Thanks, Bill!
I had downloaded OnyX last Friday, but the standard cleaning routines
didn't help. I read the MacRumors thread about this problem, and
started up OxyX again, and had it delete log files, and I ended up
with 128GB free! Up from about 18GB - great! I still have quite a few
of those log files, but I have a reasonable amount of free space
again, so the whole machine should run faster. I realize that I still
haven't solved the problem, though. But I'm well on my way!
I think half the battle is knowing what to search for online to get
solutions to problems.
But thanks a million! This group is the best!
Wendi
On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:00 PM, <[email protected]
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From: Bill Rising <[email protected]>
Date: March 23, 2012 4:07:26 PM GMT-04:00
To: Topics related to Apple and Macintosh computers <[email protected]
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Subject: Re: [MacGroup] MacGroup Digest, Vol 35, Issue 23
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On Mar 23, 2012, at 15:23 , Wendi Williams wrote:
Thanks, Bill!
I tried running the daily, weekly and monthly maintenance routines,
but to no avail. So I made the hidden files visible again and
checked further to see where that 135GB lives. This is the path:
private/var/log/asl/
I started going through them in search of a very large file, but
there are 2,059 files there! They all have names that appear to
include dates, i.e., 2012.03.23.U501.asl. It says they are Adobe
Photoshop styles files, and they go all the way back to Feb., 2010.
Some of them have an additional 10 digits after "asl." and those
appear to be larger files - in the vicinity of 350MB each. Do you
know if I can delete these files?
From what I can tell, these are Apple system logs. There is some
good advice about what to do here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=641936
I would pay attention to the instructions from 'plinden' which have
you stop syslogd etc. I would ignore the instructions from
'Stachelsk' which tells you to blindly delete everything in your log
directory.
Keep reading through the discussion, because you probably should
look through some of the logs to see what is causing them to grow so
fast.
Bill
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