Full Start Up Disk

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ashleyW

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I have been a PC user up until this year when I got a macbook pro for Christmas. I have not put much else besides pictures and a few programs on it. I randomly get the "start up disk is full" message when I am doing simple things like using Word. What is going on? How do I fix this problem?
Thanks,
-Ashley
 
01. Click once on the upper right 'Desktop' hard disk drive icon.
02. Select the 'File, Get Info' menu item ('Command I').
03. Note the 'Capacity:' and 'Available:' values.

'... besides pictures and a few programs' - is vague. Locate the folder(s) containing the pictures and installed applications - performing the above three (3) procedure steps. Total the values to determine the amount of storage space consumed by your additions.

Also, via 'Terminal' (in the '/Applications/Utilities/' folder) - enter ...

cd /var/vm/; ls -ls

... to determine the number of, and size (in Bytes) of, 'swapfile's. Total the values to determine the amount of storage space consumed by the swapfile(s).
 
capacity: 111.47 gb
available: 2.7 GB
Used: 108.77GB on disk
picture folder: 2.02 GB
music: 359.7 MB
application folder: 7.27 GB total
The programs I have installed total around:
5.5 GB

what i found out from terminal:
total 8
0 drwx------ 10 ashleywi ashleywi 340 Feb 27 17:31 Desktop
0 drwx------ 12 ashleywi ashleywi 408 Feb 27 14:00 Documents
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 ashleywi ashleywi 68 Feb 22 19:30 Incomplete
0 drwx------ 36 ashleywi ashleywi 1224 Feb 27 13:59 Library
0 drwx------ 5 ashleywi ashleywi 170 Jan 14 16:11 Movies
0 drwx------ 6 ashleywi ashleywi 204 Dec 25 12:51 Music
0 drwx------ 6 ashleywi ashleywi 204 Dec 25 15:58 Pictures
0 drwxr-xr-x 5 ashleywi ashleywi 170 Dec 26 01:09 Public
8 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root ashleywi 60 Dec 25 10:18 Send Registration ->


what does this all mean?
 
'capacity: 111.47 gb, available: 2.7 GB, Used: 108.77GB on disk' - helps confirm your concerns, and original posts' 'Subject' (of 'Full Start Up Disk').

'picture folder: 2.02 GB, music: 359.7 MB, application folder: 7.27 GB total' - confirms that not too many files (data and applications) were added / created on your part.

The 'Terminal' result of 'total 8, 0 drwx ... Send Registration ->' was not of the '/var/vm/' folder; but, of the current users' Home folder.

Navigate to the '/Users/' folder, click once on the current users' Home folder icon, and perform a 'Get Info'. If the 'Size:' value is much larger 5 GB - you may then have to do a 'Get Info' on each of its sub folders - until the folder(s) with the excessive and / or large files is / are identified.

Go to the '/Library/' and '~/Library/' folders clicking on the respective 'Logs' and 'logs' folder, and perform a 'Get Info' on each. Open each folder (and all respective sub folders) and view all the log files. Note if any are quite large. Log files under 100 KB are common; log files in the MBs or GBs are uncommon.
 
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