Start up disk is nearly full!!! How to fix?

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Start up disk is nearly full!!! How to fix?

I have 2GB hard drive on my macbook air. It keeps saying that my start-up disk is nearly full but I have hardly any files on my computer, but seem to only have 4.37GB of space on my harddrive.

I have taken all my music off and have hardly any movies....most of my space appears to be Other (23.13GB) or photos (20.89GB). I have taken most of my photos off. It is frustrating as I don't know how I can increase space available. My apps only take up 8.4GB.

Can anyone give me any tips?

Thanks

Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Mar 5, 2013 3:18 PM

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Kappy

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Mar 5, 2013 3:21 PM in response to ej91

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive

1. See Lion's Storage Display.

2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.

3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.

4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.

5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.

6. See The Storage Display.

You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.

You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.

Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

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