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G5 with disappearing disk space
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I got the 250GB drive on my G5 figuring I'd never have to worry about space again. And I really didn't pay attention to disk space until I noticed that I only had 137GB left. I hit "Get Info" and found 97GB used.
I repaired permissions, booted up from my iPod so I could use Disk Utility to verify my drive (which it did). I manually totaled up the folder sizes from the Finder list view and only came up with 23GB used.
I'm wondering where the extra 74GB is.
Does OS 10.3's Journaling use up that much extra drive space? Are there invisible swap/cache files I don't know about? Anyone else notice this?
Please pardon a newbie to the world of massive IDE storage (the biggest drive on my 7600 was an 18GB SCSI).
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There are invisible folders, swap files, and other assorted stuff. Plus, any other user's account won't be included in your addition. However, 74 GB is a lot of space to go missing.
Use OmniDiskSweeper to find out what is eating up your disk space.
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Originally posted by dtriska:
There are invisible folders, swap files, and other assorted stuff. Plus, any other user's account won't be included in your addition. However, 74 GB is a lot of space to go missing.
Use OmniDiskSweeper to find out what is eating up your disk space.
Holy dusty broomsticks, Batman! OmniDiskSweeper - that is one excellent utility!
In my /private/var/tmp folder, there is a 73.6GB "spacesuckingfile"
I suppose this is one of the perils of high-speed internet access, but I wonder how it got there, and how it got by OS X's firewall, Norton AntiVirus, and the NAT router.
Thanks for the rapid response!
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G5 1.8 | 512MB | 250GB | ATi 9600Pro | Bluetooth | OS X 10.3.1
7600/120 | XLR8 MACh Carrier G3 300/200 | ATi Rage 128 Orion | XPostFacto OS X 10.2.8
(apple ][+ | Mac Plus | Mac IIsi | Newton 2100)
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G5 1.8 | 512MB | 250GB | ATi 9600Pro | Bluetooth | OS X 10.3.1
7600/120 | XLR8 MACh Carrier G3 300/200 | ATi Rage 128 Orion | XPostFacto OS X 10.2.8
(apple ][+ | Mac Plus | Mac IIsi | Newton 2100)
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Thanks for the tip guys... with this I just realized my VPC was eating up 15Gigs of space lol!
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Step 1: Place Norton application in trash.
Step 2: Empty trash.
There is no step 3.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Pretty fricken' funny of Norton engineers to call the file "spacesuckingfile"
Yet another reason why there are no Norton products on any of my machines.
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