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Have you considered attaching, say, a small portable HD for images, audio or other large files? If you're interested and not sure how or why, you'll get a lot of help here :-)ĭaisy Disk is a good utility that might help.

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Would it be possible for you to push some of the files off onto a temporary external volume - during the installation then bring them back after the install routine has completed using all the space it actually needs?Įven then, running close to full with a HD is not usually advisable. I'd suggest you'd be pushing it with anything less than 50 GB free, even though the actual installer files are around a quarter of that.

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There were a few threads here about folks trying to upgrade to Monterey where the install process failed or hung due to insufficient disk space - which the installer detected - even when the user could see what appeared to be enough available space. That is to say that a straight comparison between the two (Big Sur and Monterey) installer downloads isn't really the most reliable metric. Generally-speaking, it's mot considered good practice to get close to the limit - if for no other reason than that a major OS install needs lots of 'spare' room for scratch and temporary files as it shifts things around, makes copies and puts files it 'thinks' it might need later into temporary locations etc.

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Some of them are free of charge:Īnd DaisyDisk which requires a basic knowledge of the OS X system. These softwares can serve you well, I guess. Then, install some system maintenance softwares just in case you are not tech-savvy enough to handle the problem using command lines. Here comes the conclusion: be reasonable about the 'speed' of your Mac. Since the Sierra OS X has given users the access to optimize his own hard disks and explore the system files deeper and further, APPLE also concede that Macs also need to be purged and optimized. In most cases, speed is an issue of perception.įinally, you should be aware that Mac is not so unique and powerful machine that you can just use it and do nothing to optimize it. Then, be careful of your own 'feelings' of the speed. Idk what disk usage scan you used but disk inventory x or daisy disk both do a decent job showing what and how big the files are that you're looking for.įirst of all, accept the fact that your Mac won't get ANY faster after you bought it. If there truly are thousands of emails with image attachments, please tell her family about shared icloud albums, or dropbox. Most email providers limit attachment size to 25mb per message, if she really has 150gb of attachments that's like 6,000 emails in her inbox at the max size (which is nuts and not the intended purpose of email lol - for reference my gmail account is 16 years old, 21k emails, and using 4.6GB). I'm guessing the library folder could be full of runaway logs or tons of saved drafts that got stuck in a loop or something like that. In gmail, it's at the bottom of the page. Check the disk usage in the email web interface for the email account.

Most free email providers don't offer that much storage without paying - does she/work pay for google workspace or something similar with 150GB+ of storage? If not, then there's no way it's the actual attachments. Data? Sure, but if you break something, you're nuking the whole account and redownloading it.

I wouldn't run any tools on the library folder if you're not confident you know exactly what you're doing (or without backups).

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