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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1918894" data-attributes="member: 83420">[USER=414907]@Gnomac43[/USER] 1. Your Mac’s internal drive is near full2. Therefore you need to free up space on that Drive = Move data from it to somewhere else3. The somewhere else has to be readily accessible.4. The simplest solution is to acquire a fast/good quality External Drive.5. If you can afford it, a SSD is the fastest, but it also has to have a high capacity which increases the cost.&nbsp; The alternative, much cheaper, but slower option, is to acquire a rotating platter EHD.6. So, calculate how much space you need to free up on the Internal drive - then double that amount because, believe me, you’ll need it soon enough.7. Then choose a SSD or spinning EHD according to your pocket.8. Move the data off the Internal Drive to the SSD/EHD9. The chosen SSD/EHD will need to be backed to another EHD as it’s your only copy.10. You also need to backup your Mac’s Internal Drive, again to an EHD (Time Machine will do this automatically for you)All of the above is simple to understand and execute and does not involve iCloud.&nbsp; As an addition, you may consider iCloud as a means of syncing = copying data to it if you require access to that data from other devices.Ian</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1918894, member: 83420"] [USER=414907]@Gnomac43[/USER] 1. Your Mac’s internal drive is near full 2. Therefore you need to free up space on that Drive = Move data from it to somewhere else 3. The somewhere else has to be readily accessible. 4. The simplest solution is to acquire a fast/good quality External Drive. 5. If you can afford it, a SSD is the fastest, but it also has to have a high capacity which increases the cost. The alternative, much cheaper, but slower option, is to acquire a rotating platter EHD. 6. So, calculate how much space you need to free up on the Internal drive - then double that amount because, believe me, you’ll need it soon enough. 7. Then choose a SSD or spinning EHD according to your pocket. 8. Move the data off the Internal Drive to the SSD/EHD 9. The chosen SSD/EHD will need to be backed to another EHD as it’s your only copy. 10. You also need to backup your Mac’s Internal Drive, again to an EHD (Time Machine will do this automatically for you) All of the above is simple to understand and execute and does not involve iCloud. As an [B][U]addition[/U][/B], you may consider iCloud as a means of syncing = copying data to it if you require access to that data from other devices. Ian [/QUOTE]

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