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I keep losing HDD space! HALP!!
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fivetoadsloth
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rdowns
macrumors Penryn
Wow, the same EXACT thing happened to me. The next time I looked, I was at 102.67GB, then 101.87 GB. Let me know if you find the solution.
CanadaRAM
macrumors G5
1) Turn off torrents.
2) Get WhatSize from www.versiontracker.com and find out what your largest files are. You could have a log file that is going rogue on you.
2) Get WhatSize from www.versiontracker.com and find out what your largest files are. You could have a log file that is going rogue on you.
Cybergypsy
macrumors 68040
Nope.
Okay. I just quit iTunes and I stopp downloading (but still uploading) on my torrents. I just got my gig back.
I'll try the whatsize thing. I will also start up iTunes and see what happens.
If you are using HandBrake, that could be the culprit. I had 7 GB of space go missing because of it.
Turned out i had some weird folder in hard drive/library/logs/console
Check there.
Turned out i had some weird folder in hard drive/library/logs/console
Check there.
If you are torrenting, the computer will allocate the full file size on the hard drive as soon as you start the download. Stopping the download won't change your free space at all.
The easiest way to check if the disk space was eaten up by virtual memory is to restart the computer. Compare your free space before and after...
While it is good to keep an eye on your free space, you don't have to be too paranoid. Don't worry until the space keeps going down continually, as may be the case when it comes to a runaway log file.
🙂
The easiest way to check if the disk space was eaten up by virtual memory is to restart the computer. Compare your free space before and after...
While it is good to keep an eye on your free space, you don't have to be too paranoid. Don't worry until the space keeps going down continually, as may be the case when it comes to a runaway log file.
🙂
If stopping the download won't help, then sounds like quitting iTunes did it. However, if you analyze stuff this closely you may be losing minutes off your life. 😛
ultimateceej
macrumors regular
This is what happened. I know exactly what you are talking about it is nothing that you don't have control over.
Azureus has an option not to allocate the full file size when downloading a torrent, so it only takes up the space that has been downloaded. I would check that out, I think they call it "Incremental File Creation" or something like that.
I've been downloading that torrent for longer than two days (big file). So, I know that isn't the problem.
As for the handbrake thing someone suggested to me, I didn't see a console folder inside my Library folder. Oh well. I'll wait and see if it happens again today.
Right now it is at 104.1GB. Time to wait.
I was going to make a new thread, but I might as well post it here...
So I turn my BRAND NEW MBP on, and it says something like 145 gb total, 136 available.
What the hell? Is the OSX taking up 15 gigs? And what about the 9 gigs between total and available - whats happening to that?
So I turn my BRAND NEW MBP on, and it says something like 145 gb total, 136 available.
What the hell? Is the OSX taking up 15 gigs? And what about the 9 gigs between total and available - whats happening to that?
dpaanlka
macrumors 601
No, Mac OS X is only about 4 gigs. The rest is iLife '08 (mostly) and iWork '08. It really shouldn't concern you too much at this point - you won't want to go and delete things if you don't know what they are just yet.