Need help managing fusion drive on Imac.

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Need help managing fusion drive on Imac.

New to me Imac 27" running Yosemite, fusion drive with 128GB SDD and 1TB mechanical. I get the basic premise of the setup, however at this time with the OS and CS5 apps, the SDD is full. Have ongoing 'insufficient disk space' errors.

Need to map such things as Dropbox and Google Drive to the mechanical drive, also have continual 'scratch disk full' error on using Photoshop.

I'm sure this is NOOB stuff, so apologies in advance.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 10, 2015 7:50 AM

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rkaufmann87

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Mar 10, 2015 8:02 AM in response to Dr. Shafty

Leave it alone, DO NOT messing with your FUSION drive, it needs no special care, maintenance or managing. It will take care of itself!

Also if your computer is less than 3 months old you are entitled to 3 months of complimentary AppleCare telephone support. This would be a good opportunity to use it. You can contact them by clicking AppleCare Contact Info

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Dr. Shafty Author

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Mar 10, 2015 9:01 AM in response to rkaufmann87

This is older Imac. Don't want to mess with the drive, just want to map apps to the mechanical drive, such as Dropbox, and Google Drive. Also, continual issue with Photoshop scratch disk.

thanks

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babowa

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Mar 10, 2015 10:08 AM in response to Dr. Shafty

I don't think you can - at least that is what I was told when I had one for just over a week (returned the iMac due to other problems and opted for a replacement with a regular hard drive) as it does those things automatically:

Mac mini (Late 2012 and later), iMac (Late 2012 and later): About Fusion Drive - Apple Support

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