Disk Space decreasing

Hi everyone,
When I leave my computer on for a while, say 3 or 4 days, I notice that my free disk space begins to decrease, even when I have not installed any programs or altered anything. Is this normal? Thanks a lot.

Yes, Mac OS X normally does dynamically manage files in memory.
If you let your machine sleep, it may not clean up logfiles, though some thing it does. You can clean those logfiles with Macjanitor:
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html
You can use the screen saver instead of energy saver to ensure you don't need to use Macjanitor and are leaving the computer on in the middle of the night.
In addition, check this article on what may be eating up space:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=122973&tstart=20

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Software Update: Java for OS X 2013-002 1.0
This update, upon booting, has caused my disk space to fill up and my system freezes up. The same happens to my coworker's computer. We both watch the remaining disk space decrease and the "spinning rainbow appears" and we must restart. What do we do?

First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so.
Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual.
Triple-click the line of text below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

Free disk space decreasing

since installing lion i have noticed a lost of free disk space on the build in harddrive even if i save as little as possible on it. i havea 1TB external hd....any ideas why??

You can also make use of inotify to see disk activities. Install inotify-tools, then run:
inotifywait -m -e modify -e create ~/
Monitor for a while, while the free disk space is descreasing.
If that didn't find anything, add --recursive to the command but it can take a while to set up. See the inotifywait(1) man page for details.
My guess is some log files too, e.g. ~/.xsession-errors.
Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-09-21 16:31:00)

Issue on space . Disk space increases and decreases automatically

Hi All,
In our QA environment for past 2 days we are facing issue on space . some unusual behaviour. Taken threaddumps at that time and found the issue
"172.30.104.53 [1373723166026] <closed>" daemon prio=3 tid=0x0000000101dca800 nid=0x135f in Object.wait() [0xfffffffd8a9ff000]
   java.lang.Thread.State: WAITING (on object monitor)
        at java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method)
        - waiting on <0xfffffffdf9743658> (a com.day.j2ee.servletengine.HttpListener$Worker)
        at java.lang.Object.wait(Object.java:485)
        at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.HttpListener$Worker.await(HttpListener.java:587)
        - locked <0xfffffffdf9743658> (a com.day.j2ee.servletengine.HttpListener$Worker)
        at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.HttpListener$Worker.run(HttpListener.java:612)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Please let me know where exact issue on thread.

If you are seeing daily increases and decrease in your disk utilization (for example it increases during the day/overnaight but in the morning the disk space has recovered what you are seeing is the impact of Tar optimization.
The Tar Persistence manager is the underlying storage mechanism for CRX. Data is stored in append only tar files. This means the when you update a node or property the new values are written to the Tar files, the indexes are updated to point to the new location, but the old data is also still left in the file. This mechanism allows for a much faster write mechanism. So the more you frequently you update existing content in your repository the larger you Tar files becomes.
There is a process called Tar File Optimization that by default is scheduled to run from 2 AM to 5 AM server time. This process identifies all the orphaned data in the Tar files and deletes, there by reducing the size of the tar files on disk.
So if you are in heavy content migration mode, or moving large amounts of content between instances you can see large swings in your disk space utilization as the Tar file balloons up during the day and then shrinks back down over night. In some cases depending on how large your repository is the 3 hours allotted by default is not sufficent to complete the optimizaiton so you may not be recovering all your disk space. During normal production operations this will normally average out over time and the 3 hour window is enough. However during periods of heavy usage, especially during QA or content migration you may find that your tar files are ever increasing in size. If that happens you need pick a period of time over say a weekend and trigger the Tar File optimization to run until complete to recover as much of your disk space as possible.
See http://helpx.adobe.com/crx/kb/TarPMOptimization.html for details on Tar File Optimization.
As someone else pointed out you may also have an issue with your data store which requires a different clean up method.
Another possible culprit is your Lucene index files. Depending on your data model and repository size you can swings in your Lucene indexes because like the Tar File it periodically cleans itself up and large amounts of content change can cause this cycle to become more pronounced.
This blog post dicusses in more deapth both Tar File Optimization and Data Store garbage collection. http://blog.aemarchitect.com/2013/06/17/importance-of-aem-maintenance-procedures-for-non-p roduction-boxes/

Empting the Trash - decreases disk space ?

