unibody mbp out of hdd space?

[mbpnewbie]

I have 150gb of free space on my hdd yet OSX gives me little popups everyonce in a while telling me this. It also disrupts my torrent downloads. Any idea what it could be?

 

[MrM]

First word of advice- Stop using torrents.
Second word of advice- Boot from the original software disk and verify/repair the HD.

 

[dissdnt]

First off, don't listen to this guy about Torrents.. hehe.

Anyway just go into your Applications/Utilities and run the Disk Utilities and click on your drive, then hit verify disk permissions, then run repair disk permissions.

See if that helps.

 

[bugout]

First word of advice- Stop using torrents.

I vote this for "lol" of the day...

 

[stevemiller]

this may not be relevant since you mentioned your disk is still showing lots of free space, but i have had a similar situation of a disk inexplicably running out of space. in my case, it turned out adobe after effects was creating a cache file that was growing out of control (like 70gb) as an animation was rendering. seemed to be a one time glitch in the particular file i was working from, and the cache file deleted itself when i quit the render process.

anyway, perhaps do a spotlight search for files larger than several gb the next time you get the error; your particular torrent software might be creating a similar caching error?

 

[mbpnewbie]

ok, here's a screenshot of the different errors that come up..

 

[MrM]

Since you like South Park so much... Just go here.

http://allsp.deltavid.com/


Did you try anything that was suggested in the above posts? That website I just linked will help with my First word of advice.

 

[suMMx]

First word of advice- Stop using torrents.
.

that might be the worst advice ever posted

 

[alphaod]

First word of advice- Stop using torrents.

What's wrong with using torrents?

 

[Patriks7]

What's wrong with using torrents?

Exactly my thought. How can I have some "fun" if I'm nowhere close to an internet connection?

 

[r.j.s]

It might mean that you will be almost out, if all your torrents complete - warning you that all your free space has been allocated, but not used ... yet.

 

[dissdnt]

If it's only happening in uTorrent, remember Utorrent is in very early Beta.. maybe try using Transmission until it's out of beta.

 

[Kevlar]

ok, here's a screenshot of the different errors that come up..

It's a known problem in uTorrent.

 

[r.j.s]

It's a known problem in uTorrent.

So, it can be safely ignored?

 

[mbpnewbie]

Just wanted to let everyone know that a clean install resolved the issue. I tried a clean install with time machine recover console, but found the problem kept repeating itself. It appears Utorrent was the issue. Thanks all.

 

[Patriks7]

If it's only happening in uTorrent, remember Utorrent is in very early Beta.. maybe try using Transmission until it's out of beta.

I second using Transmission. I used to use Vuze or Azureus or w/e, and boy was that thing a resource hog. Transmission is small and VERY simple, as if it was designed directly by Apple