Hi Brian (and others). Another one I find a lot, that can also take up space as well (which a lot of people don’t realise) is various old iPhone/iPad backups. These can take many GBs of space as well. You can see what backups are still being stored as follows.
Open iTunes. From the iTunes menu go to Preferences. Then go to Devices. In that window it will show all backups for all devices that are used. It will also show the last date it was done as well. When you roll over the name of the device on the left side of the window, it will show model of device (e.g. iPhone 4, iPhone 4, iPad 3 etc). If there are old ones you’re happy to no longer have there, you can click onto the old one and then down the bottom right of that window click “Delete Backup”. This will then remove it from your computer. (These backups are actually stored in the Home Library - Application support), but it saves digging through buried “invisible” folders to remove them manually. This sometimes is a good way to free up a lot of space. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone XS --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <[email protected]> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the author be requested. > On 28 Feb 2019, at 4:04 pm, Brian RISBEY <[email protected]> wrote: > > Same issue here, check if your emails are being deleted. They add up over the > years and also there attachments too. > How far back do they go and do you really need them? > I had many, many thousands of them. > > > Brian Risbey > OS12.1.4 👨🏻💻☕️ > > On 28 Feb 2019, at 14:06, 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>