I may be going crazy - but - I have noticed very recently then when I empty the Trash, my available disk space appears to decrease ? This is self defeating - as I am trying to free up disk space to improve performance. Is something happenning becasue my disk is getting very full ?
Have run Disk Utility on the disk - all reported to be ok.
Recently upgraded to Office 2004.

I have a separate discussion going regarding upgrading to Entourage 2004 - which appears to be dreadfully slow - while synchronising. I have just discovered that something is generating multiple files, all day long in the Entourage Temp folder - files named "Blck-xxxxxx" (where xxxxxx is numeric). Anywhere between 250kB and several MB - many of them. When I delete a few files elsewhere and empty the Trash I suspect that Entourage is racing ahead of me - taking up more disk space. This would explain the unexpected Trash emptying phenomena. But - any ideas on why Entourage 2004 should be generating the Blck files like mad (Entourage X didn't as far as I know - or at least must have deleted them...)?
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Disk space keeps decreasing! Help :(

Hello,
I don't understand what's going on with my MacBook. After closing Safari last night, it informed me I was getting low on drive space and so I checked it and it was literally 0Kb. Normally I have at least 8gb free so I don't know how this happened? When I began to delete things I didn't need (pictures, etc) to see if it made any difference, I literally watched the numbers keep falling right in front of me.
I restarted, and the space went up to just over 1gb.
After reading some forums, I downloaded Disk Inventory X and it showed me the invisible /private file. I read on a Mac forum that it's normal for this file to become a few gigs to 5 or 6, but mine is 36.9gb. Is this my problem? I don't understand what is going on. When I restart my computer the disk space usually goes back up, and as it stays on it decreases.
What is going on here and how do I fix it? Thanks

The LaunchDaemon is trying to invoke the CarboniteStatus application.
Follow the steps below to manually remove the Carbonite program files:
1. Restart your Computer.
2. Control click on Finder on the dock and select Go to Folder.
3. Type /Library/Application Support/ into the window that appears.
4. Move the Carbonite folder to the Trash.
5. Control-click on the Application Support folder in the header bar and click the Library folder.
6. Go to the Contextual Menu Items folder and move CarboniteCMM.bundle to the trash.
7. Go back to the /Library folder and go into the LaunchAgents folder.
8. Delete com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist and com.carbonite.launchd.ca rbonitestatus.plist.
9. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into LaunchDaemons.
10. Move com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitedaemon.plist to the trash.
11. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into PreferencePanes.
12. Move Carbonite.prefPane to the Trash.
13. Restart your computer again.
14. Empty your trash.

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I downloaded some music files from limewire and didn't like it, so I deleted the files from my shared folder where they were stored and from ITunes, then emptied the trash. Emptying the trash actually decreased the available space on the hard disk (from 26GB to 24,75GB) instead of increasing it. Does anyone know what happened and how do I find those files in order to delete them permanently and regain my original disk space? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Puni.

There's a nifty little application called WhatSize that will list everything on your HD by size. A great little application to help manage where your HD space is going.
http://www.id-design.com/kdeda
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize
http://homepage.mac.com/kdeda/iblog/index.html
Might help!
Good Luck
Bob

Ipad disk capacity/space decrease

After I update my ipad from 4.3.5 to 5.0, my disk capacity (total disk space) has decreased 1GB in total. anyone have solution to this??

