How do I reduce the size of my Macintosh HD?
How to free up storage space manually
- Music, movies, and other media can use a lot of storage space.
- Delete other files that you no longer need by moving them to the Trash, then emptying the Trash.
- Move files to an external storage device.
- Compress files.
How do you unlock Recovery HD on Mac Sierra?
Recovery HD can get locked sometimes which is indicated by the appearance of an error message that says, “Hard Drive locked”. To get rid of this problem, simply go to disk utility, click on the hard drive then click ‘enable journaling’ to unlock the drive.
Why is there no disk space in macOS High Sierra?
In fact, macOS High Sierra manages this disk usage seamlessly without user intervention. It also purges local backups if disk space starts to get too low. However, sometimes the purging doesn’t happen to leave enough disk storage for my very large video files and I’ll get a “not enough disk space” message.
Is there a way to resize the disk on a Mac?
Copy all your data to a backup drive, then erase and repartition the disk, then move your data back (when reformatting, be sure to select the drive, not just the existing named partition, or you will end up with the same unused disk space). you will use the disklist equitment to resize the macintosh disk,never give up!!
How to reclaim disk space from’system’in macOS High?
Once my “System” disk usage is at an acceptable level, I stop deleting but you can delete all of them if you want to reclaim all of the disk space. Back at the terminal, type tmutil deletelocalsnapshots where will be one of the dates from your backup. This will be in the form of xxx-yy-zz-abcdef. Try to start with the oldest snapshot. Hit enter.
How to resize APFS container on macOS High Sierra?
You can simply go to Apple’s website and update your macOS to High Sierra. This will automatically convert your file system to APFS. Now when you know the basics of the file system, let’s learn how to resize the APFS container in the next section. Part 2.