Recent content by pillowparade

I haven't backed up in a few years because my sister took the equipment to college. But when I retrieve it and plug it in, the external hard drive will act as an extension and give me more space to turn off filevault?

But I don't understand how that can be. My hd only allows for 74 gb of space. How can the image of my files (at 56.67 gb) take up way more than half? I could never delete enough files to make room for that and turn off Filevault.

Forgive me for creating a new thread when I see that others have talked about this issue before, but I have read the posts and I still do not understand what to do. I have 74 GB on my hd, and last week, there was 15 gb free. The more I try to free up space, the less space I have. I accidentally...