![]() ![]() The app also does an amazing job showing you other large uses of space if my guess is wrong about documents and photos being your major space allocations. Worst case - you can get an application like Daisy Disk (paid on the App Store, but a free trial from their web site - which has the bonus feature of letting you run a scan as administrator) and it makes it very simple to purge these temporary files sooner if you need. However, a simple select-and-delete won’t get you that far. ![]() Why does my mac not have free space even after I delete files? Knowing what eats your storage space can give you insight on how to free up space on MacBook Pro or Air.Only files that you mark as Always keep on this device have the green circle with the white check mark. Just right-click the file and select Free up space. ![]() If you need more space, you can change the file back to online only. ![]() Keep in mind, that after you delete files, macOS will keep space allocated / file content around for a short time as local snapshots or local time machine backups, so you will want to either thin the local snapshots or wait a day for them to age out. You can open a locally available file anytime, even without internet access. Under the category that you want to manage, click. Yes - when you untick the check mark for Photos or Documents (likely the two largest items of iCloud space) you are asked if you want to keep a local copy (which you _don’t want to do) or just let the items live in the cloud (which you want - at least temporarily).Ĭhoose to delete the local copy and then you will have the files only in iCloud. To summarize, we listed all possible solutions to free up startup disk: 1. Manage storage through Google One On your computer, go to Google One. ![]()
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