Hi Jewels, 256gb should be fine to run your applications if you don’t store a lot of music and photos on the HD. It’s puzzling that you would be having problems with the HD filling up.
I have a MacBook with 128gb that doesn’t have any problems with running out of memory even using Office 365, photoshop and Lightroom. All of my photos and documents are kept on an external drive, except maybe for a few files I may be working on. That means my iPhoto library and iTunes library are not on the internal HD. The mysterious way your HD fills up is NOT normal, providing that like me you don’t keep large iPhoto and iTunes libraries on the main HD. Even so, a 246GB HD is quite a lot of space. Closing down applications does not increase HD space. You are speaking about memory - are you talking about your RAM or HD? Cheers, Susan. Sent from my iPad > On 28 Feb 2019, at 3:10 pm, Julie Bedford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Susan > > Apologies, I should have said - it’s only a 256 gb - I have got a 1TB SSD > which I’ve not put in as yet, as still trying to decide on whether to rebuild > the MacPro - waiting for Apple to give specs on their new MacPro later on in > the year. However, I suspect one will be > limited in upgrading the new model as like the previous recent models. I use > various applications, but when I get low, I close the apps I’m not using, but > still doesn’t make a difference. > > This didn’t happen previously, it is only really in the last year or so. > > Cheers > Jewels > >> On 28 Feb 2019, at 2:06 PM, Susan Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Julie, it would help to know the size of your HD and how much of it you >> are using for your applications and documents. Click on your HD icon and go >> to ‘get info’ which will give you that information. Then post it here so >> that people can offer practical solutions. >> >> At least a tenth of your HD space needs to be free to be able to run your >> applications. You can keep stuff such as your photos and documents on an >> external HD to free up space on your main HD. >> >> Cheers, Susan. >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 28 Feb 2019, at 1:49 pm, Julie Bedford <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Wondering if anyone has any ideas. I have a Mac Pro 2012 which has a SSD. >>> (El Capitan) >>> >>> Over the last year, I keep getting a box appear saying I’m almost out of >>> memory. I can release some by using Clean My Mac2 but it is not >>> until I do a restart will I get back all the memory available (can be >>> around 4 gb) I have watched the Mac while doing nothing and see the >>> available HD space diminish. >>> >>> It can be a bit of a pain having to do a restart in the middle of doing >>> something just to regain the HD space. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Jewels >>> >>> -- 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> -- 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>
