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How did that update eat so much free disk space?

Have you checked how much free space is on your startup volume after the last update? Do you wonder where it has all gone?

December 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Fitting a quart into a pint pot with sparse bundles

How to store a 400 GB sparse bundle on a volume which only has 200 GB free space – provided that you don’t actually use the space that isn’t there.

September 21, 2020 Macs, Technology

Where did all that free space go on my APFS disk?

The volume should only be half full, but installers and other software complains there’s insufficient free space. What to do.

April 9, 2020 Macs, Technology

T2M2 now helps track free space on your backup volumes

New version tells you free space available on your backup volumes, as well as checking for errors occurring during backups.

November 20, 2019 Macs, Technology, Updates

Q&A: How to defragment in El Capitan

Should you defragment files, or free space, in El Capitan, or are they even possible now?

January 12, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Disappearing disk space

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228.7 GB of my internal disk is occupied by ‘Other’. Where has this gone, and how can I reclaim it?

January 8, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Vanishing disk space

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My hard disk is running out of space, and only has 104 GB left of its original 500. How come?

September 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Strip for speed?

How can I strip OS X down to improve iMovie’s performance?

July 18, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: How much free space on a hard disk?

How much free disk space should I keep on two external hard drives, a 2 TB and a 250 GB?

June 28, 2015 Macs, Technology
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