I've noticed a few times that my hard drive will have a LOT less space left than what it said earlier. Usually I'll start throwing things away that I don't need/use and it'll help clear up space.<br><br>This morning I get to my computer and start to download a TV show and I get the warning box saying my startup disk is almost full. A check shows only 220MB empty! I know I didn't add anything yesterday...so what's filling up my hard drive? And what can I empty (is there a temp file that I can toss?) to free up space without a restart?<br><br>
#290166 - 09/27/0603:11 AMRe: What's filling up my hard drive?
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Ooh ooh. I think I know how to help. There is a freeware program I got on versiontracker called "Whereismydiskspace?" Go and look it up there. It takes a few minutes to search all your hard drive, then it gives you, in order of size, all the files on your computer. The culprit in my case was corrupted files that the peer to peer application Poisoned had downloaded but failed to erase. You will definitely find out what the culprit file(s) are if you use this.<br><br>We are what we repeatedly do. -Aristotle
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Thanks...going to look now. One thing I did notice was that I quit Photoshop this morning and gained back almost a gig.<br><br>Oh..found it. It's called WheresTheFreeSpace<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by OSXaddict on 09/27/06 06:41 AM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>
#290168 - 09/27/0604:46 AMRe: What's filling up my hard drive?
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You might also want to try Delocalizer, if you haven't already. You can selectively remove any language kits you don't need. The amount of disc space it frees up is quite significant.<br><br>
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#290170 - 09/27/0605:50 AMRe: What's filling up my hard drive?
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Yah. A forgotten stepchild. But it still works. I run it a coule of times a year just to make sure any updates or new apps installed didn't deposit stray language kits. 'Course, I have no idea how effective it is for Tiger or Mactels.<br><br>
#290171 - 09/27/0607:43 AMRe: What's filling up my hard drive?
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I used to use one called Monolingual, did the same thing. I'd forgotten in recent upgrades/reinstalls to use it though, good thing I got reminded, I am also nearing the end of my hard drive space. Of course, I keep the Japanese pack, which is by far (and I don't exagerate) the biggest of all the language packs (am I a whiner or what?).<br><br>We are what we repeatedly do. -Aristotle
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#290172 - 09/27/0608:00 AMRe: What's filling up my hard drive?
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One of the reasons I opted not to use iPhoto was the duplicates it made of the images whenever I change anything (simple orientation change duplicates the image).. If you're using iPhoto, I would check that too..<br><br><br>www.waleedsgallery.biz<br>
I don't use iPhoto.<br><br>Pete - Aperture creates a Vault to store photos in. I haven't really looked inside of it to see if it keeps the other versions in it or not.<br><br>I can understand if it slowly filled up over a period of time, but this happened overnight. I'm at work right now so I can't look.<br><br>lanovami, I did try that app you suggested but it didn't help me much. <br><br>
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