MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) "full disk" even if I keep deleting files... Please help :-(
Hello,
Firstly, many thanks to whoever reads this and dedicates some time to help out a total novice... I have scanned through the blogs and questions but can't seem to find a solution.
I have an old(er) Macbook Pro Retina 13-inch circa 2015 running 10.11.6. Up until three days ago it worked relatively well, no complaints. Since then I'm unable to donwload a file from Safari, transfer any kind of file from external hard drives etc... When transfering a file I get "The operation can't be completed because the disk is full" and whatever file I try to download from Safari or Chrome (even Clean My Mac dmg etc) just get stuck and make the browser crash. To be fair, I have hundreds of thousands of pictures in the Photos library but apart from that no huge files that I could easily delete from the Mac. I have since then transfered around 60GB of pictures from Photos to an external drive and deleted them from my computer but even if the added "free space" seems to show in Finder, I still can't copy or download any new file (even smaller ones) and the Mac is very slow at startup (and when running more than one app at a time, Microsoft Word takes a long time to open, for instance). Very small Word files still seem to work, but noghting bigger than a couple MB. I've restarted it many many times, the "free" hard drive space shows up (around 62 GB) but also fluctuates rapidly (suddenly 40GB or 15GB then back to 62) but still I can't add new files to the Mac.
Any ideas? Please help, I use it mostly for Mail & browsers but I do use my Photos app religioulsy (739GB!). Could I move the Photos library to an external hard drive and use it that way, like I've been doing for years with my iTunes library, for instance? And why don't the deleted files make a dent on the hard drive?
Thank you! Have a nice day!
MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11
