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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1634867" data-attributes="member: 56379">Yes...this will happen when you let the storage get full!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> Actually...at some point you're supposed to get a warning that says...&quot;Your Startup disk is almost full.&quot;..which must have been ignored or missed!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; It looks like this:<img src="https://cdn.tutsplus.com/mac/authors/legacy/Josh%20Johnson/2012/09/11/startupdisk-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Sounds simple...right!<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />&nbsp; Except what many folks don't realize is...the Mac OS needs storage space to operate (the Mac OS maintains a &quot;swap file&quot; on the storage..HD, SSD, or flash storage).&nbsp; And without any free space...this situation occurs.Yes you could boot into the &quot;Recovery Partition&quot;...but I don't think that you can access your files to free up space this way.What I would do is...boot the computer from a bootable external drive.&nbsp; Then delete some stuff from the computers internal drive (enough so you can boot the copmputer from the internal to do more deleting).- Nick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1634867, member: 56379"] Yes...this will happen when you let the storage get full!;) Actually...at some point you're supposed to get a warning that says..."Your Startup disk is [b]almost full[/b]."..which must have been ignored or missed!;) It looks like this: [img]https://cdn.tutsplus.com/mac/authors/legacy/Josh%20Johnson/2012/09/11/startupdisk-1.jpg[/img] Sounds simple...right!;) Except what many folks don't realize is...the Mac OS needs storage space to operate (the Mac OS maintains a "swap file" on the storage..HD, SSD, or flash storage). And without any free space...this situation occurs. Yes you could boot into the "Recovery Partition"...but I don't think that you can access your files to free up space this way. What I would do is...boot the computer from a bootable external drive. Then delete some stuff from the computers internal drive (enough so you can boot the copmputer from the internal to do more deleting). - Nick [/QUOTE]

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