Hi Walter, I prefer to have my Photos & iPhoto libraries & iTunes library on my Macs and not running them from an External Drive. But some people do so successfully.
The absolute VERY minimum free space some say is 15%... I would NEVER recommend any of my clients, friends or WAMUG people run their Macs at 15% available space. I prefer to have at the very least 25% available space on my Macs. Macs running latest Operating systems need a lot of free space to run well and fast. ‘Lean & Mean’ is the way to have a Mac operating at its maximum ;-) So Walter your Mac’s HD is very close to the 15% (150GB). The unneeded language localization files will give you probably 1-2GB extra. I would then run WhatSize app to give you details of where the used is being used. It’s a good starting point. Uninstall old applications you haven’t used & never will again, archive mail attachments & years old mail. Make sure the Trash is empty, the Download Folder is empty. Only the HD and ‘One’ folder on the Desktop. ‘That One Folder’ on the Desktop can have other folders inside it if required. There are lots of items that need regularly cleaned up & ‘culled’. Cheers, Ronni Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB > On 27 Mar 2018, at 5:19 pm, FW <whae...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Hi Ronni, > I have a question on the same subject. > My HD on the 2009 iMac is 1TB and available now is 157GB. > Enough ? Or should I look at moving iTunes files or iPhoto files to an ext/HD > ? > > I am also now looking at the language file situation. > > Thanks > Walter > >> >> >> >> >> Hi Rosemary, >> 15.2GB is nowhere near enough available space. Are you running High Sierra? >> You need to free up space ASAP, or you will be having problems. >> >> Do you have WhatSize.app version 6.6.3 (which is compatible with High >> Sierra)? >> If not you can download it from this link: https://whatsizemac.com/ >> WhatSize will show you what is taking up the space on your MBP Hard Drive. >> >> Also did you remove unneeded language localization files on your MBP. >> I always remove the unneeded language localization files from my Macs. >> I only keep All the English - English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), >> English (United States). >> If you only ever use English, there is no need to have all the other >> language files taking up valuable GBs of space. >> I use Monolingual 1.8.0 to remove the thousand of unneeded language >> localization files. >> You can check it out at this link: https://ingmarstein.github.io/Monolingual/ >> >> Run WhatSize 6.6.3 to show you details of the space use. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> >> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >> >> >>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 3:58 pm, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Ronni, >>> 500 Flash storage 15.2 GB available >>> >>> Cheers >>> Rosemary >>> >>> Rosemary Spark >>> PO Box 781 >>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>> Mobile: 0414268043 >>> >>> >>> >>>> On 27 March 2018 at 12:43, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Rosemary, >>>> >>>> What storage do you have on your MacBook Pro 14,2 and how much Available >>>> Space? >>>> Storage 256, 512 GB, or 1 TB flash storage? >>>> Regards, >>>> Ronni >>>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>>> >>>> >>>>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 9:29 am, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi there, >>>>> I have a Macbook pro which is running out of space. Now Photos is 232 GB. >>>>> How do I safely move/copy to a hard drive (without losing stuff) and >>>>> what do I do then re backup etc. It's far too big to add to icloud! >>>>> >>>>> Also any other suggestions for slimming down (apart from obvious, >>>>> ...nothing much on desktop, emptying caches, trash; getting rid of >>>>> programmes I don't use) >>>>> >>>>> Model Name: MacBook Pro >>>>> Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,2 >>>>> Processor Name: Intel Core i5 >>>>> Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz >>>>> Number of Processors: 1 >>>>> Total Number of Cores: 2 >>>>> L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB >>>>> L3 Cache: 4 MB >>>>> Memory: 8 GB >>>>> Boot ROM Version: MBP142.0169.B00 >>>>> SMC Version (system): 2.44f1 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Rosemary Spark >>>>> PO Box 781 >>>>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>>>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>>>> Mobile: 0414268043> >>
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