i had about 3gb of spcace on my HD before, and ive been downloading a torrent but the torrent i am positive is being saved to the network, not the hard drive....but now it says i only have 3mb of space left on my harddrive...so i thought maybe the files were saving by mistake, but i searched for them with spotlight, and it ddint find anything.....i dont understand what could be doing htis and why i cannot find the files either....
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Probably some cache/temp file somewhere. Try MainMenu to clear cache and/or reboot.
BTW, it's not your boot drive (aka Startup Disk) that has only 3GB left, or even worse: just 3MB?
BTW, it's not your boot drive (aka Startup Disk) that has only 3GB left, or even worse: just 3MB?
rasjunk said:
This is correct - depending what client you are using, sometimes the entire file size is reserved on your hard drive no matter what, whether you've just started downloading a torrent, are only downloading certain segments of a torrent, or whatever. I was downloading a 56 GB torrent one time and although it took a week, Azureus allocated the full 56 GB on my HD as "used" to make room for the torrent the instant I started the torrent.
clearing caches
most likely you'll want to clear the temp files from the mainmenu screen along with ALL caches...that should clear it up...try the temp files first, as i would think that would be were it "should" be
most likely you'll want to clear the temp files from the mainmenu screen along with ALL caches...that should clear it up...try the temp files first, as i would think that would be were it "should" be
right but like i said i saved it to the network which isnt the hard drive.....and yes it does reserve the space for the entire fiel, but it does so on the network.....not on the hard drive....and when i search for the torrents i downlaoded, nothng shows up with spotlight
azureus...but ive never had this problem before with it.......i think once these files finish downloading im going to delete azureus and then reinstall it.....would this clear up any of thsoe temp files??? i used mainmenu to try and clear those up but it didnt really do anything
this is very frustrating! i am continuing to download the torrent, but my space gets smaller and smaller....i managed to free up about 1.6gb and now im down to 1.1 and i dont know why!! i deleted azureus now, but it didnt free up any space......im so frustrated
It's hard to tell without knowing your system specs but it sounds like your system is using allot of virtual memory and or page outs.
3 gig of hard drive space is not enough for OS X.
I suggest you move some stuff you don't use as much on to your network drive or somewhere else.
Take a look in Active Monitor and see what is taxing your system so much.
Good Luck!
3 gig of hard drive space is not enough for OS X.
I suggest you move some stuff you don't use as much on to your network drive or somewhere else.
Take a look in Active Monitor and see what is taxing your system so much.
Good Luck!
I've had similar issues with my HD previously, a couple of times: whole 10s of Gb disappearing without a reason. It wasn't related to Torrent though, as I don't use this software. Anyway, it might help, maybe your problems are not related to Torrent at all on your machine either ?
For some odd reasons, I would end up with a HUGE log file in my library/logs folder (10-60Gb). No idea about the reason, some bad end of a corrupted file I suppose ? Anyway, the mess would clear up after some time, as the log wouldn't be archived anymore.
I tracked it down one day, by checking the size of my folders: which one was too big for its intended purpose. Maybe you can do that on your HD, to try to single out a huge temp file somewhere ? Its position might tell you which app it comes from.
Regarding the logs, check the archive logs. I think MainMenu proposes to clean up the archived logs anyway.
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For some odd reasons, I would end up with a HUGE log file in my library/logs folder (10-60Gb). No idea about the reason, some bad end of a corrupted file I suppose ? Anyway, the mess would clear up after some time, as the log wouldn't be archived anymore.
I tracked it down one day, by checking the size of my folders: which one was too big for its intended purpose. Maybe you can do that on your HD, to try to single out a huge temp file somewhere ? Its position might tell you which app it comes from.
Regarding the logs, check the archive logs. I think MainMenu proposes to clean up the archived logs anyway.
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