I have an aluminium PowerBook with 500MHz PowerPC G4, 512 MB SDRAM, 18.63 GB harddrive.
I'm getting a message that says that my start up disk is full. I checked my hard drive space and I'm getting very low. I think that the only thing that may be taking up space are music and iPhoto files. I have an external hard drive that I can use as back up. Is there a particular way that I should move them off of my system or is it just drag and drop. And how do I then access them again when I need them. Will moving them affect them in any way?
Is there a way to make my external HD the primary storage for my iPhoto Library that I can still easily access.
I am very much a newbie when it comes to this stuff. That's why I like the mac platform. Any help is much appreciated. THNX
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Jump to PostIf we're just talking data, not actual program files, dragging and dropping would probably be the best, if not the only way, that you'd want to do it. So long as you're not dragging over program files, or files needed by programs, you'll be in good shape.
Jump to PostYou can use OmniDiskSweeper to help you discover where your disk space is gone.
Since you don't know, you should NOT be running with any less then ~1.5GB of free disk space …
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