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My free space is all over the place?

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JakobAloudMadge

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Jul 15, 2013
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I got a MBP 13 inch Retina in July of last year, and I've loved it so far. When I went to check the storage space, it said there were 9.9GB free. Seems accurate. But, without downloading anything, I got the warning that my startup disk was almost full within minutes. I checked, and it was at about 700MB. WHAT?! I got the warning again, and it was at 100MB. Then I got the bad one, that it was full. ZERO free space. I restarted my computer, and it went back to 9.9GB only to fall AGAIN within minutes.

Has anyone experienced this? What in the world is going on? Thanks.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Could it be, that you do not have enough RAM?

Open Activity Monitor and go to the System Memory* tab and look for Page Outs and Swap used and report back, which only works after a day of typical use, as the Swap files are reset upon a restart.

And 9 GB of free storage space is not that much to account for temporary files.

Do you by any chance use a UMTS USB stick?
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I'm so awful at finding certain statistics in things like the activity monitor. No, I don't use a USB stick of any kind.
 
JakobAloudMadge said:
I looked at that, but I didn't find anything about Pages Outs or Swap Used.
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You did not find it in the article/guide or in Activity Monitor?
Which Mac OS X version do you use?

To find out what Mac OS X version you run, click :apple: > About This Mac:
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9.9GB is almost nothing, I would free up more space. Your computer will run faster too.
 
JakobAloudMadge said:
Sorry. 10.9.
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What I meant was the Activity Monitor question, but then again, you could look here: OS X Mavericks: About Activity Monitor

Page Outs are no longer listed, only Swap Used. If after a day of typical usage there is a number greater than 1 GB (if you have 4 GB for example), then you need more RAM, and RAM was being swapped (copied from RAM to HDD/SSD) in order to free RAM, thus the loss of storage capacity.

I will update the guide once I have a free mind.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
What I meant was the Activity Monitor question, but then again, you could look here: OS X Mavericks: About Activity Monitor

Page Outs are no longer listed, only Swap Used. If after a day of typical usage there is a number greater than 1 GB (if you have 4 GB for example), then you need more RAM, and RAM was being swapped (copied from RAM to HDD/SSD) in order to free RAM, thus the loss of storage capacity.

I will update the guide once I have a free mind.
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Thank you so much.
 
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