Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Hello,
A few days ago, I had an alert that my MacBook Air startup disk was almost full (only around 2 GB left). I have not got around to deleting anything to free up space – but apparently there is now more free space than before (11.66 GB in fact). It looks like my Mac is deleting files by itself. I ran a full virus scan and nothing came up, so I'm a bit stumped, and rather worried... Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer,
MR
MacBook Air
You need to maintain 15-20% totally unused space on the drive. When the drive is overloaded, strange things do happen. The Mac just doesn't run well at all in some case.
First thing you need to do is open up more space. You do that by deleting user data. If you wish to keep it you put it on an external drive or cloud storage (NOT iCloud) before deleting.
If you have an AV app, uninstall it as it's not needed. All such "helper" apps can, and often do, interrupt system processes. All of them.
You need to maintain 15-20% totally unused space on the drive. When the drive is overloaded, strange things do happen. The Mac just doesn't run well at all in some case.
First thing you need to do is open up more space. You do that by deleting user data. If you wish to keep it you put it on an external drive or cloud storage (NOT iCloud) before deleting.
If you have an AV app, uninstall it as it's not needed. All such "helper" apps can, and often do, interrupt system processes. All of them.
Thank you, I will look into that. I'd never heard about having to leave so much space empty on a drive! I'm something of a Luddite mind you... Not sure what an AV app, or a 'helper' app, is but I'm sure I can find out. :)
"AV" = Anti Virus
"Helpers" = CleanMyMac or any app that professes to make your Mac run better.
Thank you so much...
Files deleting themselves?
