Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

storage space

  1. cosmo811

    200GB 'hidden space' in DaisyDisk

    Hi there, I'm trying to clean up my MacBook Pro's drive. I've transferred a bunch of the bigger items like games and videos over to my external SSD. I've run a DaisyDisk scan to see why I somehow only have about 290GB free of the 512GB internal SSD, and DaisyDisk says there's 212.8GB of...
  2. Whitney Borchers

    iPad Major storage issue- 32gb iPad brand new no space

    First off I want to say that I’m not very savvy with all of this so please speak in terms an idiot could understand lol. So I bought an iPad about 3 weeks ago. It’s a 7th generation 32gb. Looking back, I wish I wouldn’t have bought a 32gb...I already know I’d like more storage than that. But...
  3. R

    Home says I have 26gb but only 16gb inside?

    Ok, so I've run into the problem of the dreaded 'Phantom Files'... I've recently done a big spring clean on my Macbook Pro running el Capitan 10.11.6 I've clicked on get info on my mac home icon and it says 26.gb, but when I click through and click get info on all the associated files, only...
  4. wyntormoon

    iPod touch ipod Touch Storage

    So I had a similar question on my new ipad Pro 10.5 inch and everyone was super helpful. We are thinking of getting our daughter who is six an ipod Touch in 32GB, just wondering about how many apps we can put on it? I think her old mini ipad had about 30 on a 64gb, and still had space. There...
  5. A

    Need to solve Out of Storage Space on IMAC

    My 2013 imac running El Capitan 10.11.6 is out of storage. It has a 1TB internal hard drive and has only 3GB free. Most of it is Other and Photos. i've deleted what i could. Interesting that when i delete from Photos, it is the yellow "Other" that decreases in size. For work, i export...
  6. U

    Doesn't give me storage space although I deleted tons of files and uploaded files to Dropbox.

    Hi, my 1.11 TB storage is pretty much full, and I got message "your disk is almost full." So I started deleting GBs of files or uploaded tons of files to Dropbox to make space storage. But it still shows I have 1GB or less free space in storage. Of course, I emptied trash can, deleted caches...
  7. gareo1mac

    Not Enough Space iPhone Backup to iTunes

    I need to get a new iPhone, and I need to do a full iTunes backup to my computer (of my current iPhone) in order to restore everything correctly on my new phone (right?). But my laptop does not have enough storage space. How can I get around this issue and do a full backup to an external hard...