Hi John, You had the same problem back on 22 May 2010. Did you find a reason then?
Are you using Parallels & have a Virus Program running such a McAfee, which could be generating a large file? Check Activity Monitor and the Console logs, they should show you what is using up your CPU time. If there are lot's of Diagnostic Logs, they might be able to point you to an application that is probably crashing repeatedly and causing the problem. Maybe you can read the first few lines of a couple of such logs and check what's going on. You could also download & install OmniDiskSweeper.When you start OmniDiskSweeper, it presents you with a list of disks attached to your machine. Double-click on one, and a new window opens with a “column” view listing every folder and file you can access, which it sorts by size as you watch. You then simply browse through the folders and files and delete the large ones which you are no longer using. If a file is part of the system, it'll say so on the panel (in the list of Packages the file belongs to), so you won't accidentally get rid of something that would make your system stop working. <http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidisksweeper/> Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core i7 2.66GHz / 4GB / 1067 MHz DDR3 / 500GB Serial ATA Drive @ 7200rpm OS X 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 14/06/2010, at 2:16 PM, John Thompson wrote: > > Over the past three days my Hard drive remaining capacity has dropped from > 271 Gb to under 205 Gb. During the past two hours, with no activity, it has > dropped another 500 Mb. > Is there the possibility of some insidious program getting into the system > that pulls some sort of Stephen King trick of eating up space? > > Regards > John Thompson > > > Mac Mini > 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo > 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 > Mac OS X 10.6.3 > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
