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Make sure the Trash has been emptied and that all backups have been transferred to the backup drive. If you run out of free space with an HFS+ volume, then you can actually lose and/or corrupt the data on the volume. Running out of free storage space on an APFS file system may prevent you from deleting any files and possibly have lots of issues even to manually mount the volume in read-only mode to access the data if necessary while booted from external boot media. You need to always keep at least 20GB of free storage space available at all times for proper operation of macOS. The new 16" M1X MBP cant come soon enough, lol. Im not sure if that ram issue is related to the hard drive or not, but figured id mention that. I don't even attempt to edit all my 360* videos ive got piled up from the past 3 years because even when my computer was running normal it would heat up and freeze. My computer also runs out of system memory (I have 8gb of ram) from even simple tasks like having a few safari windows open. What gives? I forget what the thing was that was diagnosed to be running in the background last time. Last night I cleared over 1.3gb of space on my HD and now there's only 22mb of available space, even though I havent saved anything today/have only briefly used safari. Someone in this community helped me with the issue a couple years ago and it seemed to be better for a while but its definitely been doing it again. Over the years ive noticed my hard drive mysteriously filling up on its own.
#How to back up macbook pro manually to external hard drive full
My 2015 MacBook Pro has a 256gb HD, and its unfortunately always on the verge of being full due to my photography.