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martinserrano - Jul 10, 2006 - 9:18 am

i have a powerbook g4 with mac osx 10.4.6, and im losing memory without installing, or downloading any more programs or files...
just yesterday i had 5 gb of memory left, and this morning i had 3.3 gb... i dont know whats happening... can someone help me???

Thunderthud - Jul 10, 2006 - 9:34 am

A lot of stuff accumulates in logs and such because of OS X's UNIX underpinnings.

Try a tool like MacPilot

www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20937

to look in the various logs to see if there's a hint about trouble that an app may be having.

If left on long enough OS X will run tasks, usually in the wee hours, to clean up after itself but sometimes, especially laptops, the machines are not running when these tasks are scheduled to run and, sometimes, the logs are full of messages that some app is having continuing problems. If you don't like the idea of leaving the machine on overnight follow this link

www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/10491

and download MacJanitor. Have it run the cleanup tasks periodically.

Also, try WhatSize

www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21149

to see where your drive space has gone.

martinserrano - Jul 10, 2006 - 10:07 am

thanks,