What is my best solution for creating space on startup disk?

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What is my best solution for creating space on startup disk?

So, I'm a novice with Apple...novice in computers general actually.

I have about 58GB of music in iTunes and 85GB of photos in iPhoto- my two favorite things in life. I own a Time Capsule and it is set to do backups on my MacbookPro. My problem is that I have been getting "startup disk is almost full" notifications and have been trying to figure out how to create space without losing my data. How do I accomplish this? How do I know that Time Capsule has it if i delete it on my laptop and how do I get to it? I'm a little nervous to do anything but need the space.

Time Capsule-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 1, 2013 6:52 PM

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Kappy

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Sep 1, 2013 6:54 PM in response to bshort79

Replace your hard drive with one that has a larger capacity.

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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nbar

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Sep 1, 2013 6:55 PM in response to bshort79

See the 'More Like this' Pane, specifically Pondini's answer in : Startup disk drive is almost full. Need to release some space there.

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