Same boat. I was part of the beta, running it on AppleTV, iPad2, and five or six iPhone 4's. Bluetooth stack is the devil. AppleCare is your friend.
A read-only partition IOS was unable to over-write/delete at the time of the upgrade appears to be one on the list of things that could of happened. There have been a lot of CSS injection attacks, and the PDF exploit earlier on in the lower versions. There's some other stuff, but over all it's pretty secure. I found out about both those problems months before Apple released notice about them/started working on the patch - Somewhere around 4.2.6 - 4.2.8, Verizon thought I was a liar and I had to pay for 200 bucks worth of data charges, and I'm still fighting with iTunes over about 120 in charges. (Ever notice how when you type a password the last letter shows for a few seconds? They either had a VPN and were watching, or read it from device memory via keyhash or an insecure plaintext file saved with my password)
Anyways:
Look in your diagnostic logs under Settings, General, About, Diagnostics & Usage, and then Diagnostic Usage Data.
You might see a lot of logs listed with awdd_, or LatestCrash, or a bunch of other .plist related logs. See if you see anything in there that does not look normal. A lot of kernel panics/crashes is a good indicator of a bigger problem. You can also see in some of the logs a list of different libraries that were loaded, being used, threads, etc.
I honestly haven't come across a device yet that wasn't either A) Jailbroken or "Rooted" (without users knowledge, then they sandbox and/or use a library (libphide I believe it was) that hides/restricts everything from you. Turning on debugging in safari can show you when css attacks are attempted. Leaving java, cookies, bluetooth, and wifi off can help, but if someone wants in, well.. It's far from impossible.
B): MobileMe/iCloud replication is/was corrupt. I've had it replicating my push replications, downloading the same thing over and over then sending it back to the server again, eating up the "Other" Catagory (Documents and Data option in iCloud). Turning everything off to iCloud except find my iPad, deleting everything from the iPad by hand first (sounds silly, but you'd be surprised). then going to www.icloud.com, do a remote wipe, then do a manual recovery from iTunes and try reinstalling.
If that doesn't help to be honest you'll need to bring it to the AppleStore.
If want to take a screen shot of your log list of any of the ones showing crashes (probably will be several since it's rather long) i'll be glad to let you know if anything looks out of line. I've unfortunately got too much experience with problem children.
Good luck if I don't hear from you, my 64gb is showing 58.1 total capacity with 57.8 available on a "setup as new device" with no iCloud association as of yet.
I've replicated the problem manually on purpose on another device, and the "Read only" partition is/can cause this problem.

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Hard disk space in macbook pro 2011 keep on decreasing Bytes by Bytes . Help !!!!

I have a similar problem- I keep tunning out of disk space. A couple of weeks ago, I managed to dump Gigabytes of ITunes albums, Podcasts, Movies, Images, and dead applications, and now, without importing any images, subscribing to podcasts, and anything else, I'm told I'm out of disk space- again. It's hemhorraging diskspace somehow.
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the space of startup disk continuously decrease, even i haven't saved any thing after every utilization of my macbook air(10.6.6). this problem appears recently. initial free space of my laptop is up to 16 G, but i find it decreases every time i start the computer.now only it rests 1.6G free space now.
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*Disconnect all peripherals from your computer.* Boot from your install disc & run _*Repair Disk*_ from the utility menu. To use the Install Mac OS X disc, insert the disc, and restart your computer while holding down the C key as it starts up.
Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select *Disk Utility.*
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click *First Aid.*
Click _*Repair Disk.*_
Restart your computer when done.
*(Any errors that cannot be fixed, you will need a stronger utility - DiskWarrior or TechTool PRO)*
Repair permissions after you reach the desktop-http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751 and restart your computer.

Disk space rapidly decreasing.

Okay, sounds like there is some great ideas here, many of which I should have listened to before I acted. That being said, I want to know what my options are, if someone could help. I have the original MacBook Pro (first w/Intel processors) with a hard drive that must have been 100GB (has 92+ that I have access to). Like another user mentioned in this thread, I could barely load 500+ MB updates without getting an error message. I am buying a new laptop within the next 60 days and have access to use other things to get work done (have an iMac and iPad).
In order to free up some disk space I used Omni Disk Sweeper and located what I thought were things that I can eliminate to make some space. There was a folder called "downloads" that I thought was just all the downloads of files and such that were Word documents and other things like that. I have cleared that before, just not in a while so I thought that was okay. After doing that and a restart, nothing happens anymore, I get the apple logo on the screen and the spinning broken circle, but that stays like that for over 10 minutes. Clearly there was something I didn't need to do. In reality, the only thing I would like to do is to deauthorize this computer from my iPods, iTouch, iPhone & iPad so that I can authorize them with my iMac. I do have a Time Machine backup on an external hard drive from about 6 weeks ago, but I can't get anything to work to attempt to get stuff off of this. Again, I don't really need any of the other stuff on the machine (iTunes, documents, applications, etc.), as I have access to it elsewhere. What I really want to do is to get the stuff on my iDevices to authorize with the new iMac. I don't know how I can deauthorize without getting access to the old Mac?

