I have installed more RAM in my laptop because I'm always getting messages of my disk being full but I don't know why this is. I've almost nothing saved onto my laptop - saving everything to external drive instead - but this hasn't helped either.
How do I go about erasing my hard drive?
How do I go about erasing my hard drive? I can't do it using disk utility. Is there another way?
Why not use the smart search feature to tell you where the movies are? Set the Kind field to Movie.
Yes. You are essentially creating aliases but in most cases what you do to the alias affects the original file... but doesn't a Smart Folder just create aliases or links to the original files?
See The Smart Mac: Smart Folders in OS X — Tech News and AnalysisIt’s important though, to realize that these Smart Folders do not actually represent copies of the content, but merely virtually link to them. If you delete a file out of a Smart Folder, you’ve also deleted it from its original location.
Good idea and it's probably the best course of action but with that little free space left it might be difficult to get the clone completed. I certainly expect CCC to be slower than it normally would be.It seems like it would be a good idea to clone the boot drive to a clean 1TB drive with CCC first, and then do some cleanup, moving or deletion.
Seems like the first step would be to find something really big that is not wanted and delete it. Is that possible in this situation?