Macbook storage problems

[Suleiman]

Any IT wiz (khalifa) here know how to free up space on a macbook? I have a macbook air with 120 gb with only 5 gb remaining, but it shows about 90 of the used up gb is labelled under "Other".

I free up about 16 gb last night, but upon restarting it's back to 5 gb.

I know there's gonna be some chichore "macbook / apple is bad hurr durr" posts, I don't mind them, but please make them creative.

Thanks

 

[Abdul]

Get a Windows laptop.

 

[Syed1]

Burn the Mac and get a PC

 

[babajee]

Delete some of your crap.

 

[Suleiman]

Chichora pana as expected.

Jaldi say advice do, uni starts soon.

 

[BlackShadow]

Slide in a new SSD.

 

[Itachi]

Take those "movies" into a new portable hard drive and Make the mcbook clean for uni.

 

[Suleiman]

Take those "movies" into a new portable hard drive and Make the mcbook clean for uni.

That's the thing though, it says movies and "other" is different. Movies only takes up like 5 gb. I don't have those "movies" on this pure and pak saf machine.

Other is apparently cached data but I don't want to delete anything I don't know about and brick this thing.

 

[Suleiman]

Slide in a new SSD.

This will probably be my last resort as those things are $100+.

 

[BlackShadow]

This will probably be my last resort as those things are $100+.

That's the only realistic option you have. A low end 500+ gig SSD will cost you under $200, and that's a small price to pay for being far more productive in your uni days. You are a macbook user, dont act chindi like the pc crowd.

 

[Syed1]

Idk how tech savvy you are, well you are a Mac user so your tech knowledge would be about as vast as an eight year old's, but most people now store their most important docs and files on the "cloud" in places like the Google Drive. You can move some of the "others" items there. You get 15 Gb for free from Google Drive. DropBox also offers around 15 Gb and probably more if you sign up with your school email.

Best part you can access these "others" files wherever you go.

 

[blackanhyellow]

120 GB is the size of the entire SSD drive.

However after the OS and some essential software is installed you are probably left with around 90 - 100 GB.

That is still a lot of space, so you are most likely filling it with movies/ large video files or other files that are space consuming.

Your options are to:

1) delete all the extra data
2) Back up all of the extra data on to an external hard drive and delete from your laptop
3) Buy a larger SSD

 

[BlackShadow]

Idk how tech savvy you are, well you are a Mac user so your tech knowledge would be about as vast as an eight year old's, but most people now store their most important docs and files on the "cloud" in places like the Google Drive. You can move some of the "others" items there. You get 15 Gb for free from Google Drive. DropBox also offers around 15 Gb and probably more if you sign up with your school email.

Best part you can access these "others" files wherever you go.

Onedrive gives a free 1tb cloud storage to students, so that's something he can look at.

 

[Itachi]

I think main problem is, op hide the "others" files somewhere and completely forgotten about it though that is hogging up the space now.

 

[LastManstanding]

Check whether your system is creating restore points every fortnight. If it is, disable it and delete all the restore points. Will free up considerable space.

 

[Suleiman]

Good job team, we went from 5 gb free space to about 50 gb. Used terminal and a cleaning app to get rid of whatever that "other" trash was (no not that ).

Sully out.

 

[BlackShadow]

Lol at my sharafat, it is only now that I got the Khalifa reference.

 

[Abdul]

Idk how tech savvy you are, well you are a Mac user so your tech knowledge would be about as vast as an eight year old's, but most people now store their most important docs and files on the "cloud" in places like the Google Drive. You can move some of the "others" items there. You get 15 Gb for free from Google Drive. DropBox also offers around 15 Gb and probably more if you sign up with your school email.

Best part you can access these "others" files wherever you go.

99% of the programmers use MacBooks for developing.

<img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*iqqOjrK9m5gWO6rnCUqoHw.jpeg">

This is a picture from one of the conferencess. Let me know if you can locate a Windows laptop.

 

[Itachi]

99% of the programmers use MacBooks for developing.

<img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*iqqOjrK9m5gWO6rnCUqoHw.jpeg">

This is a picture from one of the conferencess. Let me know if you can locate a Windows laptop.

I'll say this as a facepalm moment.

If you want to know what the programmers actually use (actual ones who knows what they are doing), go to any stack exchange site and ask. You'll get your answer.

 

[TM Riddle]

Delete the haram content.
Problem solved

 

[CricketCartoons]

I'll say this as a facepalm moment.

If you want to know what the programmers actually use (actual ones who knows what they are doing), go to any stack exchange site and ask. You'll get your answer.

Only poor programmers use windows laptop. Those who can afford always prefer macbooks.

 

[Itachi]

Only poor programmers use windows laptop. Those who can afford always prefer macbooks.

Who said anything about windows? Windows is a poor choice for programmer.

 

[zeusathon]

Use CCleaner or CleanMyMac to wipe out un-necessary stuff.

Add SSD or External Drive to expand space.

Delete iTunes backup if you are keeping them.

If you are into Macs, go for pro ones atleast.

 

[zeusathon]

99% of the programmers use MacBooks for developing.

<img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1600/1*iqqOjrK9m5gWO6rnCUqoHw.jpeg">

This is a picture from one of the conferencess. Let me know if you can locate a Windows laptop.

It depends on the type of programmer you are. Also, the demographics, nature and contacts of an organization you are working with.

Many software businesses in Pakistan are powered through Azure. Microsoft hands them out free Windows/Office365 licenses and in return they ask them to develop around their ecosystem instead of Mac or Php or AWS.

Internationally speaking, most of the serious programming stuff is done over Linux or its variants. Let it be AI or Network programming. For rest, its fragmented. Some use Macs (in areas where Mac is used by default anyway) while other use Windows. Since we are in the age of cross-platform web apps so the underlying OS/system doesnt really matter these days.

 

[Syed1]

Not to burst anyone's bubbles here but programmers and computer science people are at the very borderline of folks who would be considered "technical"..... There is a reason why the computer science degree is not issued by faculty of engineering


If I recall correctly OP is doing some sort of engineering and it is surprising that he is using a Mac because most engineering software only run on PCs.

 

[Suleiman]

Not to burst anyone's bubbles here but programmers and computer science people are at the very borderline of folks who would be considered "technical"..... There is a reason why the computer science degree is not issued by faculty of engineering


If I recall correctly OP is doing some sort of engineering and it is surprising that he is using a Mac because most engineering software only run on PCs.

It’s civil engineering so aside from AutoCad and Revit which runs smoothly on Mac there’s little else to do software wise.

 

[Itachi]

It’s civil engineering so aside from AutoCad and Revit which runs smoothly on Mac there’s little else to do software wise.

So that's why there was so much "other stuff" on that Mac eh?

 

[Syed1]

It’s civil engineering so aside from AutoCad and Revit which runs smoothly on Mac there’s little else to do software wise.

Incorrect... maybe you are in a very junior year, but software to run pylon loadings and bridge designs are opitmized for PC, sure they might be able to run on Macs but they will be dhakka start. Also civil engineering also intail hydraulic modelling of water mains etc, not sure if those softwares would run in Mac.



(I'm a mechanical engineer but work for a civil firm that builds infrastructure hence I know all this)

 

[Itachi]

Incorrect... maybe you are in a very junior year, but software to run pylon loadings and bridge designs are opitmized for PC, sure they might be able to run on Macs but they will be dhakka start. Also civil engineering also intail hydraulic modelling of water mains etc, not sure if those softwares would run in Mac.



(I'm a mechanical engineer but work for a civil firm that builds infrastructure hence I know all this)

a bit show off.