Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Shay Telfer
Try Disk Inventory X http://www.derlien.com/ Have fun, Shay On 6/08/2009 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: For the last few months the available space on my HD has remained fairly static at about half the total (~80GB). I have made no recent downloads of any large applications or other files

Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Ronda Brown
On 06/08/2009, at 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: For the last few months the available space on my HD has remained fairly static at about half the total (~80GB). I have made no recent downloads of any large applications or other files but suddenly my HD is almost full (147GB). My

Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 06/08/2009, at 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 06/08/2009, at 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: For the last few months the available space on my HD has remained fairly static at about half the total (~80GB). I have made no recent downloads of any large applications or other files

Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Ronda Brown
On 07/08/2009, at 8:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 06/08/2009, at 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 06/08/2009, at 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: For the last few months the available space on my HD has remained fairly static at about half the total (~80GB). I have made no

Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Barry Sexstone
Thanks Ronni I will try one of these. I am baffled why the sudden increase in disk usage but when I find the culprit it may become clearer. Barry iMac 5,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 667 MHz 2GB 667 MHz 150GB HD OS X 10.5.7 On 06/08/2009, at 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 06/08/2009, at

Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Barry Sexstone
Thanks Peter I have run disk warrior with no apparent change but will also try your other suggestion. Regards Barry On 07/08/2009, at 8:48 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 06/08/2009, at 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 06/08/2009, at 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: For the last few

Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Howells
No doubt using the software shown by Ronni will help BUT am I missing something here ? I would have thought that the very first simplest first check would be double click on drive ( or use finder ) to show the hard drive index Make sure you have the size column as part of the display (

Re-Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Barry Sexstone
Using Disk Inventory X I discovered a a complete back up of my system. This did not appear in Finder and I am at a loss to know how it occurred. It was dated 1st August (is this Mac's equivalent to April 1st?). Of course this back up immediately doubled my disc usage! Many thanks to

Re: Re-Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Rob Findlay
Just saw your message. I guess I would have done my dough! :) On 07/08/2009, at 12:58 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Using Disk Inventory X I discovered a a complete back up of my system. This did not appear in Finder and I am at a loss to know how it occurred. It was dated 1st August (is

Re: Hard disk suddenly full

2009-08-06 Thread Rob Findlay
Doesn't show the hidden files, hence why you need WhatSize (which is great). I'd put money on it being a log file in /var/log/asl On 07/08/2009, at 12:13 PM, Robert Howells wrote: No doubt using the software shown by Ronni will help BUT am I missing something here ? I would have