Insufficient Disk Space

There is not enough free space on my photo library. It's estimated that i'll need at least 3.91 GB of additional free space. But, I have exactly 37.52 GB of available iCloud storage space. How do I save my photos? User uploaded file

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MacBook Air, iOS 11.4

Posted on Sep 18, 2018 8:19 PM

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Sep 19, 2018 3:47 PM in response to SarahFromDQ

This shows that you have a very small capacity drive (120 GB) and only have 2.78 GB available. So you will need to do some cleaning up/deleting files or pics. My suggestion is to get an external hard drive and put all your pics, videos and other space hogging files on it so you gain some needed space on your drive. If yours gets even closer to being full, it will stop working alltogether.

Sep 19, 2018 8:35 AM in response to SarahFromDQ

Highlight your hard drive icon on the desktop and hit the Command and i keys. the resulting get info window will tell you how large the drive is, how much space is used and how much is available.


As a general recommendation, you need to always keep a minimum of 10 - 15 GB of empty space at all times for the OS to be able to work properly and efficiently. So, if you want to add 4 GB of photos, you need to have 20 GB available.

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