My Hard Drive is filling up continuously! Runs out of space for no apparant reason.

joeriki · Apr 3, 2010, 09:42 AM

I have an imac 1tb 24in. I run timem machine to an external drive. But something in my mac keeps filling up. I bought whatsize and over the course of 2 hours HD lost 9gb. I can hear theh drive running continuously. It sounds lime timemachine backups but even when i turn it off. The little whriling had drive sapce eater is still running. Any ideas. I spent all last week deleting stuff only to have the space filled by the greedy little prog thats killing my drive. In abiout 16 hours before i get to zero kb again. So any one know what to do short of a complete reinstall. Thanks

BobZune · Apr 3, 2010, 10:14 AM

It is probably a runaway log file. Open Console.app and see what is being logged. Here's one example (your specific logging issue may point to a different log file) http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=641936 . Once you find which log is the problem, you can look for the right solution.

joeriki · Apr 3, 2010, 11:02 AM

there is nothing chaning on teh Disk x display. And my private is at 55gb but static. Its not the logs, thast a few 100 mb. But what is strange is MHD shows 743.3 GB in Disk X but in get info its shows 808gb growing . so what ever it is its not showing up anywhere. its hidden. Any clues to what to can try next. I lost another 2gb since we started this

joeriki · Apr 3, 2010, 11:21 AM

i downloadd and ran onyx and it cleared 50gb of space and not my hd used is stable. great. thanks for the pointers.

Apr 3, 2010, 09:42 AM	#1
joeriki macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2010	My Hard Drive is filling up continuously! Runs out of space for no apparant reason. I have an imac 1tb 24in. I run timem machine to an external drive. But something in my mac keeps filling up. I bought whatsize and over the course of 2 hours HD lost 9gb. I can hear theh drive running continuously. It sounds lime timemachine backups but even when i turn it off. The little whriling had drive sapce eater is still running. Any ideas. I spent all last week deleting stuff only to have the space filled by the greedy little prog thats killing my drive. In abiout 16 hours before i get to zero kb again. So any one know what to do short of a complete reinstall. Thanks
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Apr 3, 2010, 11:02 AM	#3
joeriki Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2010	Thanks, i had a look around. Disc x and there is nothing chaning on teh Disk x display. And my private is at 55gb but static. Its not the logs, thast a few 100 mb. But what is strange is MHD shows 743.3 GB in Disk X but in get info its shows 808gb growing . so what ever it is its not showing up anywhere. its hidden. Any clues to what to can try next. I lost another 2gb since we started this
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Apr 3, 2010, 11:21 AM	#4
joeriki Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: Apr 2010	solved Ony x i downloadd and ran onyx and it cleared 50gb of space and not my hd used is stable. great. thanks for the pointers.
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Apr 3, 2010, 10:14 AM	#2
BobZune macrumors 6502a Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: USA	It is probably a runaway log file. Open Console.app and see what is being logged. Here's one example (your specific logging issue may point to a different log file) http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=641936 . Once you find which log is the problem, you can look for the right solution.
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