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My 1.2 ghz, 12" iBook's 30 GB HD had ~12 gigs of free space minutes ago. I had ripped a DVD to an external hard-drive using DVDBackup and DVD2OneX, and hadn't noticed a difference. I did a second one, and got an error at 96%, at which point I noticed my main HD's free space had decreased to 4.96 GB. I've looked in all the usual places, but haven't been able to find anything that could take that much space; I've even used used Onyx to clear various caches and still nothing.
I've asked this question over at neowin.net as well ( http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=278157) and still have nothing. I've tried Techtool Pro 4, and nothing came up as wrong there, I've used Whatsize, and the missing 8 gigs is also missing from that, AKA adding up the used space from Whatsize, adding the virtual RAM and adding the free space result in an 8 gig descrepency in HD's size.
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Have you tried restarting? That might also reset virtual memory plus potentially clean out left over files from the video opps.
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I've restarted 20 odd times in since it first happened, in the pursuit of following the advice of the people at neowin.net.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
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Try Onyx or similar to get rid of excess cache files? It must be something like this that has eaten up the space..
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The worst thing about having a failing memory is..... no, it's gone.
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What happened to people reading a post before replying? I've stated that I've tried OnyX and got no results.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Have you looked for large invisible files, using 'Find'?
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Try downloading Omnidisksweeper and using it to look for large files.
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I have a 12" iBook 30gig HD and was ripping movies to an external drive when i noticed the same thing, now i am down to 100megs of HD space.
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I second OmniDiskSweeper - it is a free download from the Omni Website. Check out a few of their other great products as well while you are there.
I believe that OSX makes a copy of the file on your drive before it copies it to an external source. I never do this personally and this is from memory, so I could be completely wrong.
Also 100MB is not a good amount of HD space to have. This may cause your machine to experience "difficulties".
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