How do you free up space on your start up disk?

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.

I use OmniDiskSweeper to find out which files and folders are taking up the most space. I then decide which need to be move and which can be deleted.

Allan

Disk Expert is also a great tool for that. It displays hidden files and Library, which are typically eat most space on startup disks, e.g. Mail caches.