The remaining available space on the Mac I use for disc ripping is slowly decreasing. Should be 25 GB free; now there's less than 9 GB. Has the latest OSX version, is mostly used for web browsing and miscellaneous word-processing in addition to DVD processing.
I can't find any clear signs of huge files left abandoned somewhere. The behavior is more like some files being generated little by little and not deleted. Available disc space decreases only a little bit at a time, not 4.37 GB worth.
I ran Norton Disk Doctor, and it fixed several errors, but didn't reclaim any space.
Any advice about how to investigate where the space has gone, and how to retrieve it? Any reliable freeware out there?
ALSO: a recommended delocalizer?
ALSO: Finder doesn't automatically update remaining disc space on my hard drive, although it does on my FireWire drives. Emptying Trash seems to be the best way to correct the disc space number. Is there some easy tweak to get this to be more consistently correct?
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There's an article about this on today's home page at www.macfixit.com.
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Use OmniDiskSweeper to check what is taking up the space in your HD.
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Originally Posted by Frobozz
WhatSize seems to be a reasonable freeware alternative to OmniDiskSweeper. -
Originally Posted by schmeg
PS the culprit could be almost anything. I know for a fact that the Baldur's Gate II game cache files can grow to around 4gig, and it never gets reclaimed until you reboot. -
PPS: You can force the finder to update the 'available disk space' info by viewing the root folder of that HD (i.e. just click on the HD name in your sidebar, or desktop if you use desktop icons)
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Originally Posted by thoughtonMark V
10.4.10 OS X 1.25GHz G4 768MB DDR SRAM Pioneer DVR-106D and external DVR-111D -
Originally Posted by sjk
SJK, I'd encourage you to post those comments here. The MacFixIt link has now aged to subscription-only access... I do indeed use Toast 6.0.7 for burning.
And thanks for the tip, thoughton. That's ever so slightly quicker than my make-a-folder-and-trash-it alternative. Great!
This Mac does get shut off each night.
I'll try one of the disc-space utilities and delocalize, and see how that improved things. Thanks for your help, all. -
Thanks for the tip on WhatSize. 359 MB of demo Garage band songs! I don't even use that app.
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Originally Posted by schmeg
Toast 6 - disk space usage
Authored by: sjk on Tuesday, March 01 2005 @ 10:24 PM PST
Another space-stealing culprit can be temporary files created by Roxio Toast that aren't automatically removed. Places to check are under the Temporary Items directory at the root of mounted volumes and the Roxio Converted Items directory. The latter's location can be changed under the Converted Items tab of Preferences. There's a dropdown menu for selecting when items are to be automatically delete and also a Delete Converted Items Now button to do it immediately. However, the button won't delete items created during the current Toast (6.0.9) session, only after it's restarted. That becomes significant when burning to a shared recorder. Images copied to the remote system will accumulate in its converted items directory and aren't deleted when Toast quits, even with a When Toast Quits setting for the Delete Converted Items preference. Now that I've observing that behavior consistently for several weeks I'll be reporting it to Roxio.
Hopefully that's helpful disk space management information for other Toast users.
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I had the same problem, I think. It started after I upgraded to 10.3.8. Everytime I would do anything I would lose storage space. Most of the time it would create these gigantic (5-30 GB!) log files. It was user corruption. You can either start a new user and migrate files over from your old user via the shared user (but not the library log files!) or you can reinstall the system and erase. I struggled with it for a while with Disk Warrior, Norton, etc. and eventually I just reinstalled. I am no longer having the problem.
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Originally Posted by Mark V
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Do you really leave you computer on that long?
All the fans stop and the drives cease spinning when the computer sleeps, so it is completely silent. Given that waking up from sleep allows me to back up and running in about 15 seconds vs a couple of minutes for a cold boot, that is my choice for saving electricity and enjoying the silence.
I've had one hard crash in the exactly two years I've had this particular Mac, running 16-24 hours per day. Can't say that about the ol' 8500 running 8.x through 9.x. (which I always shut down because the fans kept spinning even when put to sleep).
Mirror Drive Door dual 1.25GHz G4, 2 GB RAM, started with OS X 10.3.4 now at 10.3.8
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