Hi Daniel, You may have a valid point there. There are a few podcasts I download regularly. I do not use icloud though. Rarely use dropbox or photo syncing. I’ll download whatsize and see what I come up with.
I need to have a good look at this when I’ve finished up with my work a little later. Thank you for all your suggestions - much appreciated. Cheers Jewels > On 28 Feb 2019, at 4:45 PM, Daniel Kerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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> -- 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>
