Advice needed from Mac experts!

[Claire]

I've just had a message pop up on screen saying my startup disc space is low on memory and I need to do something or other! What do I do??

[Keith]

I've just had a message pop up on screen saying my startup disc space is low on memory and I need to do something or other! What do I do??

hiya!

and eek! need to see how much disk space you have left

Can you select "machintosh hd" and do a properties on it?

[Claire]

Is that under finder Keith? Is so I select Macintosh HD and I get no properties option come up.

[Keith]

Is that under finder Keith? Is so I select Macintosh HD and I get no properties option come up.

hi

ok select the disk on your desktop by clicking it ... on mine it's called MACOSX but it may be Macintosh HD etc...

Once it's clicked, go to the file menu and choose "get into"

Look at how much capacity it has and how much is available

[Claire]

Ok, this is what I can see. It's says

Kind: Volume
Created: Sat 4th Aug 2007
Modified: Sat 12 July 2008
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Capacity: 111.47 GB
Available: 575 MB
Used: 110.91 GB on Disk
(119,087,222,784 bytes

Is this what you need?

[Keith]

It sure is... now the bad news is, you've got almost no space left!!!!!

Have you got tons of music or photos on there perhaps?

[Claire]

It sure is... now the bad news is, you've got almost no space left!!!!!

Have you got tons of music or photos on there perhaps?

Well itunes is 17.41 GBs and iphoto contains 379 MBs. 568 MBs in Pictures. 19.1 GB in Movies. I have Rollercoaster tycoon 3 installed plus The Sims, a couple of other small games but Poppy has a file with a shedload of DVD installed that she can watch on her ipod.

[Keith]

sounds to me like it's all those DVD files! they'll be taking up loads :/

You could always buy an external drive and move some stuff across to it, but you definitely need to move/delete somethings before you totally fill up

[Claire]

Thanks Keith. I'll give it an overhaul I think. Poppy shouldn't be putting stuff on here anyway!

[Keith]

If I can help, let me know