Quote from: TommyBitcoin on October 22, 2016, 12:37:39 AM

I am a very non-technical person. It took my computer- a MacBook Air early 2014. After installing Bitcoin Core earlier this year, I noticed that my computer started slowing down. I keep getting a "your startup disk almost full" message. I took it to the apple store and they showed me thru Daisy Disk app that Bitcoin Core is the cause of my computer's performance. It is taking up too much memory- out of my 120 GB, it is taking up over 88 GB.

I am willing to trash it. I see no reason to keep it, if that is what is slowing my computer down. I have a little pixie dust in it. Other than anyone asking me to claim an address I used once in this forum, is there any consequence to getting rid of it?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

From what I remember, Bitcoin Core downloads the whole Blockchain data and takes a while to download because of that.

If you are using a laptop and planning to have Bitcoin Core on your computer 24/7 then you would want to make sure that you have enough data on your Hard Drive before downloading the Bitcoin Core software. I think the current Blockchain size is at (87.204 GB).
You could purchase a external hard drive (around 500 GB) so you could download the Blockchain data then move it to your hard drive, freeing up space on your computer. The Blockchain data is growing larger everyday so you might want to have that in mind when purchasing a external Hard Drive.

If you are using a Macintosh computer on the go and no wanting to use Bitcoin Core 24/7 then view your Bitcoin Core folder so you could copy the wallet.dat file and the passkey file (If you have a password for your Bitcoin wallet).

You could do this by typing this directory link in your address bar:

Code:

~/Library/Application Support/Bitcoin/

The size of the two files will not be that large so you could keep that on a USB that is under 4 GB real easily unless you have a bunch of transactions. 4 GB should be enough though.

With these two files backed up in your USB if someone sends you money then you could just load up the USB with another computer then open the "Wallet.dat" file and the "Passkey" file with another Bitcoin Core software then you should see your coins just sitting there along with the new money that arrived from the other person or people.

That is it.

My only additional advice to you is don't store a whole lot of your money on the computer.