Lost Hard Drive Space

[occ10dog]

Hey guys.

On my CD Macbook, I was sitting at 28gb free when I started to print a Christmas card in Word 200 times. It was taking too much time and I needed to do something else so I cancelled it. Everything quit fine, but now I'm sitting at 13gb of free space - I've lost 15GB! I've tried repairing permissions, restarting, and searching for files bigger than a GB. Any help?

 

[WildCowboy]

Try using a tool like WhatSize, OmniDiskSweeper or DiskInventoryX to look for large files and folders that look out-of-the-ordinary.

 

[occ10dog]

So I ran all of the above mentioned programs and they are coming back saying that I'm only using the correct disk amount when I add up the folders, but when it says how much is available, it's still short by about 12-15GB. Any ideas?

 

[occ10dog]

I found a folder called "private" it's about 3gb in size. Any clue as to what this might be?

 

[eva01]

look at your console logs, maybe they have gone out of control

 

[occ10dog]

sorry, but what should i look for?

 

[eva01]

Look at the program console, and check what size the logs are.

 

[occ10dog]

Sorry once again, what would a normal console log look like? How do I know if it is out of control?

 

[eva01]

i think that it shows the size of the log (at work right now, so i can't check it)

 

[occ10dog]

I guess I kind of figured it out. I have no clue what was eating up the space, but I ran Onyx and had it clean out the old crash logs(??) and that freed up the 13GB that were missing. Thanks for you help.

 

[eva01]

so it was the logs then

 

[occ10dog]

yeah, thanks for all the help. I'm a little slow sometimes