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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1816668" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>Well I live in hope that it will reach a few. The previous thread by Scoobie Newbie had 5,878 views. Admittedly this one has only had 18 views but who knows?</p><p>Anyway, back to topic. </p><p>SN, the fact that your device won't restart concerns me more than the storage issue unless they are connected in some way. My recent problem with my wife's MBP led me to do a bit of research and it seemed to me that from what I read Purge able space gets used by the system as it's required so unless you need to load a really big file there is no need to erase it. On the other hand functional problems like not restarting from the Apple menu would seem to indicate a bigger problem.</p><p>So if you have a Time Machine backup as I had for my wife's device you might like to consider doing what I did. Plug in your TM backup, boot into the Recovery Partition and restore the device.</p><p>That should solve any software issues you may have as well as removing any purgable data.</p><p>You might like to open Disk Utility first from the same menu and run First Aid first just to see if any repairs can be done but this won't fix your storage issues.</p><p></p><p>PS. If you want to try the restore issue reply and I'll give you step by step instructions for what I did.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1816668, member: 204485"] Well I live in hope that it will reach a few. The previous thread by Scoobie Newbie had 5,878 views. Admittedly this one has only had 18 views but who knows? Anyway, back to topic. SN, the fact that your device won't restart concerns me more than the storage issue unless they are connected in some way. My recent problem with my wife's MBP led me to do a bit of research and it seemed to me that from what I read Purge able space gets used by the system as it's required so unless you need to load a really big file there is no need to erase it. On the other hand functional problems like not restarting from the Apple menu would seem to indicate a bigger problem. So if you have a Time Machine backup as I had for my wife's device you might like to consider doing what I did. Plug in your TM backup, boot into the Recovery Partition and restore the device. That should solve any software issues you may have as well as removing any purgable data. You might like to open Disk Utility first from the same menu and run First Aid first just to see if any repairs can be done but this won't fix your storage issues. PS. If you want to try the restore issue reply and I'll give you step by step instructions for what I did. [/QUOTE]
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