Freeing up space on startup disk

steckfigures · steckfigures #1 (**permalink**)

04-12-2012, 10:25 PM

Hi,

I've been getting a message stating that my startup disk is almost full and I'm not able to open up two applications at the same time. My available space is about 250-300 mg so I delete a lot of files plus all the languages except for English. Now I have 6 GB available space so that's great. Ten minutes later it's back down to 300 mg available space. nothing has changed!

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You,
Jim

gsahli · gsahli #2 (**permalink**)

04-13-2012, 02:51 AM

It's not uncommon for OS X to need/use 10GB or more of free space for temp/swap space. So, that's what happened.

TheMacMania · TheMacMania #3 (**permalink**)

04-13-2012, 05:28 AM

have you tried to partition your hard drive? if so - it happened to me - and failed i could just reinstall lion

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steckfigures #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Feb 15, 2010 Posts: 1	04-12-2012, 10:25 PM Hi, I've been getting a message stating that my startup disk is almost full and I'm not able to open up two applications at the same time. My available space is about 250-300 mg so I delete a lot of files plus all the languages except for English. Now I have 6 GB available space so that's great. Ten minutes later it's back down to 300 mg available space. nothing has changed! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You, Jim
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gsahli #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 11, 2010 Posts: 878	04-13-2012, 02:51 AM It's not uncommon for OS X to need/use 10GB or more of free space for temp/swap space. So, that's what happened.
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