Hi Ronni, I followed your advice and now have available 243GB. I even deleted EyeTV recordings that had already been exported into iTunes. With the Monolingual I am not sure if it has really done the job ? I was under the impression that the ticked files would be removed. Only English and some euro languages I left unticked. After clicking the Remove button it took some time and then the following message was displayed: “Space saved: 1 byte” I closed Monolingual and opened it again and all the files were still listed with the ticks in place. When I open System Preferences >Language & Region I can see the languages after clicking on the + to add more to the “Preferred languages” Is this a valid way of checking for available languages ?
Confused again Cheers Walter > On 27 Mar 2018, at 20:40 , FW <whae...@iinet.net.au> wrote: > > Just cleared download folder and then trash, now 177GB available, will attend > to your other suggestions > on w/end. > > Thanks and happy easter. > > Walter > ****************************************** > >> On 27 Mar 2018, at 18:09 , Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Walter, >> >> I prefer to have my Photos & iPhoto libraries & iTunes library on my Macs >> and not running them from an External Drive. >> But some people do so successfully. >> >> The absolute VERY minimum free space some say is 15%... I would NEVER >> recommend any of my clients, friends or WAMUG people run their Macs at 15% >> available space. >> I prefer to have at the very least 25% available space on my Macs. >> Macs running latest Operating systems need a lot of free space to run well >> and fast. >> ‘Lean & Mean’ is the way to have a Mac operating at its maximum ;-) >> >> So Walter your Mac’s HD is very close to the 15% (150GB). >> The unneeded language localization files will give you probably 1-2GB extra. >> I would then run WhatSize app to give you details of where the used is being >> used. >> It’s a good starting point. >> >> Uninstall old applications you haven’t used & never will again, archive mail >> attachments & years old mail. Make sure the Trash is empty, the Download >> Folder is empty. >> Only the HD and ‘One’ folder on the Desktop. ‘That One Folder’ on the >> Desktop can have other folders inside it if required. >> There are lots of items that need regularly cleaned up & ‘culled’. >> >> Cheers, >> Ronni >> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >> >> >> On 27 Mar 2018, at 5:19 pm, FW <whae...@iinet.net.au> wrote: >> >>> Hi Ronni, >>> I have a question on the same subject. >>> My HD on the 2009 iMac is 1TB and available now is 157GB. >>> Enough ? Or should I look at moving iTunes files or iPhoto files to an >>> ext/HD ? >>> >>> I am also now looking at the language file situation. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Walter >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Rosemary, >>>> 15.2GB is nowhere near enough available space. Are you running High Sierra? >>>> You need to free up space ASAP, or you will be having problems. >>>> >>>> Do you have WhatSize.app version 6.6.3 (which is compatible with High >>>> Sierra)? >>>> If not you can download it from this link: https://whatsizemac.com/ >>>> WhatSize will show you what is taking up the space on your MBP Hard Drive. >>>> >>>> Also did you remove unneeded language localization files on your MBP. >>>> I always remove the unneeded language localization files from my Macs. >>>> I only keep All the English - English (Australia), English (United >>>> Kingdom), English (United States). >>>> If you only ever use English, there is no need to have all the other >>>> language files taking up valuable GBs of space. >>>> I use Monolingual 1.8.0 to remove the thousand of unneeded language >>>> localization files. >>>> You can check it out at this link: >>>> https://ingmarstein.github.io/Monolingual/ >>>> >>>> Run WhatSize 6.6.3 to show you details of the space use. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Ronni >>>> >>>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>>> >>>> >>>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 3:58 pm, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Ronni, >>>>> 500 Flash storage 15.2 GB available >>>>> >>>>> Cheers >>>>> Rosemary >>>>> >>>>> Rosemary Spark >>>>> PO Box 781 >>>>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>>>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>>>> Mobile: 0414268043 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 27 March 2018 at 12:43, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: >>>>> Hi Rosemary, >>>>> >>>>> What storage do you have on your MacBook Pro 14,2 and how much Available >>>>> Space? >>>>> Storage 256, 512 GB, or 1 TB flash storage? >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Ronni >>>>> Ronni Brown’s iPad Pro 12.9-inch 256GB >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 27 Mar 2018, at 9:29 am, Rosemary Spark <arkaysp...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi there, >>>>>> I have a Macbook pro which is running out of space. Now Photos is 232 >>>>>> GB. How do I safely move/copy to a hard drive (without losing stuff) >>>>>> and what do I do then re backup etc. It's far too big to add to icloud! >>>>>> >>>>>> Also any other suggestions for slimming down (apart from obvious, >>>>>> ...nothing much on desktop, emptying caches, trash; getting rid of >>>>>> programmes I don't use) >>>>>> >>>>>> Model Name: MacBook Pro >>>>>> Model Identifier: MacBookPro14,2 >>>>>> Processor Name: Intel Core i5 >>>>>> Processor Speed: 3.1 GHz >>>>>> Number of Processors: 1 >>>>>> Total Number of Cores: 2 >>>>>> L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB >>>>>> L3 Cache: 4 MB >>>>>> Memory: 8 GB >>>>>> Boot ROM Version: MBP142.0169.B00 >>>>>> SMC Version (system): 2.44f1 >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Rosemary Spark >>>>>> PO Box 781 >>>>>> South Fremantle WA 6162 Australia >>>>>> Phone: + 61 8 6397 6822 >>>>>> Mobile: 0414268043> >>>> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
