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Disappearing hard drive space...any ideas?

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So some reason, which drives me insane, my hard drive (boot drive) runs out of space every time I use the computer.

Let me explain...if I reboot the computer, it shows ~21GB available. I open some programs, start doing some work, and it starts to go down. By the end of the day, I'm down to under 1GB and a lot of the times I get warning about being out of memory and I have to restart the computer to free up space on the hard drive.

I don't know if I have some settings all screwed up or if it's a virus or what.
It's a Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM, 120GB SSD boot drive and a 2TB internal HDD for storage.
 
Thank you for the suggestion on DaisyDisk. I downloaded it, ran it, and here is what I found...

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A huge part is being taken up by "private". I reset the computer, which reduced "private" from 17.6GB to 1.8GB.

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By double clicking on the "private", it took me deeper and deeper into where the files are located until I got to the end.

What are these files? Can they be deleted?

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Didn't want to make excess threads on similar topics, so I figure I'll piggyback the OP here and share my question.

First, I know I have a ton of space available... I'm just wondering if this is normal.

So my "Other" in the Storage tab of "About This Mac" is over 15 GB. I posted that and a couple of screen shots from Daisy Disk.

Thanks for any help. Hopefully someone has an answer to this!
 

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davidnyjets said:
Didn't want to make excess threads on similar topics, so I figure I'll piggyback the OP here and share my question.

First, I know I have a ton of space available... I'm just wondering if this is normal.

So my "Other" in the Storage tab of "About This Mac" is over 15 GB. I posted that and a couple of screen shots from Daisy Disk.

Thanks for any help. Hopefully someone has an answer to this!
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Post #2 or What is this "Other" in the storage tab? What is eating up my space? by theSeb
 
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