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Suddenly HD is full - where did this 13GB just appear from?
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jbleisure
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Nov 3, 2006, 06:48 AM
 
I ust got a message saying my 80GB harddrive is almost full when I looked last week I had 65used GB not it is almost 80? I haven't added anywhere near 14 GB.

I had a quick look in folders to see what was going on - the only thing that looks odd is the itunes library in the music folder says it has 27.69GB but my itunes app shows me having just about 13GB of music and podcasts combined - my ipod is up todate , confirms this and has everything on it amounting to just 13 GB's .

What should I do?
     
kick52
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Nov 3, 2006, 07:05 AM
 
its most probable one of your log files have gone crazy...

get onyx or something and delete the logs
     
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Nov 3, 2006, 07:53 AM
 
I agree that its probably a log file that's gone crazy but if you want to see what files are taking up what space download a copy of WhatSize

It will produce a listing of files sorted by space on your drive and you can then see for sure where your space went.
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jbleisure  (op)
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Nov 3, 2006, 08:22 AM
 
WhatSize
Thanks - What a usefull little app. Very interesting to see what's what. And very odd I found another old itunes library in my itunes library in amonngst all the artists files. Taking up 13Gig or so. How did that get there?
     
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Nov 3, 2006, 09:00 AM
 
Originally Posted by jbleisure View Post
How did that get there?
The solution for something like this can usually be found between the screen and the chair!

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Nov 3, 2006, 10:57 AM
 
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