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Yea that seemed to be the major issue.
I freed-up 20GB and since it's booting normally - but continues to be rather laggy;
also apparently unable to repair permissions on a couple of entries, including a warning concearning a SUID-file.So unshure whether restoring OS is worth the trouble (and if yes - whether it's wise to go Capitan with this machine).
salad
Helping a friend out, whose mid-2012 MacBook Air only booted to a blank, white screen, with occasional "startvolume full" complaint.
Booted in save mode, freed up space on and checked volume (120GB SSD), repaired permissions.. partly successful apparently - there's always a couple of entries that don't get fixed.
But now the thing boots up without complaints again - but still does feel laggy: like, fading-in the background image on startup does not happen smoothly.
Not being that familiar with the last OSXs -
is there something I can do to speed-up / clean / repair / check, or does one simply re-new the OS from recovery partion in cases like this?
Also is it advisable to upgrade to Capitan with a machine like that (1.8 GHz i5 / 4GB RAM) or keep Mavericks?
Thanks!