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afewsocks - Jul 13, 2005 - 8:17 pm

Though I found someone with a similar problem and read their query and answer, I still just wasn't able to solve my own problem. So, I'm getting that 'startup disk full' error message when I try to input songs into intunes and then onto the ipod. of course, the ipod holds 5,000 songs, and I'm only up to 1,200. I went on a mass deleting spree, which was a bit trying. But apparently, I haven't deleted enough, as it didn't seem to make much difference. My question, is what else can I delete? I don't want to delete anything important, but there are tons of things on the computer (which is a g4) that i don't use.

I also wasn't able to find out my memory information because I did read that 15% needs to be freed up. One of the suggestions I found was to move the ipod music library. but to where?

Thanks!

kelley

maxe01 - Jul 13, 2005 - 8:29 pm

Kelley,

Can you give me some info about your system - what kind, OS version, amount of RAM, HD capacity (used and available)?

Are you running FileVault?

Let's start there.

Thanks
maxe01

afewsocks - Jul 21, 2005 - 6:29 pm

Let's see...I'm running Max OS X (10.3). RAM (I think this is right) i have 320 MB. Hardrive has 9.54 GB. Available memory on the HD is 302.7 MB.

Hope that's all correct.

I've not heard of FileVault, so I'm going to guess that I'm not running it.

Thanks for your help! : )

(sorry it took me so long to reply, was away on vacation!)

Kelley

maxe01 - Jul 22, 2005 - 9:59 am

Kelley,

Can't really say what to delete without knowing what you have and what you use your computer for. These days a 10GB hard drive isn't that much. The major space hogs are typically applications. Also consider your songs again - If you figure each song is between 3-6 MB and there are 1000 MB in 1 GB so if you have 1200 songs in your library that's between 3-7 GB just for songs. You might consider purchasing an external drive just for your songs. You can get an 80 GB external FireWire drive for around $100. 8x larger than your current internal hard drive.

maxe01

afewsocks - Jul 22, 2005 - 11:50 pm

ok, so my options are:
1. increasing my hard drive space? meaning buying more memory? or...?
2. saving my songs onto an external drive
(which, if i did that, would I just save 'itunes' the entire application
onto that drive?)
3. delete some applications that i don't use
(i mostly only use internet and microsoft-for-mac applications and
possibly quicktime occasionally. any suggestions on what i could
delete?)

i appreciate your help.

kelley

winningindustries - Jul 24, 2005 - 8:17 am

Hi,
please download "monolingual" and delete all unused language-files. That should give you some hundred Megs back.

regards

afewsocks - Jul 24, 2005 - 9:26 am

Thanks ever so much! Did that and it appears I saved some significant space. it would also help to buy more memory, am I right?

Thanks again!

kelley

winningindustries - Jul 24, 2005 - 10:18 am

320 MB of RAM (as you stated you have) is OK for browsing, email, music and small office.
Large images (photoshop...), M$-Applications and Video request more RAM, so that would be a speedup then.

If RAM is very low, your harddisk will be used as a replacement and that is verrrry slow!

You may drive a system with minimum RAM, but very large HDs.

Small HD keep you from installing apps, big music libs and videos!

regards

afewsocks - Jan 30, 2006 - 10:09 pm

I'm getting the message again that my startup disk is full. however, I did succeed in moving my itunes music folder to my external firewire HD. and i haven't added anything significant (or insignificant really) to the computer since. I'm wondering if I can remove anything else that I'm not using? I mostly just do itunes, chat, email and small office stuff. Or what can I move over the firewire HD?

Thanks!

Kelley

winningindustries - Feb 1, 2006 - 1:23 pm

Hi,
so if the songs are external, remove them from the startup-disk.

From iTunes 6 on the move of the music-library is dynamically automated.

regards

afewsocks - Feb 2, 2006 - 12:53 pm

Sounds great, now how do I remove them from the startup disk? And your second sentence, I sadly didn't understand at all...

Thanks!

Kelley

winningindustries - Feb 2, 2006 - 2:23 pm

Hi,
did you copy all the songs over?
If so, go to iTunes preferences - specials and click on the button to change the location of your music-library where you can choose the new location; that recreates the links to that external location after which you may delete the songs on the startup-disk.

They are in your home-folder usually under music.

But it has to be iTunes 6 at least, not 5.x!

If its an older iTunes, upgrade first.

regards