lost 5GB HD space in 5 min or so...

Hi all,

a couple of hours ago, I realized that my internal MBP HD (160GB) only had 15 GB space left instead of 20, which it had over the last weeks. I also noticed that the Spotlight database was re-build. (???)

I run Apple's Hard Drive Utility to repair the HD, but everything seemed ok. I used Tinker Tool to run daily / weekly / monthly scripts. Restarted, but still only 15GB. I looked using OmniDiskSweeper, but did not notice any unusual large files. I have only one swapfile in /private/var/vm which is 3GB and was created December 07. Not much in /private/tmp. Oh, and I am running OS X 10.5.2, with all software updates...

Oh, and my computer is slowww today and crashes. Colored spinning balls all the time... (Is that due to the Spotlight database being rebulid?)

Can you help me finding that 5GB? I'd appreciate any suggestions...

/Library/Logs is 4.2MB...

Nice guess, though. And it could well have been that... Thanks!

Any other suggestions?

Peter

Thanks, Andy. I used OmniDiskSweeper which is similar (although graphically not as sophisticated), but I also tried Disk Inventory X. I Found some other stuff I deleted (but those files have been on my HD for a year or so...).

Still wondering how that could happen. 5GB in a single day, without installing / saving something...?