Hi Jewels You could also have something like the following, which I have seen before (thought a bit harder to “locate” without seeing the machine. - A corrupt log file. (an invisible hidden system file). It fills up and should delete itself when not needed. But I’ve seen them fill up. Then a restart clears some, until it starts filling the log up again and using space. (sometimes in GBs of data). - a program that downloads updates / episodes /podcasts etc. Have seen various ones of these, that once it deletes some, it goes and downloads new ones. Therefor constantly always filling up space and removing it. - iCloud syncing of various files. - Photo syncing of various sizes - Dropbox large files.
Just a few off the top of my head. There are quite a few others that can also affect it. You could try Whatsize, as it sometimes help locate files that can be causing issues. https://whatsizemac.com Hope that helps. Kind regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone XS --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <[email protected]> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Apple** > On 28 Feb 2019, at 4:28 pm, Julie Bedford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Susan, > > Like you, I keep my larger files, such as movies, photos etc on externals - > even loaded my itunes on a separate hard drive which is still internal (but I > have those spare drive spaces in my MacPro) I just have my work files on the > SSD and if they get too big, I then transfer them onto an external HD. Thing > is it never used to happen so often as it does now. I can do a restart and > get 5gb spare back on the hard drive, whereas before doing the restart I > would have maybe 200mb. I would clear the cache before restarting, but it > only gives me back say 300mb. One day I just happened to glance at the > capacity of the HD (showing on the bottom of the finder display) and I > watched it going down and yet I was not using my computer at all. Maybe I > have a haunted MacPro !! > > I just put up with it until I thought about asking WAMUG today. Yes I am > speaking of HD memory and not RAM. I have 16gb of RAM and that seems to work > ok for me. > > I thought there maybe something wrong with the SSD, but I have always found > HDs either work or fail. It did not seem normal to me either. Guess I’ll > put up with it until towards the end of the year when hopefully Apple will > offer a great Mac Pro. Out of interest, do you think it wise to rebuild my > Mac ? I’m guessing it will work with the new OSes for the next few years. > > Cheers > Jewels > > >> On 28 Feb 2019, at 3:30 PM, Susan Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Jewels, 256gb should be fine to run your applications if you don’t store >> a lot of music and photos on the HD. It’s puzzling that you would be having >> problems with the HD filling up. >> >> I have a MacBook with 128gb that doesn’t have any problems with running out >> of memory even using Office 365, photoshop and Lightroom. All of my photos >> and documents are kept on an external drive, except maybe for a few files I >> may be working on. That means my iPhoto library and iTunes library are not >> on the internal HD. >> >> The mysterious way your HD fills up is NOT normal, providing that like me >> you don’t keep large iPhoto and iTunes libraries on the main HD. Even so, a >> 246GB HD is quite a lot of space. >> >> Closing down applications does not increase HD space. You are speaking about >> memory - are you talking about your RAM or HD? >> >> Cheers, Susan. >> >> >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >>> On 28 Feb 2019, at 3:10 pm, Julie Bedford <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Susan >>> >>> Apologies, I should have said - it’s only a 256 gb - I have got a 1TB SSD >>> which I’ve not put in as yet, as still trying to decide on whether to >>> rebuild the MacPro - waiting for Apple to give specs on their new MacPro >>> later on in the year. However, I suspect one will be >>> limited in upgrading the new model as like the previous recent models. I >>> use various applications, but when I get low, I close the apps I’m not >>> using, but still doesn’t make a difference. >>> >>> This didn’t happen previously, it is only really in the last year or so. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Jewels >>> >>>> On 28 Feb 2019, at 2:06 PM, Susan Hastings <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Julie, it would help to know the size of your HD and how much of it you >>>> are using for your applications and documents. Click on your HD icon and >>>> go to ‘get info’ which will give you that information. Then post it here >>>> so that people can offer practical solutions. >>>> >>>> At least a tenth of your HD space needs to be free to be able to run your >>>> applications. You can keep stuff such as your photos and documents on an >>>> external HD to free up space on your main HD. >>>> >>>> Cheers, Susan. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPad >>>> >>>>> On 28 Feb 2019, at 1:49 pm, Julie Bedford <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Wondering if anyone has any ideas. I have a Mac Pro 2012 which has a >>>>> SSD. (El Capitan) >>>>> >>>>> Over the last year, I keep getting a box appear saying I’m almost out of >>>>> memory. I can release some by using Clean My Mac2 but it is not >>>>> until I do a restart will I get back all the memory available (can be >>>>> around 4 gb) I have watched the Mac while doing nothing and see the >>>>> available HD space diminish. >>>>> >>>>> It can be a bit of a pain having to do a restart in the middle of doing >>>>> something just to regain the HD space. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> Jewels >>>>> >>>>> -- 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> >>>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>>> >>>> -- 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> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- 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> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- 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> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- 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> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- 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> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
