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Spam pop-up or legitimate free space warning?
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malcolm347
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Jun 24, 2008, 03:28 AM
 
Hey, so ive had my macbook for a year, and just yesterday i was on the internet and something pops up telling me to clear some space in my start up disk or something ? thats not my hard drive is it ? cuz it has probably 10gb left or so....
     
Randman
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Jun 24, 2008, 03:29 AM
 
Probably 10gb left? Can't you tell?

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Jun 24, 2008, 03:45 AM
 
Most likely it is a pop up ad trying to sell you something. Ignore.
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Jun 24, 2008, 03:46 AM
 
With 10GB left you won't receive that warning

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Jun 24, 2008, 04:00 AM
 
problem solved, was hard drive, upon viewing the hd space i realized it was low, my apologies
     
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Jun 24, 2008, 02:59 PM
 
There is a low disk space warning alert on Mac OS X, but I think this only applies to the startup disk.
     
   
 
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