Just cleared download folder and then trash, now 177GB available, will attend to your other suggestions on w/end.
Thanks and happy easter. Walter ****************************************** > On 27 Mar 2018, at 18:09 , Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > > 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> >>> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
