<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hi Elyssa,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As others have said, an external drive will be your friend. Here’s a process you might use.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Download <a href="http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net" class="">Grand Perspective</a>, a free app that will show graphically what’s taking up the most space. <a href="https://daisydiskapp.com" class="">DaisyDisk</a> is similar, and costs $10. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Run either one of those apps to show what’s on your Mac and it will show you the largest files. Move them to your backup disk (if you still need them, otherwise delete them), then delete them from your Mac (and empty the trash).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. If you have 12,000 jpgs you could just move all of them to a photos folder on the external drive, too. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">4. Then get an app like <a href="https://macpaw.com/gemini" class="">Gemini 2</a>, which will find and delete duplicate files on your Mac. (You can also run it on the external hard drive to get rid of duplicates there).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">5. <a href="https://cleanmymac.macpaw.com/20?campaign=cmmx_search_text_brand_us&ci=105095406&adgroupid=15565330806&adpos=1t1&ck=cleanmymac%203&targetid=kwd-111733657446&match=%7Bif:e%7D&gnetwork=g&creative=197446344603&placement=&placecat=&accname=cmm&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjO-Yi6ro5gIVCmyGCh2qHQPzEAAYASAAEgKZhvD_BwE" class="">Clean My Mac</a> is another very good app that gets rid of lots of built-up “system junk" and other files you don’t need. It’s good for regular maintenance and will often create a huge amount of space. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">6. Go to Settings > iCloud and set it to hold your photos in the cloud so they are not taking up space on your Mac. You can get 50gb of storage for a dollar a month, or 200gb for $3/month. You can also store other files (documents, etc) in the cloud. You will see small versions of the photos in the Photos app, but they won’t be taking up so much space and they will be safer in the cloud, too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">7. You might need help getting rid of the duplicate accounts, since the apps mentioned above will only check one account at a time. If you make an appointment at the Apple store it won’t cost you anything.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">8. Once you have your machine in good order, duplicate files gone and large files moved to the backup drive, you want to keep things orderly. Maybe you want to buy a second 2 TB hard drive and use Disk Utility to split it into two virtual drives. Use one half for Time Machine backups and use the other for occasional Super Duper backups of your Mac. The Apple store might be able to help with this, too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Most people are terrible at backing up their stuff. Here’s a <a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/" class="">basic approach</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""><p class="">I am dealing with a similar case now, and a warning - Time
machine requires a good bit of working space <br class="">
SO if you are having space issues, time machine will not work even
incrementally.</p><p class="">As 2nd drive is the best solution. There are various 'diff'
versions that can do bulk and sub-directory comparisons.<br class="">
Well worth having.</p><p class="">Also, I have found switching from iPhoto to Photo appears to
leave a large number of complex working files,<br class="">
sorting that out now.</p><p class="">In general, images and worse videos is what fills up a disk, it
takes 1000's of documents to take the same place as one video.<br class="">
Also, if the older machine backup includes system images and/or
downloaded installers (usually many copies) <br class="">
those can be deleted - they are of no use.</p><p class="">Advanced technical help is often very warned, think about it -
few people have a car without regular use of a shop.<br class="">
Computers are equally or more complex.<br class="">
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<div class="">I highly recommend starting the process by making a
time machine backup of your newest MacBook using an external
drive. Once this is done, I would make a bootable copy of your
MacBook drive using software such as Super Duper or Carbon Copy
Cloner. Once the bootable drive has been created, you might
consider booting from this drive to verify that works. Once this
bootable drive has been verified, shut down your mac and
disconnect any attached drives. After the attached drives have
been disconnected, you can power back on the machine and start
deleting user's and contents to free up space with the knowledge
that you have two backups just in case something goes sideways.
Regarding data backups, remember the mantra, two is one and one
is none.</div>
<div class="">After you have freed up space on your MacBook, use
another external drive for active time machine backups of your
cleaned up Mac. Depending on the importance of the data, it may
be worth considering keeping an encrypted bootable backup drive
in another location.</div>
<div class="">I hope this helps a bit. Please feel free to reach
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my old Macbook died. Some nice folks were able to
"rescue the data", and put it on my new Macbook. They
created a new user to do this, and duplicate files of
all my data and apps. Then my old new Macbook died.
Some nice folks were able to "rescue the data", and put
it on my new new Macbook. My new new Macbook has three
users on it, each with the old old data 3 times, and the
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have kerzillions of files. I tried going through the
list one by one using a "Smart Folder", but I have over
12,000 just jpgs. I have an external hard drive... I
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