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Dissappearing hard drive space
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Jan 17, 2003, 09:50 PM
 
I'm running 10.2.3 on a 333Mhz iMac with a 6GB hard drive and 288MB RAM. So as you can probably see it's a little tight for space!

An odd thing is happening - my available hard drive space seems to be shrinking. I had about 1GB left after I had installed OS X, and everytime I power up I seem to have lost a little bit more. I'm now down to 799MB.

I'm assuming it has something to do with OS X caching stuff or filling some kind of temp items folder? Is there anything I can safely delete, or is there some utility I could download and use to reclaim drive space?
     
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Jan 18, 2003, 12:27 AM
 
That should be OS X's virtual memory; if you restart, you'll get the space back.

It's too bad you can't put more RAM in, because you're basically going to either have to live with it. Either that, or get a larger hard drive.
     
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Jan 18, 2003, 12:43 AM
 
Grr, there's a new thread about this every day!

Please do some research before posting.
     
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Jan 18, 2003, 12:50 AM
 
You need to get OmniDiskSweeper to find and delete the cruft on your system. Available at http://www.omnigroup.com/

Be careful to only delete stuff that you understand.

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Jan 18, 2003, 01:41 AM
 
Originally posted by wataru:
Grr, there's a new thread about this every day!

Please do some research before posting.
Actually I did search the forums before I posted, but found little info.
     
   
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