My start up disk is full.. HELP !!

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.

Make sure the Finder is active by clicking anywhere on the desktop. Then type (all three keys together) command + shift + delete.

That will empty the trash.

Please post some information about your hard drive. Right click on the drive icon, then select get info. A new window will open, the important numbers are Available: and Used:

Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on resolving Trash related problems. I also suggest trying Trash It! 5.1. If you still have no success then try:

My Mac Won't Empty the Trash | Easy PC Tutorials

You can't empty the Trash or move a file to the Trash

Did you copy and paste the commands or type them? Do the former. What command did the error occur?

In the Terminal you can also try copying and pasting this command:

sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash

Press RETURN. Enter you admin password when requested. It will not echo to the Terminal. Press RETURN again.

It does not delete your files. Be sure you copy and paste the command into the Terminal window.