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My Start up Disk is almost full. When I checked it shows Yellow which is "other" files. What is that? How do I get rid of it?

What type of files are yellow and say other in my start up disk?

Posted on Aug 5, 2013 12:53 PM

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Posted on Aug 5, 2013 12:56 PM

What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?- Apple Support Communities


Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive


1. See Lion/Mountain 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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Aug 5, 2013 12:56 PM in response to Tlcpeach

What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?- Apple Support Communities


Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive


1. See Lion/Mountain 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.

My Start up Disk is almost full. When I checked it shows Yellow which is "other" files. What is that? How do I get rid of it?

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