Since updating my MacBook Air, I’ve been getting an error warning stating that my hard drive is nearly full and that I must work offline whenever I try to use my Outlook email app for work. Once that happens, the software forces me to close it. How can I clear up some hard disk space now that Big Sur has taken up so much of my space and I’ve had to delete a lot of stuff to install the app?
Insufficient disk space on Mac could cause some macOS update issues. To ensure normal performance on your MacBook Air, you need to free up disk space to fix the “Your disk is almost full” error, you can apply the following solutions to free up space on Macintosh HD:
- Free up space with Mac’s built-in storage management feature
- Clear storage used by Virtual Machine
- Delete duplicate files
- Clear browser data
- Remove application & system logs
- Clean up iTunes backups for your iPhone and iPad
- Delete large attachments in Mail
- Remove unnecessary language files
- Clean your desktop
- Uninstall unwanted apps
- Move files to an external storage device
- Empty the Trash
You can also rely on a third-party Mac cleaner such as iBoysoft DiskGeeker for Mac, it can scan the Mac hard drive and categorize the files on your Mac, with its Clean Junk and Space Analyze features, you can remove unwanted files on Mac to release more disk space. (Free download iBoysoft DiskGeeker for Mac)
Recent macOS updates become increasingly large. You must ensure there is enough free disk space on your Mac hard drive to guarantee the success of the macOS updating and the smooth performance of the new macOS. It is always necessary to know how to check free disk space on a Mac. When the disk is almost full, you can clear caches, and unnecessary items, move big files to an external hard drive, etc., to free up disk space. If necessary, you can also boot the Mac from USB to run a new macOS.
Very specific answer. I will try these solutions to free up space.
Yes, I have also noticed that the macOS updates are larger and larger. It is a challenge for my small capacity of Macintosh HD.