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Achates - Jun 25, 2006 - 8:50 pm
Hi,
I came back from being out and there was a system message that said I had zero space left on my internal PowerBook hard drive... I'm genuinely puzzled by this because I had at least 12 gigs left on it (it's an 80 gig drive).
What's more confusing is that after a shutdown and restart, minor cleanup of random shareware and such, and verifying permissions I have 4.85 gigs free, which is not nearly enough to run at full speed. At least 8 gigs are unaccounted for.
So then I booted into Drive Genius and ran some scanning and verification and nothing seemed to be amiss with the hardware.
Do you have any idea as to what's wrong and what I can do? I've run some basic maintenance with Onyx and nothing has changed.
Does something go horribly wrong when you only have a certain percentage of free space on a drive?
I'd appreciate your help...this thing feels like it's teetering on the edge of meltdown because it's running so slow.
Thank you.
I came back from being out and there was a system message that said I had zero space left on my internal PowerBook hard drive... I'm genuinely puzzled by this because I had at least 12 gigs left on it (it's an 80 gig drive).
What's more confusing is that after a shutdown and restart, minor cleanup of random shareware and such, and verifying permissions I have 4.85 gigs free, which is not nearly enough to run at full speed. At least 8 gigs are unaccounted for.
So then I booted into Drive Genius and ran some scanning and verification and nothing seemed to be amiss with the hardware.
Do you have any idea as to what's wrong and what I can do? I've run some basic maintenance with Onyx and nothing has changed.
Does something go horribly wrong when you only have a certain percentage of free space on a drive?
I'd appreciate your help...this thing feels like it's teetering on the edge of meltdown because it's running so slow.
Thank you.
Thunderthud - Jun 26, 2006 - 12:01 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.
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.
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