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Mar 6, 2016 12:35 PM in response to ellie1mollyby ManSinha,What is other and what can I do about it - Apple Support
You can purchase an external storage drive or look at options such as iCloud, OneDrive or Google Drive to store your pictures
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Mar 6, 2016 12:37 PM in response to ManSinhaby Grant Lenahan,or put a bigger drive int eh machne (requires an external fist for backup)
I suggest you go to the root of the issues and browse -- dont start deleting - your users/you folder and learn what's in there.
Grant
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Mar 6, 2016 12:46 PM in response to ManSinhaby ellie1molly,I already have 200gb iCloud storage, so why am I getting the messge that 'iCloud photo library will be deleted from iCloud in 15 days'?
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Mar 6, 2016 12:49 PM in response to Grant Lenahanby ellie1molly,Hi Grant, I have tried that but what I am looking for? Thanks
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Mar 6, 2016 12:52 PM in response to ellie1mollyby Grant Lenahan,Big folders.
Where your space is going.
I'm not sure what you want to know. You appear to knot know what's using your 94GB. I'm suggesting you start looking int he right place.
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Mar 6, 2016 12:52 PM in response to ellie1mollyby my ginger,If the external drive you have, is not setup as time machine backup. You could use it to act as an extension of the internal drive. That would free up disk space and still let you use apps and such. I would still recommend a time machine backup though. This may mean purchasing another drive. http://mac-how-to.wonderhowto.com/how-to/external-hard-drive-can-help-make-your- mac-fast-again-0155502/
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Mar 6, 2016 12:52 PM in response to Grant Lenahanby ellie1molly,Ive tried looking but can't seen anything that is obvious...
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Mar 6, 2016 12:53 PM in response to ellie1mollyby ManSinha,If you have turned off iCloud storage from your phone - that is the message telling you that the photos will be deleted
Get help with your iCloud Photo Library - Apple Support
Also you can download Omni Disksweeper or GrandPerspectives -
They are small utilities that will tell you what all is taking up space on your Mac
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Mar 6, 2016 12:54 PM in response to ellie1mollyby Grant Lenahan,Well, why don't you give us a list of everything in your users folder, add it up and see what it adds to. Either that will show the answer or point you elsewhere.
So, at the first level, how big is each folder in the users/you directory?
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Mar 6, 2016 1:35 PM in response to ellie1mollyby my ginger,Here is a tutorial on iCloud. https://www.apple.com/support/icloud/backup-storage/ You would do well to use the downloads that ManSinha suggested to find out what is taking up space on you drive.
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Mar 6, 2016 1:53 PM in response to ellie1mollyby Linc Davis,For information about the Other category in the Storage display, please see this support article. If the display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
In Photos:
File ▹ Show Recently Deleted ▹ Delete All
Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation—not the mythical 10%, 15%, or any other percentage. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. 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. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space. A common waste of space is old iTunes backups of mobile devices. As illustrated in this support article, select the Devices tab in the iTunes preferences window, select the backups you want to delete, and click Delete Backups. Keep at least one backup of each device that you still use.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later.
Deleting files inside a photo or iTunes library will corrupt the library. Changes to such a library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install the app in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click anywhere in the line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
security execute-with-privileges /A*/OmniDiskSweeper.app/*/M*/* 2>&-
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any one of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad and start typing the name.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. You'll be prompted for your login password.
The application window will open behind other open windows. When you scan a volume, the window will eventually show all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.