Hard Drive Keeps Filling Up For No Reason

[nc1902]

Please help guys, I'm a frequent visitor of this forum but only needed to sign up after this happened!

I was playing a game today and was interupted with a message saying space is very low.

I've run disk inventory x and it finds nothing conspicuous.

I'm an absolute novice when it comes to anything advanced with macs/pc's and am really stumped.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[walterwhite]

What did the message say exactly? Was it something from the system?

 

[nc1902]

Just the typical system message saying space is very low, please delete some files etc.

 

[nc1902]

Well, I just deleted the two programs I installed today and now it's jumped back up to 16gb. Is this the end of the matter?

 

[old-wiz]

Sometimes programs encounter repeated errors, which show up on the system logs and can eventually consume an enormous amount of space. This is an easy check.