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Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk. This extract from a chapter of our book Troubleshooting Mac® OS X describes several ways to free-up space on your Mac OS X startup disk, also known as your Mac OS X boot volume. While you could replace your current hard drive with a larger model, or install a second internal hard drive if your Mac will support such, the following tips will help you to free some space without changing your hardware. Additional tips are provided for saving more space if you have a second internal hard drive or an available partition. Determining available space on your startup disk To check how much free space is available on your startup disk: In Finder®, select your startup disk's icon.

For most users, this is Macintosh HD. Press the Command-I keyboard combination. Simple ways to free space You can employ any of the following tips to increase the free space available on your Mac OS X startup disk without altering your hardware. Empty the Trash Archive old files Clean up system logs and temporary files. Leopard Tips - MacTips: OS X Tips and Tricks. Coda - One-Window Web Development for Mac OS X. Good question. Coda is everything you need to hand-code a website, in one beautiful app. While the pitch is simple, building Coda was anything but. How do you elegantly wrap everything together? Well, we did it. And today, Coda has grown to be a critical tool for legions of web developers around the world. More than anything else, Coda is a text editor. But an incredible text editor is just a nice typewriter if you can’t easily handle all of your files — from anywhere. Then you’ll want to see what your code looks like.

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