Hello!
My macbook air is very recent, it's the mid 2013 model. It has 4GB of storage, and 121 flash drive. Very minimal files are on the computer itself, and I backup most of my files to an external hard drive with ample space. Yet, my computer is close to being full and it seems the majority of it is filled with backups. How can I delete these backups/make more space?
Thanks!
MacBook Air (11-inch Mid 2013), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
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.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
too much music and local snapshots.
attach an external HD for Time Machine, back it up, removing the local snapshots.
See here for answer about what is taking up space:
and here:
http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
Seen in your "about this MAC" under storage as "OTHER
There is a tiny, underused slot on your Mac that you can use all the time, its the SDXC slot. This slot can hold SD cards with as much as 2 TB of information, effectively quadrupling your hard drive size. Great place to store movies, extra pictures or music. IDK why no one ever talks about it
How can I make more space on my mid june 2013 macbook air?
