Hard Disk Full? Had 38G left two hours ago - and done nothing?

[masterell]

Hi guys,

2 hours ago I (secure) deleted a whole bunch of stuff off my macbook and emptied the trash. I went from 35GB free to 37GB free. I left me room to come back two hours later to a message saying 'Startup disk nearly full', and having checked my disk, I now have zero KB left.

How has this happened considering I haven't installed anything new?

What should I do?

All help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[cgratti]

Reboot

 

[magiic]

Mirroring folders on two seperate drives connected to an AEBS

Gnomes?

 

[masterell]

Just rebooted - didn't make any difference...

 

[stridemat]

Would this problem be caused by a corrupt swap file on your mac?

Normally if the space is needed then OSX is great at freeing it up off the hard drive.

 

[sammich]

Get Info on these folders below:

/Library/Logs/
/Users/yourusername/Library/Logs

Just a hunch.

 

[masterell]

The Logs folders are 3MB and 36MB...

As far as a corrupt swap file, how would I find out whether this is the case or not, and what can I do if it is?

 

[ziggyonice]

Check some of the hidden folders on your Mac.

I'd try /tmp.

 

[Apple Ink]

First get this and scan your system!
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/

Find whats crappy big and try to pinpoint the location.. if its in System Folder then:
Repair Disk and Permissions from the Startup Disk!!

 

[sammich]

http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/beta/

Run that, and follow it to where large files shouldn't be.

 

[masterell]

Ahhh thanks so much guys..I did what Apple Inc suggested, and all these unnecessary files were revealed. I just deleted them and its freed up 50GB

Thank you for all the help guys!

 

[Apple Ink]

Ahhh thanks so much guys..I did what Apple Inc suggested, and all these unnecessary files were revealed. I just deleted them and its freed up 50GB

Thank you for all the help guys!

Yeesh.. its Ink. LOL

Nice to be of help!