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Vanishing Hard Disk Space
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Running nothing, have 1GB free. My machine suddenly says I have too little space left. I look, I have 200MB free. I click on Applications to open the folder and I suddenly jump back to 1GB. Then throughout the day I keep shifting from 1GB and 200MB. A restart fixes nothing, and a virus scan turns up nothing. Ideas?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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You have way too little free hard drive space. The amount of free space on your drive will be consumed by virtual memory as your work session continues. I used to run my iBook that way and things were fine (although the messages were annoying). Most strongly recommend against doing it. Free up some space or get a large drive.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Boston
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OSX becomes really wonky when there is little hard drive space and a gig is way too little for it to manage virtual memory. I think I read here or somewhere that you need 10 or 15% free and if free spaces falls under that threshold OSX starts acting erratically
You need to either upgrade the drive, off load stuff to an external drive or start removing some files that you don't need any longer.
I like Disk Sweeper from the omni group. The free version shows you what's taking up your space, but does not allow you to delete the files within the app - the paid version allows the deletion. Not worth the price imo, but the free version is nice.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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I know people had a lot of problems back in the 10.0-10.1 days with low drive space conditions, but other than having to dismiss the alert every so often, I did not experience any erratic behavior or data loss on my iBook (running Panther) when it was running with less than a GB free. The OS should not fail simply because drive space is low, after all. I am lot happier now that I have at least 1.5GBs free at all times, however.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Washington, DC
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The 10-15% percent rule doesn't really wash anymore, now that drives are getting much larger and the actual drive capacity in people's machines gets more varied. Like Big Mac said, first just make sure you have at least 1.5 GB free. 3 GB would be even better.
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"One ticket to Washington, please. I have a date with destiny."
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Seattle
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Runnning with disk space under 1GB free might degrade performance but it will not cause remaining free space to be eaten up so quickly.
I see no problem until I have less than 400MB free, then the computer will slowly become sluggish.
Two things kill my free disk space quickly: Safari when I have tons of tabs open and the java virtual machine. If you are running any java app then you can loose 600MB of disk space in just a few minutes.
Are you running something like aquisition or maybe a java applet in a web browser?
Are you running some odd beta or shareware software that may have a memory leak?
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You can take the dude out of So Cal, but you can't take the dude outta the dude, dude!
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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