G'Day Ronni I am intrigued with your comments. I am running parallels/win XP (reluctantly) and have an antivirus program running. I have not noticed any increase in the parallels disk usage apart from that I would expect. Should I be worried or take any precautions to prevent my virus checker running away with my disk space??
Regards Barry On 14/06/2010, at 2:34 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: > > 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> > -- 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>
