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    Start Up Disk Full... Please Help guys

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by chaud84, Dec 16, 2008.

  1. chaud84

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    Hey all i am new to mac.. i recently go the mbp, late 2008 model.. i have 250gb hd. I dont play games and listen to music, so i only watch movies only. my movies are about 80gb. wen i click on get info on the mac hd it says free space 120gb, used 119gb. i always get a start up disk full msg and my torrent wont download cuz it says disk full too.. things just arent adding up. can anyone giv me any suggestions or help? thx in advance guys.
     
    chaud84, Dec 16, 2008
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    Sounds like your HDD is full. What is on it?
     
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    What does Disk Utility say about your hard drive?
     
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    I know for sure thats its not full cuz wen i go to boot camp assistance it allows me to make up to 115gb for my bootcamp partition
     
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    Are you by any chance confusing MB with GB? And show us a screenshot of your HD info window.
     
    Budding, Dec 16, 2008
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    Sorry for being stupid but what is GB? and how to do take screenshot on mac? :)
     
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    Take a screen shot by pressing command-shift-4, then press space bar, then select the window you wish to capture. A photo called picture 1.png should appear on your desktop.

    MB = megabyte, GB = gigabyte (1000 megabytes)
     
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    ok after i deleted some og my dramas this is what showed on my get info
     

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    Do you still get the error when you restart your Mac?
     
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    yea some times.... i'm abit confused.. it says available 120gb, used 112gb.. that means i onli have 8 gb left right? but boot camp allows me to make up to 115gb .
     
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    No, your HDD capacity is 232 GB, you have used 112GB.....so 232 - 112 = 120GB free space availabe.......which is why your bootcamp assistant allows you to make up to 115GB which is around 120GB partition. You got plenty of space left, get an external hard drive to keep all your large files will be the solution if your hard drive will ever get full.
     
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    if i had 120gb free than why did i get the msg my start up disk was full?
     
    chaud84, Dec 16, 2008
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    Do a permissions repair. Go to Applications>Utilities>Disk Utility, select the partition and Repair Disk Permissions. Permissions control which program can access what file, these may be set incorrectly which can lead to some strange behavior. Might want to Verify Disk in Disk Utility too to check for partitioning problems.

    Do you get the message all the time or was it just once?
     
    ltcommander_data, Dec 16, 2008
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    ok will do thx for all ur support guys :) much appreciated
     
    chaud84, Dec 16, 2008
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    I get that error too.... But my disk is actually full :|
     
    Seshan, Dec 16, 2008
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