Thanks eveyone for your help - turns out Mark it was Tech Tool doing this - I turned it off and delated the files in said folder not I managed to claim back 10Gb and it's not filling up any longer - cool thanks for that Cheers Liam
On Mar 31, 8:15 am, Mark Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > Tech Tool Pro had a habit of filling my hard disk with it's own files. > > Check here to see if you are suffering the same: > > Look in System/Library/Application Support/TechTool Protection/ > > to see if you have folders for every hard drive (internal and > external) that TTP has recognised. They may be full of backup files > you can delete (older ones) > > Yours > Mark > > Mark Schofield, Hove > > On Mar 30, 6:28 pm, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > perhaps some other users have lots of data in their trashes. thats been the > > case for unaccounted chunks of space for me in the past. > > > careful terminal commands around folders named .Trashes would help if you > > are terminal savvy, but there might be a nice friendly GUI tool to > > investigate this area too. > > > On 30 March 2011 17:21, Alastair Weller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Liam > > > > See if you can run GrandPerspective > > >http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ > > > > This gives you a graphical overview of hierarchical disk use and useful > > > for > > > highlighting directories conusming large amounts of space. > > > > Alastair > > > PS Try Space Sniffer if you want the same thing on Windows > > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Liam Kelly < > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> I have an Intel Core Duo Mac Book Pro running OS Snow Leopard with > > >> latest updates and suddenly over the past month has slowly filled up > > >> to the point it wont start as there's no room on it - I am running > > >> Tech Tool on it running Directory Backup, and I used DaisyDisc to > > >> check what was taking up the space... and apart from one user's iPhoto > > >> library of 32Gb, nothing particularly popped out to me and as I said > > >> now I can't even restart the machine > > > >> I am truely hoping I don't have to do a rebuild - any thoughts from > > >> the brains out there please? > > >> Liam > > > >> -- > > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > >> [email protected]. > > >> For more options, visit this group at > > >>http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > > -- > > > P Before you print think about the ENVIRONMENT > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]. > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
