Cleaning up my mackbook air

Hello guys,

I am having a problem with my macbook air.
My memory is almost full and I am trying to clean up my computer so it can work faster, I've been deleting music, videos and pictures and even some programs I no longer need but all this don't seem to be enough in order to my computer work faster and every time I click on my apple icon > about this mac > more info > storage, it shows me that I almost don't have any GBs from music, pictures, videos or apps but I have a huge amount of "other" and I have no idea what that "other" could be.

Please, can anyone help me figuring out what is this "other" and what I am supposed to do in order to clean up that as well?

Thank you

venachi said:

I am having a problem with my macbook air.
My memory is almost full and I am trying to clean up my computer so it can work faster, I've been deleting music, videos and pictures and even some programs I no longer need but all this don't seem to be enough in order to my computer work faster and every time I click on my apple icon > about this mac > more info > storage, it shows me that I almost don't have any GBs from music, pictures, videos or apps but I have a huge amount of "other" and I have no idea what that "other" could be......

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Hi Venachi - welcome to the forum!

First, you will need to provide a LOT of information: 1) What Macbook Air do you own (model, year, etc.); 2) What OS are you running?; 3) Specs on your computer - RAM, HD size, how much space remaining; and 4) What have you done so far, i.e. what programs have you used to 'clean' your computer?

Second, before doing ANYTHING else, please respond to the questions above - Dave

Along with the above - see this sticky...

http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/switcher-hangout/291480-hard-drive-storage-other-10-7-above.html

RadDave said:

Hi Venachi - welcome to the forum!

First, you will need to provide a LOT of information: 1) What Macbook Air do you own (model, year, etc.); 2) What OS are you running?; 3) Specs on your computer - RAM, HD size, how much space remaining; and 4) What have you done so far, i.e. what programs have you used to 'clean' your computer?

Second, before doing ANYTHING else, please respond to the questions above - Dave

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Thank you RadDave.

Answering your questions:

1) I don't know exactly the version my macbook but I bought it on black friday 2011

2) OS X (version 10.7.5)

3) Flash Storage (Macintosh HD) 60 GB and it remains 12.01 GB free, I'm not sure how to know how much of my RAM I have left.

4) I have the Microsoft office installed, I had realplayer and realplayer downloader installed but I deleted them, I had pretty much all the main adobe programs installed but they are all gone as well, but I did try to install photoshop Cs 5 from a website and I had to put some things on my terminal and that might have messed up my computer, but I have no idea how to fix this (if it actually damaged my computer)... ohh, and I installed probably 2 or 3 programs that were "photoshop replacers" when my PS trial expired.

venachi said:

1) I don't know exactly the version my macbook but I bought it on black friday 2011

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Check HERE to obtain information of your MBA's model information.

venachi said:

3) Flash Storage (Macintosh HD) 60 GB and it remains 12.01 GB free, I'm not sure how to know how much of my RAM I have left.

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Well, you certainly do not have much storage, i.e. 60 GB w/ not much 'free' - of course, you could consider replacing that SSD w/ a larger one? Concerning other information, just go to the Apple and select 'About this Mac' (now, I've not used OS 10.7 - came in @ 10.8 but assume that is still an option) - tell us about your RAM - more may also help?

Concerning the installed programs, you seem to have already done some 'cleaning' - may want to remove the redundant ones unless critical to your work? You might want to obtain WhatsizeMac as already suggested - will provide a lot of information on your SSD - maybe there are huge files that could be deleted?

As to 'cleaning' your computer, nearly all software options are best avoided - seems that Onyx is the only one recommended on this forum - if obtained, make sure that you DL the correct OS version. I'll stop there and let you proceed and then post back here w/ results and/or further questions. Good luck! Dave