big Sur upgrade. Especially, note the amount of Free Space on Internal Drive is Required to upgrade
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Thank you for the response. Maybe my issue is iCloud? I only have 12 GB of available storage on my disk and the update takes more than that. My storage in iCloud states that it will "move" data from the computer disk to iCloud when nesessary but it is not working. How can I manually move items to iCloud to free up disk space?
I have 150 GB storage on my iCloud, but my disk on the computer is full which will not allow me to upgrade to Mac OSBig Sur. My MacBook Air was purchased last year, any advice?
