"start up disk is full" I have been deleting and zipping and moving files like a madwoman! I cleared my safari cache and my history (jic) what else do i do? i cant update!
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
You need to clean up serious space. Zipping a text file and saving 1 MB won't cut it. Zipping multimedia saves no space at all since they are already compressed. Clearing a Safari cache frees up less than 1% of the space you need. You need to free up many GB. Get rid of movies, photos, music. Put them on a backup drive and delete the ones on your internal drive.
If your hard drive gets too full it will crash.
You need to clean up serious space. Zipping a text file and saving 1 MB won't cut it. Zipping multimedia saves no space at all since they are already compressed. Clearing a Safari cache frees up less than 1% of the space you need. You need to free up many GB. Get rid of movies, photos, music. Put them on a backup drive and delete the ones on your internal drive.
If your hard drive gets too full it will crash.
And of course, you have to empty the Trash.
You can also try going to applications>utilities>disk utility, select (highlight) your volume from the left (default name is Macintosh HD, unless you remaned it) click the Erase tab, and click Erase Free Space button.
sanjampet wrote:
You can also try going to applications>utilities>disk utility, select (highlight) your volume from the left (default name is Macintosh HD, unless you remaned it) click the Erase tab, and click Erase Free Space button.
I don't think that will help over simply emptying the trash as earlier suggested. It will simply take longer.
Much longer!! 😉
what is a start up disk and why is it full?
