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My MacBook Pro has a total of 500 GB and only 50 GB free. Can I move all the documents from MacBook Pro to an external hard drive and then delete docs on the laptop to free up hard drive space? And if so, how do I do it?
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.6
Two ways come to mind:
If you need any detailed info on the above, post back. And, actually that came to more than 2 ways.....
Two ways come to mind:
If you need any detailed info on the above, post back. And, actually that came to more than 2 ways.....
Greetings wickerwoman,
We understand that you are having some difficulty managing the storage on your Mac, and we'd like to help. Begin by following the guidance found here:
Free up storage space on your Mac
Take care.
Sorry, SnickZ, but you didn't understand my question at all. I don't need to know how to clean up the drive a bit by deleting things and emptying the trash, I need to MIGRATE many, many document files OFF my MacBook Pro entirely and put on an external drive. I don't want to delete these because they are important and documents that I've paid for either classes, books or paid articles, etc. but rather TRANSFER OFF the MBP to the external drive so that it makes a huge difference in the GB left on the MBP. I'm talking about using a 2T external drive and removing at least 300MB from the computer to the drive PERMANENTLY. That's what I need to know how/if it can be done. Thanks!
Thank you Babowa, I think the dragging and dropping into the new external drive will be the way I go. And I already have a drive that I am backing up through Time Machine. But I want to set up a separate dedicated drive exclusively for the documents and perhaps photo library that I am actually removing from the computer and storing on the external drive. If I leave things the way they are with only 50 GB more storage on my computer, it won't be long at all and it will no longer work, period. It's a 2017 upgraded MBP that has all the previous MBP data on it before that one crashed and lost everything. Very helpful, even if you did go over two suggestions. Thanks.
You are welcome!
Free up disc space on MacBook Pro
