My HD disk is full, does it help if ...

[igmolinav]

Hi,

My HD disk is full, does it help if I temporarily move 5 GB to the garbage can ?? - Some applications like Word won´t save a document if I don´t do anything about the "overweight" in the HD.

Best,

Ig.

 

[rdowns]

Moving files to the trash will not help unless you actually empty the trash and thus, delete the files.

Have you removed all unnecessary printer drivers and foreign language files? That might get you a gig or so of space.

 

[Applespider]

Incidentally, OS X is likely to become unstable without some HD space left to run virtual memory etc in. You should aim to keep at least 5GB or so just for normal running.

If you can't archive anything off to CD/DVD, then you might want to considering picking up an external drive that you can store things on - it's also useful as a backup.

 

[mad jew]

Applespider's right. Try to keep 8GB free at all times, if possible.

 

[Eraserhead]

External storage is dead cheap too, you can get a 300GB drive for only £87 on Amazon.co.uk