Thank you Barry, Ronni and Alexander for your suggestions,
I've finally got the problem licked. I was unable to see anything
amiss with Disk Inventory X or OmniDiskSweeper, the Activity monitor
was almost asleep, there were no error messages (that made any sense
to me) and I didn't want to get familiar with Terminal.
I piked, and rang apple Tech support (AppleCare really pays off).
There was a ~158GB file of 55295 files of 2.7MB generated by the
latest version of McAfee - invisible in the Quarantine folder except
when booted as a Super user. It took about 4 hours to move these to
the trash and a further 3 to empty the trash. Tech support (by this
time around 10pm EAST), I was talking to a specialist in Cork - seems
Apple is so busy. The suspect may be Parallels 5 and an interaction
with McAfee. I'm sending a screen dump to Pica for Kelly to forward
to the US. The portion of the log saved show 44 files generated at
the same time but all with different names.
Again thank you all for your help,
Best wishes,
James
Hi James,
You can get the total amount of disk used by folder using Terminal :
polaris:~ alex$ du -sh *
2.6G Downloads
...
polaris:~ alex$ cd Downloads/
polaris:Downloads alex$ du -sh *
548K About Downloads.pdf
2.5G iphone_sdk_3.1.2_with_xcode_3.2.1__snow_leopard__10m2003.dmg
...
polaris:Downloads alex$
As you can see my downloads folder holds 2.6GB out of which 2.5GB
are made up of the iPhone SDK.
Maybe a little technical using Terminal commands, but at least you
don't have to install any new software.
Have fun
Alex
On 12 Dec 2009, at 10:26, James I Fraser wrote:
Please would anyone have any idea how 155GB of free space on a
500GB drive fill up in 5 hours with no user activity? The laptop -
a MacBook Pro, late 2007, 4GB Ram running 10.6.2 was wirelessly
connected to the internet and McAfee ran finding 431 malwares, but
on the backup drive! To email I've moved 81GB of pictures to free
up drive space.
Best wishes,
James
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