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I keep losing HDD space! HALP!!

iMacBook

iMacBook

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Down by the bay.
Okay. So, earlier today I saw I had a 104.25GB on my hard drive disk.

I just now looked at it and it says 103.17GB.

How did it do that? I didn't install any huge programs. I am torrenting, but I haven't downloaded a 1GB today. What gives!?
 
iMacBook said:
Okay. So, earlier today I saw I had a 104.25GB on my hard drive disk.

I just now looked at it and it says 103.17GB.

How did it do that? I didn't install any huge programs. I am torrenting, but I haven't downloaded a 1GB today. What gives!?
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Wow, the same EXACT thing happened to me. The next time I looked, I was at 102.67GB, then 101.87 GB. Let me know if you find the solution.
 
Alright. So I just closed Firefox (which took 678MB of virtual memory up) and nothing happened. My HDD space is still going down.


I seriously want to know what is going on. I've lost an entire gig today and I have no idea how I lost it.
 
If you are using HandBrake, that could be the culprit. I had 7 GB of space go missing because of it.

Turned out i had some weird folder in hard drive/library/logs/console

Check there.
 
If you are torrenting, the computer will allocate the full file size on the hard drive as soon as you start the download. Stopping the download won't change your free space at all.

The easiest way to check if the disk space was eaten up by virtual memory is to restart the computer. Compare your free space before and after...

While it is good to keep an eye on your free space, you don't have to be too paranoid. Don't worry until the space keeps going down continually, as may be the case when it comes to a runaway log file.

:)
 
If stopping the download won't help, then sounds like quitting iTunes did it. However, if you analyze stuff this closely you may be losing minutes off your life. :p
 
Azureus has an option not to allocate the full file size when downloading a torrent, so it only takes up the space that has been downloaded. I would check that out, I think they call it "Incremental File Creation" or something like that.
 
Coprolite said:
If you are torrenting, the computer will allocate the full file size on the hard drive as soon as you start the download. Stopping the download won't change your free space at all.

The easiest way to check if the disk space was eaten up by virtual memory is to restart the computer. Compare your free space before and after...

While it is good to keep an eye on your free space, you don't have to be too paranoid. Don't worry until the space keeps going down continually, as may be the case when it comes to a runaway log file.

:)
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I've been downloading that torrent for longer than two days (big file). So, I know that isn't the problem.

As for the handbrake thing someone suggested to me, I didn't see a console folder inside my Library folder. Oh well. I'll wait and see if it happens again today.

Right now it is at 104.1GB. Time to wait.
 
wow o_O


on a side note, I wish I had over 100GB free on my laptop :/

Even when I get my MBP and put the 250GB drive in there, I'll probably only have like 50 gigs free. :/
 
I was going to make a new thread, but I might as well post it here...

So I turn my BRAND NEW MBP on, and it says something like 145 gb total, 136 available.

What the hell? Is the OSX taking up 15 gigs? And what about the 9 gigs between total and available - whats happening to that?
 
enklined said:
Is the OSX taking up 15 gigs?
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No, Mac OS X is only about 4 gigs. The rest is iLife '08 (mostly) and iWork '08. It really shouldn't concern you too much at this point - you won't want to go and delete things if you don't know what they are just yet.
 
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