sojoudahmad

Level 1 (5 points)

iPhone

Q: my macbook air os x10.10 it's have full storage on HD macintosh00

hi there ,i have an macbook air(mid 2012 )os x10.10 with processor 1.7GHz ,memory 4GB 1600 MHz , storage 60.7GB

it's have full storage on HD macintosh , the others section takes most of storage . i need help immediately please

MacBook Air, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Mar 3, 2015 1:42 AM

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by dominic23,

dominic23 Mar 3, 2015 4:01 AM in response to sojoudahmad
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Mac OS X

Mar 3, 2015 4:01 AM in response to sojoudahmad

About “Other”:

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867

Go step by step and test.

1. Start up in Safe Mode.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212

2. Empty Trash.

   http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806

3. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
Local backups

   http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878

4. Re-index Macintosh HD.

    This will take a while. Wait until it is finished.

    System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy

    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

5.Try OmniDiskSweeper. This will give the storage size details of the items.

   https://www.omnigroup.com/more

   Select Macintosh HD and click “Sweep Selected Drive” at the bottom.

   Delete the files you don’t want to keep.

   Be careful. Delete only the files that can be safely deleted.
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