Harddrive Mysteriously Getting Full (iMac G5)

[wngraham]

Less than a month ago my HD was listed as 31 GB full, with 114 GB free space. Last night (and I've literally installed no new programs or updates) I now only have 23 GB free.

Any ideas what could've happened?

I went through each folder and directory, and it seems it's my Library folder that's over 100 GB in size.

All help would be appreciated.

 

[iBookG4user]

You should run WhatSize to see what is taking up all the space.

 

[WildCowboy]

Try WhatSize or OmniDiskSweeper to help you look for large files/folders. Sometimes a runaway log file can eat up GB of space.

 

[Counterfit]

Agreed. OmniDiskSweeper pointed me to a 5GB ( ) log file. That's a LOT of text!

 

[Mernak]

another vote for WhatSize. Just cleared up almost 30Gigs earlier today.

 

[WICK3D]

I give a vote to Disk Inventory X

My hard drive did get full one day i downladed that app and figured out that samba logs where almost 30GB.

 

[SFVCyclone]

Are these apps free or are there any out there that do this that are free?

 

[wngraham]

Huge thanks for the Omni Disk Sweeper recommendation.

For some unknown reason I had a 96 GB .dmg mirror of my entire harddrive! It was created on 11/6. I've got no idea how it could've happened, but after a quick delete everything's fine.

Also, to the person looking for free apps, Omni Disk is free. The $14.99 registration fee only activates the "Delete" button. You can still follow the path shown and manually delete whatever you need to for free.