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My laptop has no disk space

How can I delete disk space when it is full?

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Sep 8, 2022 6:29 PM

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Sep 9, 2022 2:54 AM in response to sumaya007

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Sep 9, 2022 9:22 AM in response to sumaya007

I have two comments to share with you. First, it is important to know that if your HD (storage) gets too full the computer can stop functioning. second, if the suggestions above do not clear sufficient space for you, the easy solution if to install an external disk. Then you can copy files over to it and then delete them from your HD to create needed space. These days external disks are reasonably priced and easily installed with vendor provided USB cables. You might have to reformat the disk though. Problem solved.

Sep 9, 2022 8:13 PM in response to sumaya007

A good solution that has worked for me is to identify what has been taking up my Disk space and what application/program does it belong to. Then I remove/delete files that I no longer use or are junk files piled up being made by multiple applications.


I recommend going to ~/library/ApplicationSupport/ Here, you can find the data stored by applications on your Mac and see if any of the App support folders are taking up much of your Disk space.


I know how weird this might sound to you, but I recommend DiskinventoryX, it is a software you can download for free that shows you all the files that's is taking up your disk space, including hidden files. Using this you can identify which are unwanted files and which are needed, and you can see what is taking up so much storage space and you have the option to delete those files manually in finder.


For more details on Disk usage, Open up Disk utility.

My laptop has no disk space

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