I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6 on an iMac 27-inch mid-2011.
I have an 80gb partition on my mac that i use regularly (my other 920gb partition is 10.6.8 for music production, rarely use) and the HD space has been fluctuating which worries me.
The other night I had 5gb available. Then out of nowhere my hard drive space started vanishing. I could literally see it going down before my eyes. Eventually it landed at only 13mb available and froze. I lost all my Google Chrome tabs and rebooted. When i rebooted i was back to 5gb. Then last night it happened again (down to 13mb avail) while using Photoshop. I figured it was because of Photoshop and then closed it and restarted. This time when i rebooted, my HD space only went back up to 1.6gb. I reboot again and then it's at only 1gb avail. I call it a night and then turn the computer on this morning and now it's only 0.87gb. What's going on? This never used to happen. Where did my HD space go?
For what it's worth, i'm currently signed out of iCloud. I'm not sure if i was connected to it at any point but i'm not sure how to check. I also have Time Machine disabled.
My goal here is to find the cause. I don't necessarily need to solve it, i just need to know WHY, so that i can stop worrying. But i have no idea how to figure this out. So if you guys could please ask me the right questions that can lead to figuring this out then i would be so very grateful!!
Here's a pic of my system memory in Activity Monitor. I did some googling and noticed that seems to get asked for a lot
I have an 80gb partition on my mac that i use regularly (my other 920gb partition is 10.6.8 for music production, rarely use) and the HD space has been fluctuating which worries me.
The other night I had 5gb available. Then out of nowhere my hard drive space started vanishing. I could literally see it going down before my eyes. Eventually it landed at only 13mb available and froze. I lost all my Google Chrome tabs and rebooted. When i rebooted i was back to 5gb. Then last night it happened again (down to 13mb avail) while using Photoshop. I figured it was because of Photoshop and then closed it and restarted. This time when i rebooted, my HD space only went back up to 1.6gb. I reboot again and then it's at only 1gb avail. I call it a night and then turn the computer on this morning and now it's only 0.87gb. What's going on? This never used to happen. Where did my HD space go?
For what it's worth, i'm currently signed out of iCloud. I'm not sure if i was connected to it at any point but i'm not sure how to check. I also have Time Machine disabled.
My goal here is to find the cause. I don't necessarily need to solve it, i just need to know WHY, so that i can stop worrying. But i have no idea how to figure this out. So if you guys could please ask me the right questions that can lead to figuring this out then i would be so very grateful!!
Here's a pic of my system memory in Activity Monitor. I did some googling and noticed that seems to get asked for a lot
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