If this describes you, go to Finder, hit Command-Shift-Delete and don't look back. Lazy users who rarely empty their trash can have gigs and gigs of useless clutter eating up their disk space.Įmpty your trash for a quick storage grab. The quickest, easiest way to get your morbidly obese startup drive to drop a few pounds is to empty the trash. Your computer is crying out for help and you need some quick victories to bring it back from the brink. That error message that popped up on your screen is a 911 call. The cost sucks, but the two alternatives are buying a new machine and deleting important data. If you can afford it, grab a terabyte or two so you'll be set for a while.

If you've got a decent drive lying in a closet or desk drawer, now is the time to grab it. Where do you even start?īefore we jump in and start cleaning up your startup drive, you're going to need a secondary storage drive. Now you have no choice, you have to find ways to trim the fat. You tell yourself that you need everything on it, but you know it's not true. You used to treat your Mac like gold, but these days it's old, slow and full. The cold hard truth is that you got sloppy. Your computer has reached the end of its limits and you don't have the cash to drop on a new one. An unwelcome window that popped up out of no where to inform you that your startup disk is full. Your startup disk is almost full, now what?

Macbook saying disk full