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My MacBook Pro has 92.84 GB capacity. I get messages that the startup disk is full even though i am not using heavy graphic files or creating graphic design in InDesign. I transferred about 5.2 GB of files to an external hard drive (again), regularly reset Safari but wonder how my hard drive is getting so full?

Programs such as InDesign require about 10% free hard drive space regardless of size. This 10% serves as a “scratch disk” While the CPU processes the image. Downloaded movies and images will take up a lot of space and music can do the same.

You should always dedicate a partition to “swap” on your computer. Swap should always be about twice as large as your RAM amount.

You need to understand what is taking up all of startup disk space on your Mac. Then clean up your startup disk space based on the following ten aspects.

  1. Clean up the cache file on Mac
  2. Delete unnecessary language packs
  3. Delete the old iTunes library backup
  4. Remove old iOS backups
  5. Remove iOS software updates
  6. Remove unnecessary applications
  7. Clean up your photo library
  8. Clean up your downloads, movies, and music folders
  9. Clean up your desktop
  10. Empty out the trash can If you find it difficult to clean these ones manually, you can download some Mac cleanup tools (such as my recently used iMyMac’s Mac Cleaner software) to help you clean up these things. Read More：‘‘‘Startup Disk Full on Mac, Full Solution in Here!’’’