How should I fix my mac?

well, we’re talking about storage here, you could just throw some stuff over to an external disk, that seems the fastest way really

Note RAM = “memory” and hard drive space = “storage.”

File Vault won’t let itself be turned off? Do you get an error when trying to do so?

Also, 60GB isn’t much room these days. Consider upgrading the drive to something bigger or adding an external.

Basically whats going on here is that in order to turn off file vault, it has to have enough room to unencrypted the entire contents of your home directory before turning it off. That means that if your home directory is 20 GB, you need 20 GBs free for the operation to be complete. My best answer would be, go buy an external drive, copy over your music folder (because thats probably the largest file in there) to the external drive. Doing so will un-encrypt your music folder and make a copy in your external drive. After that is copied (AND VERIFIED!!), delete you music folder from your home directory and that should free up quite a bit of room. Keep doing this until you have enough room to turn off file vault.

^ There you go. (I’m not a File Vault user.)

The external HD approach sounds good, but before you go that far: when did you last recover drive space when restarting?