Hi Susan, Like you, I keep my larger files, such as movies, photos etc on externals - even loaded my itunes on a separate hard drive which is still internal (but I have those spare drive spaces in my MacPro) I just have my work files on the SSD and if they get too big, I then transfer them onto an external HD. Thing is it never used to happen so often as it does now. I can do a restart and get 5gb spare back on the hard drive, whereas before doing the restart I would have maybe 200mb. I would clear the cache before restarting, but it only gives me back say 300mb. One day I just happened to glance at the capacity of the HD (showing on the bottom of the finder display) and I watched it going down and yet I was not using my computer at all. Maybe I have a haunted MacPro !!
I just put up with it until I thought about asking WAMUG today. Yes I am speaking of HD memory and not RAM. I have 16gb of RAM and that seems to work ok for me. I thought there maybe something wrong with the SSD, but I have always found HDs either work or fail. It did not seem normal to me either. Guess I’ll put up with it until towards the end of the year when hopefully Apple will offer a great Mac Pro. Out of interest, do you think it wise to rebuild my Mac ? I’m guessing it will work with the new OSes for the next few years. Cheers Jewels > On 28 Feb 2019, at 3:30 PM, Susan Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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> -- 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>
