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Lost 10GB of Storage
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this morning i had around 10GB of memory left on my ibook, i came home today to be greated by the message telling me that my memory is almost out. i checked my memory and it says i only have 195 mb left. i dont understand, im actualy scared. please help me
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Last edited by joe_farley; Jun 20, 2006 at 03:41 PM.
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are you talking about RAM (memory) or hard drive space?
ps - adding the area of help you need to the title also helps
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Originally Posted by uicandrew
are you talking about RAM (memory) or hard drive space?
ps - adding the area of help you need to the title also helps
Silly question as he mentioned he had 10 gigs to start.
My guess is you have some error log filling up.
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Originally Posted by Socially Awkward Solo
Silly question as he mentioned he had 10 gigs to start.
My guess is you have some error log filling up.
Yes, do a file search for anything over 100 MB, you should find it easy. I had an error log fill up 7.5 gigs one time on accident. It was quite strange.
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cheers for the help, it isnt RAM its ROM, how do i go about doing a search for things over 100mb?
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OmniDiskSweeper. It's technically shareware, but the free version includes all you need. It will scan your drive for large files, files you can then manually access in the Finder and remove.
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Bad, bad, BAD title Joe. Really BAD, BAD, BAD title. And we have a rule about using only informative and descriptive titles on threads.
Further, I doubt you're talking about "ROM" either. I think you're talking about your hard drive, right?
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How many RAM do you have. When you open Activity Monitor (Apps > Utilities). What does is say for your VM size?
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iMac G5 2.0 Ghz 20", 2 GB RAM, 400 GB, OS X 10.4.5, iPod with color screen 60 GB
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thanks for the help everyone. yea the title is bad sorry i wrote it in a hurry. my vm size is 3.24 GB
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thanks for changing it btw. thats cleaver
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k, i found somthing called 'console.log.4' which is 10.1GB. im not sure how to delete it. any help?
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Originally Posted by joe_farley
k, i found somthing called 'console.log.4' which is 10.1GB. im not sure how to delete it. any help?
Drag it to the trash.
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Curious...how the heck does that file get to 10GB? It's just text!
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Originally Posted by UNTeMac
Curious...how the heck does that file get to 10GB? It's just text!
Open a shell and type
yes > ~/Desktop/bs.txt
and let it run for a while. Check how big that file gets. Even text can use a lot of space when you right millions of lines. 
If some process is running that causes log file entries to be written at a very high rate and you let that app run for a while, you'll get a huge log file.
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