Fix It Space! Mac OS
Clean Up Your Startup Disk with MacKeeper. Now that you know how to clear space on Mac, sit down and get ready to spend hours on it. Yes, reviewing junk files manually can take hours, but there’s a hassle-free way to do that in seconds. We recommend trying MacKeeper, a quick and safe tool to free up space on Mac. Check the available storage space on your Mac to ensure at least 30 GB available storage. Otherwise, you will need to remove some content from your Mac to clean up the storage space. If you don't have an idea how to clean up your Mac. Steps to fix Mac OS X low disk space with EaseUS CleanGenius Run a cleanup software program, such as EaseUS CleanGenius to delete unused system files and logs that may be taking up space on your Mac OS X hard drive. With a few clicks, it can quickly scan your Mac OS X drive for unused system folders and erases them.
If you have some basic unix skills, deleting files should be easy otherwise you may be risking data loss by trying this method.
Boot to single user mode holding cmd-s after powering on the computer. KB HT1492 and type the following command making sure there is a space before -uw and the /
mount -uw /
Now you are free to delete whatever you want (including system files, be careful!) Your home folder is located at /Users/
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I've found that when the computer gets in this bad of shape, the following commands free up a few GB nicely.
rm -rf '/Library/Application Support/iDVD'
rm -rf '/Library/Application Support/Garageband'
Most people rarely use this additional content and it can easily be reinstalled from the original install discs or iLife disc. It should give you about 3GB of space back, plenty enough to boot the computer and get back to a GUI for you to move your media off onto an external hard drive.
Apr 17, 2011 12:49 AM
Tip & Tricks to Fix Mac Installation Failed/Stuck/Frozen/Slow Errors
If your Mac is unable to install macOS Big Sur or freezes on installing, you can try to fix it with the following tips. There is no guarantee that each tip works on macOS update problems. But it covers the common measures when Mac users fails to install new macOS, hopefully any of these tips will work for your macOS installation problem.
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1. Shut down your Mac and wait for some time. When a new OS releases, a massive number of people will go to download and install the updates in a snap. As a result, the downloads and installation will be very slow with the large file and many people doing the same thing at the same time, and even fail during the process. What you should do is to wait for the server becoming less busy. According to Apple system status page, macOS Software Update issue has been resolved. Now you should download the macOS Big Sur update file faster and install it without seeing 'An error occurred while installing the selected updates'message.
2. Go to Mac App Store and open updates. If your Mac install stuck on Apple logo, gray/white/black screen when you were installing an App, you can go to Mac App Store to find this app and open the updates to survive from the macOS installation stuck situation.
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3. Download & install the combo update. The Mac App Store isn't the only place to download macOS from. When your encounter problems on macOS Big Sur installing, you can try to download the combo macOS update from the Apple official site because the macOS installation package downloaded from Mac App Store may only include the essential files for your Mac update, instead of the combo updater with all the files required to update to macOS.