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Help LION Freaking Out! Losing HD Space, Trash not right

mperkins37

mperkins37

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Jan 17, 2007
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Just sitting it loses HD Space, The Trash Icon never looks full, Every time I drag something into the trash it asks for Password, trash never gets full. I Deleted 100 gb of stuff & it says only 10.5 gb is available. Started at 11.1 gb, slowly dropping, deleting stuff from desktop doesnt increase hd space at all. HELP!
 
If you're wondering what "Other" category in the Lion/ML storage tab is about, this may help explain:
For space issues not explained by the above, there are a few things you can try, some of which may or may not apply:
  • Begin by restarting your computer as a first step. This sometimes resolves issues.

  • For Time Machine users on notebooks running Lion or later, space may be consumed by Time Machine local snapshots, which can be disabled.

  • Check to see if some of the space is being used by your sleepimage file.

  • Check the System Memory tab in Activity Monitor to check page outs and swap used. If swap used is significant, restart your computer and track that value under your normal workload. If you have significant page outs under normal use, you could benefit from more RAM.

  • Search with Finder to see if the space is being consumed by a very large file or several large files. Adjust the 50GB in the illustration to whatever size you deem appropriate.
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  • Use OmniDiskSweeper, JDisk Report, Disk Inventory X, DaisyDisk or GrandPerspective to see how space is being used on your drive. Some of these apps may show more detail than others, so try several.

  • Check your drive with Disk Utility: Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks

  • Try re-indexing your drive: Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes
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No luck yet, Biggest files are 20-30gd & not on the drive in question.

No luck yet, Biggest files are 20-30gd & not on the drive in question. Why would trash ask permission to put the file into trash? Why doesnt it hold trash till I empty it? Acts like I toss stuff in trash, trash empties but doesnt subtract form disk HELP.
 
Restarted several times, Just tossing stuff off the desktop, no special permissions, Ran disk first aid, NO Problems, Fixed permissions, NOTHING. Was able to start up off of 2nd bay $ deleted some stuff I had Backed up I have 80.85 gb now so I have more time to figure it out.
 
ANY IDEAS WHY TRASH ASKS PERMISSIONS, & NEVER HAS FULL ICON? OOPS Caps lock... sorry, anyway, asks permission for desktop objects that shouldnt have any issues, photoshop, files & video. not deleting...just going to the trash or nowhere after permission comes up& I have to type the password in...where is the .trash file at?
 
mperkins37 said:
...where is the .trash file at?
Click to expand...

Click a blank area on the Desktop to bring focus to the Finder. Hit shift-command-g (all three at once). Paste the text below into the box that pops up this hit enter. That will show you your trash folder.

Code: 
~/.Trash/
 
This did it! Freed up 220 gb of un-deleted deleted stuff....

1. Quit the "Terminal" application and relaunch it, to make sure that you are NOT logged in as another user (root for example). This is important, because the folder we create will get all the permissions from the parent folder (your "home" folder), and only the user who created the new ".Trash" directory (you) will be able to use it without restrictions.

2. In the Terminal type

sudo rm -frv ~/.Trash

to remove the old ".Trash" directory and all folders and files in the old ".Trash" directory.

3. In the Terminal type

mkdir -v ~/.Trash

to create a new ".Trash" directory in your "home" folder!

4. In the Terminal type

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to quit'

then

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to activate'

to restart the Finder!

5. Done! You can now move files in the trash!

If the Finder restart does not work on your system, then logout/login to activate the new trash can.
 
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