I will try to be as brief as possible!
I updated to Mojave and my iMac became very slow so I started to transfer files to a external disk to free up the start up disc, as it was nearly full. I managed to transfer a few files and empty the trash,and things where working fine. But I had to leave home, so I decided to transfer a large amount of files and let it do it’s job while I was away. The message was that it would take 2 hours to do the transfer. So I said OK and left.
When I got home the screen had frozen after about a 1 1/2 hours of activity.
I restarted the iMac, but could never get to the login window.
To speed things up, my problem is that using « single user mode » I found out that there was now only 2 MB of space left on the startup disk. Disk Utility cannot help as the disc name is greyed out and cannot be selected to do any repairs. someone mentioned to me that when you transfer files, they are first transferred to memory before the actual transfer and that is why my disk got filled up and inoperative.
So is there a way using single user mode to write a command line that would delete a few files to regain enough space to get to the login window and do the cleanup a few files at a time?
I updated to Mojave and my iMac became very slow so I started to transfer files to a external disk to free up the start up disc, as it was nearly full. I managed to transfer a few files and empty the trash,and things where working fine. But I had to leave home, so I decided to transfer a large amount of files and let it do it’s job while I was away. The message was that it would take 2 hours to do the transfer. So I said OK and left.
When I got home the screen had frozen after about a 1 1/2 hours of activity.
I restarted the iMac, but could never get to the login window.
To speed things up, my problem is that using « single user mode » I found out that there was now only 2 MB of space left on the startup disk. Disk Utility cannot help as the disc name is greyed out and cannot be selected to do any repairs. someone mentioned to me that when you transfer files, they are first transferred to memory before the actual transfer and that is why my disk got filled up and inoperative.
So is there a way using single user mode to write a command line that would delete a few files to regain enough space to get to the login window and do the cleanup a few files at a time?
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