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On the “Storage” Tab under “About this Mac,” you’ll see a breakdown of your hard drive’s contents on a horizontal bar.

If you decide you to stay with your current drive, try these tips to make the decluttering process easy and efficient. Hard drive replacements can significantly extend the life as well as improve the performance of an aging MacBook Pro, or iMac. If you’re interested in upgrading to a larger hard drive, check out my earlier post on solid state hard drive upgrades. The next step is to decide whether you need a new, larger-capacity hard drive or whether you want to take steps to reduce the disk space you’re using on your current drive.

If you’re using more than 75% of your hard drive, you are running out of space. This tab will show the total amount of space you have free relative to the total capacity of the hard drive. Go to the Apple logo in the upper left corner of your screen.So how can you find out if you are running out of space? The first step is to know how much space you’re using of your Mac hard drive’s total capacity. Just as you can outgrow your house, so too can you outgrow your laptop’s hard drive. It’s a place where you store your things, your digital belongings. Your startup disk or internal hard drive is a lot like your house. You may begin to see warning messages that “Your startup disk is almost full”. ? Could anyone please give me line by line code to do this? Or otherwise is there any other way I can start my Mac up again? I need it for Uni desperately.Running out of disk space on your MacBook Pro or iMac? You may notice a slowness when running programs, accessing files or saving documents. How do I navigate to the downloads folder and actually delete the files So finally, I felt like I had to delete files using the single user mode, but I have no idea about the entire UNIX system so I am really stuck.įirst of all I didn't get the log into your root account bit at the start because mine just went straight to the terminal like black page and so I mounted the disk so that it was writable with the sudo /sbin/mount -uw / code. Then I tried to boot into safe mode which still didn't allow the bot sequence to finish.įinally I went into single user mode and run the code: fsck -fy and the hard drive was fine. I reset the nvram (pram) multiple times and it still wouldn't start. And I tried to reinstall Yosemite but couldn't because of the lack of free space needed. I have gone into recovery mode with cmd R and verified and repaired my Disk which wasn't even damaged in the first place. Now when I go to turn my MacBook Pro (2012 model, 13-inch, 4gb ram, 500gb hard drive) on it gets stuck on 50% of the load bar and it simply will not budge from there. Ok so recently my Hard Drive became full and I thought that I would clear up some space eventually but I wasn't going to delete files just yet so I switched my laptop off.