Hello, first of all I hope this is the right place to post this. I don't know much about computers and I am hoping for some guidance.
Last month I got my first Mac, a 20" iMac with 2 GB memory and 750 GB hard drive. I am happy with it but I am having a problem.
I have a large document that I am working on in Word. The document has many links to data I have in an Excel file. It appears that these links take up a lot of memory, because I have reached the point where when I try to save the document I get an error message saying the hard drive is full. The Word document is 580 KB and the Excel document is 5.5 MB. The Word document will need to get much bigger before I am through with it.
How can I continue to work on these documents? Can I buy an external hard drive and work on them through that drive? And if so what size should I get?
Thank you for any help! I really need to get this resolved.
ETA: This is the error message I am getting:
The disk is full trying to write to “Macintosh HD”. Free some space on this drive, or save the document to another disk. Try one or more of the following: *Close any unneeded documents, programs, and windows. *Save the document on another disk.
Last month I got my first Mac, a 20" iMac with 2 GB memory and 750 GB hard drive. I am happy with it but I am having a problem.
I have a large document that I am working on in Word. The document has many links to data I have in an Excel file. It appears that these links take up a lot of memory, because I have reached the point where when I try to save the document I get an error message saying the hard drive is full. The Word document is 580 KB and the Excel document is 5.5 MB. The Word document will need to get much bigger before I am through with it.
How can I continue to work on these documents? Can I buy an external hard drive and work on them through that drive? And if so what size should I get?
Thank you for any help! I really need to get this resolved.
ETA: This is the error message I am getting:
The disk is full trying to write to “Macintosh HD”. Free some space on this drive, or save the document to another disk. Try one or more of the following: *Close any unneeded documents, programs, and windows. *Save the document on another disk.