HI Mack
Ummmm.. it's not the memory that is the issue, it's the amount of free start up disk space. Right or Control click the MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop, click: Get Info. In the Get Info window click: General Make sure you have at least 15% available disk space.
If you need to free up disk space go here; Freeing up space on your Mac OS startup disk
Viewing Mac OS memory usage and installed RAM
Get What Size to determine which files are taking up the most space.
Run Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities) and Repair Disk Permissions.
And go here for information on how to check the startup disk for any problems:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1782
Also, could you please update your profile with the Mac OS version you are running. Click the Apple logo top left in your Desktop (Apple Menu)l, then click: About This Mac. The version number will be displayed there. Please add that to your profile. Thanks!
Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit
Ummmm.. it's not the memory that is the issue, it's the amount of free start up disk space. Right or Control click the MacintoshHD icon on your Desktop, click: Get Info. In the Get Info window click: General Make sure you have at least 15% available disk space.
If you need to free up disk space go here; Freeing up space on your Mac OS startup disk
Viewing Mac OS memory usage and installed RAM
Get What Size to determine which files are taking up the most space.
Run Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities) and Repair Disk Permissions.
And go here for information on how to check the startup disk for any problems:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1782
Also, could you please update your profile with the Mac OS version you are running. Click the Apple logo top left in your Desktop (Apple Menu)l, then click: About This Mac. The version number will be displayed there. Please add that to your profile. Thanks!
Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit
Dec 10, 2008 6:02 PM
We noticed this very interesting complaint – where the hard drive is not even 1/3 full of memory. This suggests that there may be something more to it than just an annoying notification. This could be either a pop-up that promoted the installation of a Mac virus program or another hoax system optimizer like Mac Speedup Pro. To see if this method will help you reclaim some disk space we need to check the macOS System Information. Click the from your desktop. Click About This Mac. Click the Storage tab.
Amtlib.dll photoshop cc 2017. Some days ago, I found one Reddit user’s post telling the “System” taking up a huge space on Mac. It was the first time I met the Mac “System” storage problem. And it was described as follow:
Hi Mac Users, System is taking an incredibly large amount of space. I mistakenly loaded heavy video files to Numbers and the hard disk immediately filled up. Any help accorded will be highly appreciated.
After I checked my computer storage usage and I was surprised to find my “System” is also taking an incredibly huge space – 43GB of the total 120GB on my MacBook Air.
As well known, the Mac operating system usually takes up from 8GB to 13GB. So I don’t think my Mac “System” storage could be that huge, so I searched to find how it defines “System” storage for a Mac, and how to free up that storage.
What is in the Mac “System” Storage?
The “System” on your Mac storage bar stands for that space your macOS operating system used, including the system itself and the caches and cookies it generated while driving on your computer hard drive.
Sometimes, your Mac may mistakenly put other sections into the “System” storage. For instance, my mac made the mistake of failing to exclude the “Music creations” and “iOS files” (iOS backups) from the “System” storage, so that I get a huge “System” on the storage bar.
And after I clicked the Manage. button on the top left of the bar, it showed the real system storage was taking only 29.3 GB. And there were two new categories named “iOS files” and “Music creations” being separated.
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And the sum of the storage size of these three parts (System, Music Creation, and iOS Files) is 43.38GB, equal to the size of the huge System storage I showed before on the storage bar.
4 Tips to Quickly Clean Storage on Your Mac
On the storage manager page, you’ll have a detailed view of all data types with the size it used. And you can choose any large category to have a clean. And below are some usual and free methods to free up your Mac storage.
- Delete useless iOS backup files, applications, and documents.
- Transfer media files like photos, video, music, and iBooks to external disk drive or cloud. And then delete them.
- Empty your Trash bin get more free space.
- Remove your iPhone or iPad software updates on your Mac.
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Most of these methods aim to remove the larger files on your Mac to quickly free up your Mac storage. And if there is any question, please leave your comment below.