AHHH - two days ago the dreaded pop up appeared saying disk space was low.. i cleared out some files and opened up 20GB of free space. well the pop up appeared again a couple minutes ago. And I can visibly see it decreasing mb after mb.. wtf is going on? over 20 gigs lost in two days?
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MBP remaining disk space rapidly decreasing
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Stop the porn downloads running in the background 
Seriously though, what applications are active at the time? Are you sure someone isn't dropping files into a public folder of yours or anything like that?
Run Activity Monitor and check "All Processes" and see which ones are eating up CPU time. I would expect if disk space is being eaten up, there is an active process doing the eating.
Seriously though, what applications are active at the time? Are you sure someone isn't dropping files into a public folder of yours or anything like that?
Run Activity Monitor and check "All Processes" and see which ones are eating up CPU time. I would expect if disk space is being eaten up, there is an active process doing the eating.
Stop the porn downloads running in the background
Seriously though, what applications are active at the time? Are you sure someone isn't dropping files into a public folder of yours or anything like that?
Run Activity Monitor and check "All Processes" and see which ones are eating up CPU time. I would expect if disk space is being eaten up, there is an active process doing the eating.
no porn, and i'm running illustrator, photoshop, safari and itunes.. activity moitor only showed those programps, an mds something and a couple 'windowserver' things using cpu%
Look at Activity Monitor to see if there's anything sucking up huge amounts of RAM, too. Download DiskInventoryX to see if there is a single huge file that shouldn't be there.
Could be a runaway Safari cache, weren't there some problems with that? What version of Safari/OS X are you using?
Could be a runaway Safari cache, weren't there some problems with that? What version of Safari/OS X are you using?
I use daisy disk to show me the files that are huge that need to go.
The only thing I can think that would use this kind of space is a virtual machine that the space wasnt allocated for previously...
The only thing I can think that would use this kind of space is a virtual machine that the space wasnt allocated for previously...
