Hi, I did have a look at activity monitor today when I happened to be sitting in front of my computer and heard the fan spin up.
I'm sure I'm missing something, but it wasn't apparent to me which piece of info showed the disk space usage. Do I have to do something special to see that item? Best, Erik Burggraaf > On Nov 26, 2015, at 6:23 AM, Tyler Thompson <tktpianostud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Have you checked your activity monitor? It can show you what process is > eating up all that space. Once you’re aware of which process is causing the > issue we can start narrowing down a good solution. > > >> On Nov 26, 2015, at 12:19 AM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com >> <mailto:e...@erik-burggraaf.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi, I'm having a very strange problem. At first I believed it might be my >> 4-year-old SSD showing it's age, but I don't know... >> >> Last week my mac reported that I was low on disk space. So, I moved 20 gb >> of files off into storage drives. An hour after moving all the files, my >> mac again reported low on disk space, and when I looked, sure enough my disk >> appeard to be full. >> >> Today I moved 11 gb more files off to storage and was breathing easy when my >> mac once again reported my disk to be full and sure enough it seems to be. >> >> I'm not putting any more files onto my disk though since the first time this >> happened. >> >> I've run apples disk checking utilities and they tell me my disk is OK for >> what that's worth. My disk's size appears normal. I ran a malware bytes >> scan and it didn't find anything suspicious. >> >> I'd appreciate any suggestions, as if this keeps up, I won't have enough >> disk space left to run an operating system. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Erik Burggraaf >> >> >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara >> Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> <mailto:caraqu...@caraquinn.com> >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara > Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. 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