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The space on my hard drive is Being spirited away for no reason!

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jonahtron

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Jun 2, 2011
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After a very slow boot up I press Cmd-I on my boot drive and just watch over 30 gig just reduce reduce down to nothing... Then I get the "hard drive is almost full error message, and a window telling me that my startup disk has no more space available for application memory, so quite some applications (no apps are running, I am running lion from an 80 gig SSd with all my files on an external hd)

Each time I do a (painful) reboot the memory is back to how it should be but it's only a minute before te process starts again....
Anyone ever seen anything like this before?

Do u need any specs of my MacBook?
It's early 2008, 4 month old SSd, lion, 4gig ram,
 
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I should have mentioned that the MacBook has become unusably slow. So Internet is a no no. Any program I run wants to automatically close due to the physical memory being reported as low...
 
jonahtron said:
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I should have mentioned that the MacBook has become unusably slow. So Internet is a no no. Any program I run wants to automatically close due to the physical memory being reported as low...
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For performance issues, there are a few things you can check:
  • Check your Login Items under System Preferences > Accounts to see what you have automatically launching.
  • Also check /Library/LaunchAgents/ and /Users/yourusername/Library/LaunchAgents/ for items launching at startup
  • Look at what widgets you may have running.
  • Launch Activity Monitor and change "My Processes" at the top to "All Processes". Then look to see what may be consuming system resources.
  • Take a look at the System Memory tab at the bottom of Activity Monitor to see if you have excessive "page outs", a sign that you may benefit from more RAM.
  • Make sure you're not running any 3rd party antivirus app, as many of those will drain resources, reducing performance. They're not needed to protect your Mac.
 
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Thanks for the help. Nothing really
Worked so I just re installed lion
 
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