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1. #HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN INSTALL#
2. #HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN UPDATE#
3. #HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN UPGRADE#
4. #HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN FULL#
5. #HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN DOWNLOAD#

#HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN UPDATE#

Apple has made it easier than ever to update to the latest operating system, even if you are running an older operating system on your Mac.

#HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN UPGRADE#

Even if you're still running OS X El Capitan, you can upgrade to macOS Mojave with just a click.

#HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN DOWNLOAD#

If you still can't update to macOS Mojave, you may download the installer from an external source, like I did when I needed to update from Snow Leopard (10.8) to El Capitan (10.11). Then, you can manually download the installer through Apple Official Support or the Mac App Store.

#HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN INSTALL#

Then, in the very top left of the screen, the picture of an Apple, I clicked that and clicked "restart," my computer restarted, started the El Capitan install again, took forever, but actually finished! And now I am happily running El Capitan and did not need to erase my hard drive. Look for Macintosh HD in the list (if that's the name of yours) and there should be some stats about % of space full, GB used vs. I deleted some big video files I had and freed up several GB of space. To check the directory you are currently in use pwd. ( be careful you type the file name right, you don't want to accidentally delete other stuff, this can't be undone) To delete a file use: rm filetodelete.ext Then I could re-navigate to them so that I could delete them. Then once you're in a subfolder with some files you're considering deleting, you can use the following to get a list with file sizes, so you can identify the big ones: ls -lhĪfter I navigated around a while and couldn't find many big files, I googled and found I could do the following to get a list of paths of all files bigger than 500 MB: find / -size +500000 -print`

#HOW TO MANAGE STORAGE ON MAC EL CAPITAN FULL#

It shows you a list of folders, then get to the subfolder by either cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Subfolder/ (typing full path) If you need to, you can navigate around by doing: cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ ls -1 To get to my documents, use: cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Users/username/Documents To get list of everything in the folder you are in: ls -1 The back slash you have to put before any spaces: cd /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ To get to your main disk, if it's called Macintosh HD. The goal was to find big files I could delete. On the very top of the screen, went to Utilities>Terminal.Hold down command+R, click the power button, keep holding down command+R until the Apple logo appears, let go.

Turn off computer using the power button.Thanks to for getting me started with a solution that worked. I couldn't get back to my normal functioning Snow Leopard, every time I turned on the computer it would take me to the El Capitan install screen.Īfter getting no help from Apple Support, who told me I was going to need to erase my hard drive, I started Googling and found this. I think the partial install had taken up a lot of space. I clicked restart, and it restarted, then asked me what disk I wanted to install El Capitan on, and I picked Macintosh HD and it said not enough space - which surprised me, because I had checked before downloading El Capitan and starting the install that I definitely had enough space. After taking a few hours to start installing, it popped up and said the installation failed, and to click restart to try again. I was installing El Capitan from Snow Leopard. At least terminal says "read-only file system" when I try to use rmdir on something. There's already a question exactly like mine: Stuck in update boot (not enough disk space)īut no one has answered it, so I think it's okay to ask it again.ĮDIT: I can also access Terminal which I could potentially also useĮDIT AGAIN: Nevermind, it looks like Macintosh HD is read-only while I'm in this boot menu. Is there a way to get out of this startup menu so I can free up space, or a way to free up space directly from the menu? This is pretty frustrating because it seems like a major design flaw if it tells you you don't have enough storage for a certain thing, but it doesn't let you free up the storage to download the thing. I can open Disk Utility from this menu, and it seems logical to put some method of freeing up disk space from there, but if there is, I can't find it.

It doesn't seem like there's a way to free up space from this startup menu, though. Unfortunately, when I downloaded it and restarted my computer, on the "select the disk on which to install" page the only location, Macintosh HD, didn't have enough space (by about 2 GB). I wanted to upgrade my Macbook 2008 from Yosemite to El Capitan.