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    System takes up 112 GB of storage!? Need help.

    Hello, hope you are doing good. I went to About This Mac and checked Storage. It says that the System takes up 112 GB of space on my internal SSD. I have a 2017 iMac with interal SSD and the latest High Sierra version. I have very little stuff on my computer. A few big apps but they just take...
  2. hooks

    Tips on optimising for 256 GB storage

    Prefix: I've been a Mac user for 10 years now, even sold the machines. I am aware of how external HDs and cloud storage work. I'm in the market for buying a new (second hand) MacBook Pro, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to get used to only 256 GB of storage space on my machine. Apple's...
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    Macbook Air suddenly frees space

    Hi :) I restarted my MacBook Air 11" and suddenly I noticed I have almost 30GB of free space. Originally I had only 5-7 GB of free space. How come I suddenly have 30GB just after one restart? I did not change any settings. I do not have iCloud synced on purpose so I don't lose unnecessary...
  4. arar

    Universal Supergun - Fast-paced arcade racer

    Supergun is a fast-paced arcade racer with simple controls, retro-styled 3D graphics and nice electronic music. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/supergun/id1377253518?l=de&ls=1&mt=8
  5. MP39

    PCIe Expansion into Media Bay

    With so many people not using DVD Media Bays as much on their Mac Pros and looking to expand HDD/SSD storage etc., I was curious if there was a solution that exists out there to expand PCIe bays into the media bay? I realize there are external chassis solutions available, but they all seem to...
  6. lennart18

    Bootcamp shows less free space than it actually has!

    Hi Guys, I want to install win10 on my MBP 15 2016 with 512GB SSD. I want the windows partition to have 100gb but bootcamp doesn't allow me to do this because of too little free space. But that is wrong, I have almost 300gb free! What can I do to create my 100gb partition. And sorry for my...
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    memory rapidly reducing and copy paste problem since using ditto command in terminal

    hi, I used sudo ditto command in terminal to copy a folder. I saw that nothing was being copied in the paths I chose and I quit terminal while it was still doing the ditto... I didn't know how to terminate the command itself. ever since my memory is rapidly lowering. for example it is 15.46 gb...
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    Old Mac HD Space

    Hi there, I have a Macbook Air from around 2013 (which is not that old, come on...) and I want to partition the HD to install Windows. Unfortunately I only have the 128GB SSD HD which doesn't give me much space so I've been trying to find space wherever I can. I think I can still get some 15 GB...
  9. RootBeerMan

    The Astronaut Who May Just Get Us To Mars

    This is a truly heartening story about one man's quest to create the propulsion system that may well be what gets us to Mars. Chemical rockets are just too primitive and underpowered. His plasma engines may just do the trick. He's living his dream and may help us fulfill ours...
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    Macbook Pro Says I Have 64gb of Apps but it can't find them

    My macbook is saying it's nearly out of space. Says I have 64gb of Apps, 19gb Audio, 19gb Photos and 12gb Movies but I don't have anything on here. I've emptied trash and restarted several times. All my documents, photos etc... are on an external hard drive and music is on the cloud.
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    NO SPACE LEFT ON MY MAC!!!!!!

    So, I have a 2014 Macbook Air and I only have 10gb left out of my 128GB SSD and I don't know why. I've constantly been deleting things and I'm pretty sure i've deleted everything expect my most important files but still, there is 118gb worth of stuff on there. WHY!!!! I went everywhere in the...
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    iPhone 6(S)/Plus How to move media to iCloud to free up space

    Hi My wife has an iPhone 6 16gb. Recently, the storage is getting full meaning i have to play around with deleting things from it. It mainly has photos and videos on it, so I thought an easy solution would be to get the 50gb iCloud storage at £0.79 per month and just move the photos/videos from...
  13. Owerko

    My system using too much space, 199 GB

    Hello, can someone help me?? System using 199GB of space. I dont know how to solve this problem.. Tahnks :)
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    How to move emoji keyboard on iPhone X?

    Hello, when I'm texting the inside of my thumb always hits the emoji button and the keyboard suddenly changes from letters to the emoji keyboard. Is there anyway to move the smiley button face onto the part of the keyboard where all the letters are like how it used to be? You used to be able...
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    Hard drive filled up after High Sierra upgrade on MacPro

    I had about 450GB of free space on my primary drive on Sierra. After the High Sierra upgrade it dropped to 150GB. I used OmniDiskSweeper and the files sum upto about 520GB. I have a 1TB SSD! Can't figure out what's eating the rest of the space. About the mac shows system files as 400GB. That's...
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    RECOVERING MISSING SPACE DESIGN LEGACY REVERB UNITS PRESETS

    Hello, weeks ago searching in old DVDs I used for back up porpouses, found out the presets and Inpulse Response files included in Logic 7 or 8 for the Space Design reverb. It seems Apple decided not to include them in the next updates of Logic content. There were a whole folder named "Reverb...
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    GFXBench Uninstall Guide

    If you installed GFXBench and GFXBench Metal to test your new system, you might not be aware that it leaves over 1GB of install files behind when you delete it. These are located at: GFXBench GL: /Users/<user_name>/Library/Containers/net.kishonti.osx.GFXBench/Data/Library/Caches/Kishonti...
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    iPhone [Paid][GAME] The Last Journey of the Kormet

    Control the battle angel with side movement Kormet and take it back home in its last trip through different worlds with different rules. Fight against the unknown and learn what each of the blocks of the game does. - More than 50 different levels. - Cut, control space and time and and...
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    Macbook out of space and won't start. Please help

    Ya, I really messed up and let Macbook get down to essentially no space left and now can't start. I've tried the safe start, while holding shift after starting but with no luck. The computer starts up fine and get the the sign in but makes it about 80% of the load bar and it shuts down/goes...
  20. LordQ

    Purge iCloud Photo Library for space?

    Hi guys. I found something odd with my storage on iCloud Photo Library—my phone is set to keep originals which are 277 photos and 0 videos, taking up 703MB of storage. The odd thing is that my iCloud space says my Photos are taking 1.1GB which does not match what the local storage reports. I...