start up full
Hi can somebody help me with my MacBook air Startup memory being full ... ?? how ever much space i free up on the hard drive i still cant seem to delete anything from the start up Memory ...Any ideas??
MacBook Air, iOS 6.1.4, 11 inch
This is a frequently asked question - lots of people with 64GB and 128GB drives run out of drive space much more quickly than they expect. If you look to the right of this window you'll see a box balled More Like This - you can get very detailed help clicking on one of them. Especially one with a green checkmark by it since that indicates that the original poster got the help she/he needed.
To get started though there are four things I always suggest:
1) restart in Safe Mode: restart and after the chime press and hold the left Shift key until the Apple logo appears. The startup will take longer than usual because the drive integrity is being checked. Also temporary files are being deleted - some of which occasionally don't get deleted on schedule as they should. This might free up some space.
2) what takes up the most space are media files: videos, music, and photos. These are things you can move to an external drive and free up lots of space quickly.
3) putting things in the trash doesn't automatically delete them. You must empty the trash - look under the Finder menu. (Don't be insulted if I've told you the obvious - it isn't obvious to lots of users.)
4) there are lots of programs that catalog your drive to show what you have (and what's taking up space). Some are free - OmniDiskSweeper is a good one. Others are shareware. I like DaisyDisk. Use one of these to look over your drive for things you can delete. And remember - deleting anything thats not in your personal drive space can be dangerous to your computer's health.