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How to check your Mac’s free hard drive space
Wondering if your Mac has enough storage space for that massive download? Wonder no more.
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are you running out of space on your
hard drive or storage device here's how
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to check for your free space there are
five ways to check your free space the
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first two other easiest ways first you
can just click on your hard drive icon
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and press the spacebar and that'll show
you the free space
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another easy way to check your free
space is to open your hard drive and
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just look at the bottom of the Finder
window with this next method you select
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a hard drive press command I on your
keyboard and you'll see the available
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space on your storage device this also
gives you a little more detail about the
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drive another way to do it is to select
the Apple menu and select about this Mac
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then click on storage and this will give
you a little bit more detail about your
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storage device it shows you the
available space but it also shows you
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what kind of files are taking up your
storage you can free up space by
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clicking on the manage tool and this
gives you options to delete or move
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files the last method involves using
Disk Utility it's an app you can find in
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the applications utility folder or you
can just do a spotlight search and
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launch it from there now in Disk Utility
you'll see how much free space you have
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and you'll also have tools you can use
like first aid and partition now you may
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have noticed different numbers on the
free disk space for each method that's
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because Apple uses different ways to
measure disk space but you should get a
0:01:30.299,0:01:36.170
good idea of how much space you have and
whether or not you need to expand
are you running out of space on your
hard drive or storage device here's how
0:00:03.689,0:00:10.620
to check for your free space there are
five ways to check your free space the
0:00:10.620,0:00:14.759
first two other easiest ways first you
can just click on your hard drive icon
0:00:14.759,0:00:18.600
and press the spacebar and that'll show
you the free space
0:00:18.600,0:00:22.500
another easy way to check your free
space is to open your hard drive and
0:00:22.500,0:00:27.060
just look at the bottom of the Finder
window with this next method you select
0:00:27.060,0:00:31.260
a hard drive press command I on your
keyboard and you'll see the available
0:00:31.260,0:00:35.880
space on your storage device this also
gives you a little more detail about the
0:00:35.880,0:00:41.640
drive another way to do it is to select
the Apple menu and select about this Mac
0:00:41.640,0:00:47.430
then click on storage and this will give
you a little bit more detail about your
0:00:47.430,0:00:52.050
storage device it shows you the
available space but it also shows you
0:00:52.050,0:00:56.730
what kind of files are taking up your
storage you can free up space by
0:00:56.730,0:01:01.260
clicking on the manage tool and this
gives you options to delete or move
0:01:01.260,0:01:07.080
files the last method involves using
Disk Utility it's an app you can find in
0:01:07.080,0:01:12.210
the applications utility folder or you
can just do a spotlight search and
0:01:12.210,0:01:17.009
launch it from there now in Disk Utility
you'll see how much free space you have
0:01:17.009,0:01:22.110
and you'll also have tools you can use
like first aid and partition now you may
0:01:22.110,0:01:26.159
have noticed different numbers on the
free disk space for each method that's
0:01:26.159,0:01:30.299
because Apple uses different ways to
measure disk space but you should get a
0:01:30.299,0:01:36.170
good idea of how much space you have and
whether or not you need to expand
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