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Macbook Pro M2 hard drive nearly full but nothing to delete
Hi My 14 inch 2023 Macbook Pro (16GB, M2) apparently has 459GB used of it's 500GB hard drive capacity. The storage calculator says that most of it is in my Documents. But there is nothing in there to warrant taking up that kind of space. I have emptied my trash, my Downloads folder has only...- jworms
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- macbook pro storage calculator storage space
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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200GB 'hidden space' in DaisyDisk
Hi there, I'm trying to clean up my MacBook Pro's drive. I've transferred a bunch of the bigger items like games and videos over to my external SSD. I've run a DaisyDisk scan to see why I somehow only have about 290GB free of the 512GB internal SSD, and DaisyDisk says there's 212.8GB of... -
iPad Major storage issue- 32gb iPad brand new no space
First off I want to say that I’m not very savvy with all of this so please speak in terms an idiot could understand lol. So I bought an iPad about 3 weeks ago. It’s a 7th generation 32gb. Looking back, I wish I wouldn’t have bought a 32gb...I already know I’d like more storage than that. But...- Whitney Borchers
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- help ipad ipad 7th no space storage storage space
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- Forum: iPad
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Home says I have 26gb but only 16gb inside?
Ok, so I've run into the problem of the dreaded 'Phantom Files'... I've recently done a big spring clean on my Macbook Pro running el Capitan 10.11.6 I've clicked on get info on my mac home icon and it says 26.gb, but when I click through and click get info on all the associated files, only...- rawsameats
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- delete files file hard drive advice lost files lost hd space missing files phantom storage space
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- Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
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iPod touch ipod Touch Storage
So I had a similar question on my new ipad Pro 10.5 inch and everyone was super helpful. We are thinking of getting our daughter who is six an ipod Touch in 32GB, just wondering about how many apps we can put on it? I think her old mini ipad had about 30 on a 64gb, and still had space. There...- wyntormoon
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- ipod ipod touch storage space
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- Forum: iPod touch and iPod
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Need to solve Out of Storage Space on IMAC
My 2013 imac running El Capitan 10.11.6 is out of storage. It has a 1TB internal hard drive and has only 3GB free. Most of it is Other and Photos. i've deleted what i could. Interesting that when i delete from Photos, it is the yellow "Other" that decreases in size. For work, i export... -
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Doesn't give me storage space although I deleted tons of files and uploaded files to Dropbox.
Hi, my 1.11 TB storage is pretty much full, and I got message "your disk is almost full." So I started deleting GBs of files or uploaded tons of files to Dropbox to make space storage. But it still shows I have 1GB or less free space in storage. Of course, I emptied trash can, deleted caches...- Ukochu
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- deleted tons of files deleting files doesn't decrease free space dropbox free space increase storage after deleting files storage space sync to dropbox
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- Forum: OS X Yosemite (10.10)
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Not Enough Space iPhone Backup to iTunes
I need to get a new iPhone, and I need to do a full iTunes backup to my computer (of my current iPhone) in order to restore everything correctly on my new phone (right?). But my laptop does not have enough storage space. How can I get around this issue and do a full backup to an external hard...