Hard Drive space disapearance
Hi All Just emailing because as of last night my iBook is losing HD space. It got down to zero KB and I had a word doc to save so I deleted 400MB of space but as I did it was chewed up instantly. I then attacked my music direct from the itunes folder and did a secure delete which liberated 250MB of space so I finally could save. Today I was using it and deleted 35Mb of files which actually used a further 35MB of HD after emptying the trash. A few more deletions and all of the sudden I have only 80MB available. It had 3.4 GB 2 days ago. Any ideas where its going? It's only happened since 10.3.8 and this laptop doesn't like it. I've already had a screen resolution bug which I think had something to do with the Ati Driver updates. Not having much luck with this Clamshell but would like its space back. Thankful for any assistance. Regards Christian
Re: Hard Drive space disapearance
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:16:53PM +0800, Christian Kotz wrote: Just emailing because as of last night my iBook is losing HD space. This might be due to a memory leak: a situation where software keeps trying to grab more and more memory. When the computer runs out of RAM, it allocates virtual memory by using files on the disk as fake RAM. To find out if this is the culprit, go to the Finder and choose 'Go to Folder' from the 'Go' menu. Enter /var/vm and press OK. You will then see the folder. Put the folder into 'List' view (or do 'Get Info...') to find out how much disk space it is using. If it is 3.4Gb, then you know where you disk space has gone! This could be resolved by rebooting. But the culprit application might strike again! Further diagnosis (e.g. to track down the culprit) can be done using the Activity Monitor (Applications Utilities).
Re: Hard Drive space disapearance
On 14/02/2005 8:16 PM, Christian Kotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Just emailing because as of last night my iBook is losing HD space. It got down to zero KB and I had a word doc to save so I deleted 400MB of space but as I did it was chewed up instantly. I then attacked my music direct from the itunes folder and did a secure delete which liberated 250MB of space so I finally could save. Today I was using it and deleted 35Mb of files which actually used a further 35MB of HD after emptying the trash. A few more deletions and all of the sudden I have only 80MB available. It had 3.4 GB 2 days ago. Any ideas where its going? It's only happened since 10.3.8 and this laptop doesn't like it. I've already had a screen resolution bug which I think had something to do with the Ati Driver updates. Not having much luck with this Clamshell but would like its space back. Thankful for any assistance. Regards Christian Funny you should mention that. Well not really funny funny, but funny. I read about that last night on the web. It has to do with System.log files. If you do a search for System.log with Visibility showing Visible and Invisible files you should get something that shows: System.log System 0.log system1.log If you open the folder these are in you should be able to do a Get Info on them, and you'll find one will be the missing size. Delete them, restart and things should be back to normal. Here is the info on it: http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.68a64b1e/8 http://discussions.info.apple.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]@.68a64b1e/40 Hope that helps! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Re: Hard Drive space disapearance
There is a also conflict with a driver from iShock that causes this. If you've got iShock I would be very suspicious it was this. Check the Apple discussion boards for more info. cheers Jude
