Lenovo laptop window-SSD (C) drive full

googler

mrseyes said:

Thank you all. I managed move large files (biggest was photos) onto external drive and it worked.  

OK, you've moved them somewhere else. 

If they're of the slightest importance to you, you need to make ANOTHER COPY of them, double quick.

Drives can fail. If you have your photos in one place only, you can lose them all in one go. 

Figure out how much space you need, get another drive of that size or greater, and make a second copy of them on that drive. 

Grey_Critic

Surprising how much **rubbish** people have on their computer. Once spent over an hour deleting stuff on one. They had never deleted anything from day 1 -

[Deleted User]

Buy a Mac.


  

debitcardmayhem

Deleted_User said:

Buy a Mac.


  

Why? are you expecting rain

Neil_Jones

Deleted_User said:

Buy a Mac.


  

And this helps how?

Macs do get full hard drives as well, this is not a "one operating system is better than the other" thing.

Windows might get a load of stick for having superfluous "junk" in an installation but MacOS isn't any better in this regard.   A clean installation of Catalina requires around 12.5GB of storage while an upgrade requires 18.5GB (or up to three times more if you're upgrading to it from some really old version)

GDB2222

mrseyes said:

Thank you all. I managed move large files (biggest was photos) onto external drive and it worked.  

Bear in mind that this is not so much problem solved as problem postponed. Can I ask how much free space you now have?

outtatune

Spacesniffer is a neat little tool that gives you a visual idea of the size of files and folders on your computer, so you can target the ones taking up the most space.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

tempus_fugit

Neil_Jones said:

Deleted_User said:

Buy a Mac.


  

And this helps how?

Macs do get full hard drives as well, this is not a "one operating system is better than the other" thing.

Windows might get a load of stick for having superfluous "junk" in an installation but MacOS isn't any better in this regard.   A clean installation of Catalina requires around 12.5GB of storage while an upgrade requires 18.5GB (or up to three times more if you're upgrading to it from some really old version)

I do think the comment was made tongue-in-cheek. ;-)

[Deleted User]

tempus_fugit said:

Neil_Jones said:

Deleted_User said:

Buy a Mac.


  

And this helps how?

Macs do get full hard drives as well, this is not a "one operating system is better than the other" thing.

Windows might get a load of stick for having superfluous "junk" in an installation but MacOS isn't any better in this regard.   A clean installation of Catalina requires around 12.5GB of storage while an upgrade requires 18.5GB (or up to three times more if you're upgrading to it from some really old version)

I do think the comment was made tongue-in-cheek. ;-)

That’s what I had hoped. On other forums, buying a Mac seems to be the stock response to everything, that and using Linux.

jamesd

Deleted_User said:
On other forums, buying a Mac seems to be the stock response to everything, that and using Linux.

That's because linux has the answer to everything, just look at Wikipedia, which uses linux on its servers.