Hi Ronni,
Thanks for your reply. I know that this problem occurred a while back
but then all seemed to be okay so went no further. I do not have Parallels or
any Virus programs running so will check your suggestion on OmniDiskSweeper and
see what happens.
Incidentally, the HD capacity has dropped another 3 GB overnight so will look
for Diagnostic logs and check.
Regards
John
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
>>
>>
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