This is due to the disk maintenance that was not happening. That's why I use Macaroni with a Laptop.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andy Arnold Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 11:04 PM To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers Subject: Re: [MacGroup] Disk Full Error Thanks Ed and George, I'll try these suggestions. Oddly, the behavior seems to have stopped on its own and the HD is back up to around 9GB without any fiddling from me... how strange! On Aug 3, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Ed Wiser wrote: > System.log > > Here is a link about this. > > As someone in the discussion about this on the page. > I use > Http://www.atomicbird.com/macaroni > For this it works well for laptops. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected] > ] On Behalf Of Andy Arnold > Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 5:49 PM > To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers > Subject: [MacGroup] Disk Full Error > > I have a MBP with almost 25GB free HD space (or at least there was > that much 2 days ago). Today I get a message saying something like my > startup disk is almost full. As I watch, the space available is > shrinking right before my eyes. I did a re-bong, repaired permissions, > ran cron-scripts, etc. Nothing seemed to work, I freed up some space > by deleting some unused apps, but my MBP has a case of "Honey, I > shrank the HD!" > > I downloaded Disk INventory X to see what was taking up so much space. > The only culprits that seem to stand out are a System.log file that is > over 11.6 GB and a .asl file that is 4.1GB > > I really don't know what I am doing in Console, so I have hesitated to > delete these files... > > Any suggestions on how to reverse this trend before my laptop > collapses in on itself and sucks our entire universe into something > the size of a grain of salt? > thanks for any help > > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
