Lightroom cannot start because there is not enough room on the hard drive named “Macintosh HD” this is my internal hard drive....Please help!!!
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How large is the internal drive, and how much free space is available? You can do a Get Info on the icon for that hard drive in order to get those values - they're shown as "Capacity" and "Available".
All Macs need 10-15% of the total HD available to run well, using Don's advice use this rule of thumb and your machine should start working OK again. Media tends to use the most space with photos, music and movies. I would recommend moving your media libraries to FW 800 external HDs.
Roger
Hello Don & Roger,
I have a 500Gb HardDrive of witch 5.2Mb is available only. I have a 2Tb External Hard Drive which houses all of my files ( photos, music, documents, etc.). I have added Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS 5, HDR Express, TeamViewer, OnOne’s Software: Photo Suite 5.5.3 & Perfect Layers to the original software and apps that came this this iMac.
every program worked just fine until I did my last software update about 3 days ago. I installed an update for Photo Suite 5.5. I guess what I don’t know how to do on a mac is how to clear temp or cache files, find and remove older versions of program updates, cookies, temp internet files, etc. What I’m trying to say is that I do not have enough files that I have saved to this hard drive for it to be almost completely full.
I have all off these programs and a hole lot more installed on my pc laptop with 4 times the amount of files that I have on my mac, and It only has a 320Gb hard drive. And I have never encountered this problem on my pc.
I guess I just need help how to figure out to clear my HD of unnecessary files and data.
Thanks,
Maribel😕
5.2 MB is certainly not enough free space. It is still not enough free space even if you meant GB instead of MB. Your hard drive is in great need of cleanup. You must increase the free space to around 50 GB before the system will run well. I suggest you find files to either move or delete to make this so.
A tool I would suggest to help you find the largest files and folders is OmniDiskSweeper.
Once you increase your free space I strongly suggest your repair your disk with Disk Utility while booted from the install DVD for your Mac. I am not speaking of repairing disk permissions here. Running the free disk space so low greatly increases the chances for disk corruption.
Allan
Be aware that with Lightroom you do not have to have the Library on the same disk: move the whole library to a separate disk (in Lightroom) This should free a lot of space on your HDD. Then do a Safari Reset (safari menu) which cleans all Safari caches. Clean all caches in the system (Cleanmymac, or Onyx, or .... a lot of Apps available).
I find cache cleaning to be a red herring when it comes to freeing up disk space because the system only fills the space gained once you start using the computer again. All it does is reduce performance until the cache has been refilled again.
As for CleanMyMac, in the testing I have done of it I have found it to be both dangerous and ineffectual when it comes to clear out disk space.
Rather then attempting to use any of the so called cleaning apps, I highly recommend that cleaning be done by the user using a tool to tell them where disk space is being used such as OmniDiskSweeper.
Allan
Hallo Alan, you are right. But... I know several people, who in 3 years never did cache cleaning.... If you do cache once in a while, indeed it does not bring much. But I couldn't suggest that...
There are also people who do 2 or 3 VM's and let the VM's (which is just one file per VM) on the disc, these files being around 30-60GB and not exclude them from the TM.
My wife even has never emptied the Trash...
OmniDiskSweeper is a good tool, discipline is even better.
See you on the next help..
Lex
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