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Macbook air not enough GB for sierra update?

I received a pop up after downloading Sierra saying that I did not have much disk space left. I own a 2015 Macbook Air and mainly use it for browsing the Internet and keeping documents. Storage specs say that apps and system took up the most storage space. Any recommendations on what I should delete from the computer to create more space or advice?

Hi,

First, backup your internal drive to an external drive with either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner (free trial); in this case, I recommend TM as you’d have to download more data onto your internal HD to use CCC, and you shouldn’t do that in your situation. Do this asap as your HD may stop allowing access to it at any time.

The About This Mac > Storage report depends on the Spotlight index and may have a glitch, meaning it is too often not correct. Try rebuilding your Spotlight index, then restart: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201716

If no luck, try booting into Safe Mode: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262 and check out the Storage report. It won't show categories (everything will show as Other), but should show accurate the amount of free space out of the total capacity. Also go to Applications > Utilities > System Information > Hardware > Storage to see your total Capacity and space Available and/or click once on your HD icon on the desktop > go to File menu > select Get Info > note what it says about Capacity and Available. These should be accurate.

If you have at least 5GBs free space available, preferably 10GBs, then read on, otherwise you’re just going to have to delete/transfer as many large files (videos, pictures, audio) as possible to reach 10GBs of free space or more. Once you have enough free space available to allow you to download an app to help you out, follow the next paragraph.

Again, if you haven’t yet done so, backup in case you delete something you wish you hadn't. Then use one or more of the following to see exactly where your space is being used, then delete or transfer and then delete larger files (and empty the trash; you may also have to restart for the extra free space to show up) until you increase the available space to at minimum 10GBs and that will do as a stopgap measure (you should optimally leave more than that free). Do not transfer/delete anything unless you're sure of what it is, and not something the OS needs:

https://www.omnigroup.com/more (OmniDiskSweeper)

https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net (Grand Perspective)

https://www.derlien.com/downloads/ (Disk Inventory X)

最後更新：2017-11-09 02:28:22

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