Once you have another drive you can move the afore mentioned large items if they are indeed taking up a large amount of space. Drag Photos Library to a location on your external storage device. You can open your home folder by choosing Go > Home from the Finder menu bar. By default, Photos Library is stored in the Pictures folder of your home folder. Backing up critical business files such as annual sales, inventory reports and customer details is immensely helpful to any Mac user. In the Finder, open the folder that contains Photos Library. That is for making a backup copy, not for holding the originals. Move Photos Library to the storage device. Select the NTFS external hard drive and click 'Erase' in Disk. Go to Finder, click 'Applications' > 'Utilities' > Double-click to open Disk Utility. Connect the NTFS external hard drive to Mac. Here are the steps to format NTFS external hard drive to FAT on Mac: Step 1. In the Finder, drag the library file to your external hard drive. So make sure that you back up essential files in advance. A new Finder window opens with the library selected. To locate the library file, select the library in the Libraries sidebar, then choose File > Reveal in Finder. Again, do not use your Time Machine backup drive for this purpose. After removing generated files, move the library. You can move all 3 of these to an external hard drive if you like. The most common items that people tend to have that use up all their space are iTunes (Music/Movies), iPhoto (Pictures), and iMovie (Movies). ‘From a Mac, Time Machine backup or other Startup disk’. When it prompts for how you want to transfer your information, select an appropriate option i.e. Next select ‘Applications’ folder and then click on ‘Utilities’. Here are some general ideas on how to free up space: Open Migration Assistant by clicking Finder > Applications > Utilities. Connect the external hard drive to your Mac using a USB cable and wait until the hard drive successfully. Sometimes when you insert a pend drive or connect any external USB drive to your Mac, you may not be able to use that device. That would be like performing brain surgery on yourself.) If you are running out of space, get an additional external drive to store them on so that they can still be backed up by Time Machine. Move Files To External Hard Drive (Drag and Drop). Any files you put on that drive are not backed up by Time Machine (Time Machine cannot backup it's own drive. Connect an external hard drive to the computer using the USB cable and wait for the icon for that drive to appear on the Desktop. Is the drive you are moving files to the drive you use for your Time Machine backup? If so, don't do this.
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