I could barely load 500+ MB updates without getting an error message.
What is the error message you were getting? Too full startup drive?
There was a folder called "downloads" that I thought was just all the downloads of files and such that were Word documents and other things like that. I have cleared that before, just not in a while so I thought that was okay. After doing that and a restart, nothing happens anymore,
It is very unlikely that deleting the Download folder or files in the Folder would affect startup. Besides, that would hardly have freed up much disk space. Do you recall whether you removed anything else?
I don't really need any of the other stuff on the machine (iTunes, documents, applications, etc.), as I have access to it elsewhere.
Are you able to boot from the install disk? If you could you might consider reformatting and erasing the internal drive (post back for step by step directions), installing the OS and restoring data, if that is what you'd like to do.
I have the original MacBook Pro (first w/Intel processors) with a hard drive that must have been 100GB (has 92+ that I have access to).
Yes, it would be a 100 GB HDD as that model came with 80, 100, 120 GB (5400-rpm) or 100 GB (7200-rpm). It is not unlikely that you have a failing HDD in that computer. The average life of a laptop HDD is 3 to 5 years, and you are right in the middle of that range, so that is a real possibility.
Please post back with information requested, as well as with anything I missed in your question and any further questions.
corelius

BRAND NEW Macbook Pro with decreasing disk space

I recently bought a Macbook Pro with supposedly around 750 GB of disk space. However, when I checked it before I installed windows on it, I noticed that there was only about 430 GB available.
I downloaded less than 10 apps, and only brought over less than 50 GB worth of pictures, audio and movies from my Windows.
Can someone PLEASE explain to me how I managed to acquire almost 300 GB worth of this 'other'? An explanation besides 'things that don't fit into other categories' would be very helpful.
This is less than a week old and there's almost nothing new that I've created or worked on with this Macbook. My apps don't take up that much space, I don't have backups, Time Capsule is NOT on, and the most I've done with changing system preferences is to change my wallpaper and screensaver. So where is this all coming from? I honestly feel that I've been cheated of the 300 GB which was almost the disk space of my PC that ran Windows! And I never even used up that much since I bought my Windows!
At any rate, how do I get RID of it?

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When working on Illustrator project, it generate many file AIVMFile, 16Mo per file for almost 7Go of disk space, and decrease performance.

Illustrator is installed on a windows Laptop, Windows Seven, Illustator 16.0.3. (last update available).
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I am aware of the filesystem defragmentation, but most require offline operation and if you pre-write the disk space you need, then this is only going to be required if the file grows a lot further than you assumed.
The myths about filesystems suchas ext3 and XFS being "good" at locality and never needing de-fragmentation are unfortunately all incorrect and based upon the average user's use of text files and other relatively small files. Other filesystems on UNIX are better or worse than these two. In a server environment with a 24 hour operation, there is no down time available to perform defrag, unless it is scheduled or you use an HA solution that allows it. By far the simplest solution is to pre-write the file as fast as possible.
The effects of doing this are marked:
1) Write your file
2) defrag it;
3) Copy the key/data pairs from the file to yet another file, but this time in key sorted order (traverse the original, write the new one);
4) Defrag this new file and compress the keys etc
Then measure the performance of file traversal. Here you will reap the benefit of allowing the underlying operating system/file system to manage the reads and writes as it will almost always perform track reads/writes.
Of course if your database access is entirely random, then the benefit is reduced, but even so, the locality of allocation will reduce the disk dancing required until your data is in cache and the trickle deamon will be more efficient.
Hence, the ability to hole fill is a trivial piece of code that is filesystem agnostic and entirely backward compatibile (as if you don't make a call to do it then it will just behave as it always has). Something as simple as DB->pre_alloc(DB, sizeinMb); would do it (little point in doing this for less than megabytes).
Jim

Re: Hard Disk Space

Hi,
After dropping a couple of tables, the system does not free up hard disk space.
How can I resolved this issue ?
kindly advise.
thanks.
andrew

My server has 19 GB disk space and 49MB free space. There are about 450 tables with live data. The size of each tables varies from 1.7GB to 10MB.
1. Auto resize of datafiles will not decrease the space but increase the datafiles.
2. If resize the datafiles to 100MB will prevent the data growth
I am stuck.
What would be the recommended solution ?

The Case of the Disappearing Disk Space

Last week when I noticed I only had 5.5 gigs on my hard disk, I decided to start deleting files and programs that I didn't really need anymore. I ended up freeing up about 7 gigs! However, I have since noticed something peculiar...
As I use my computer (mostly browsing and e-mail, no other downloading), my hard disk mysteriously gets filled up. And I don't mean a few megabytes here and there, but rather more than two gigs in just a couple of days! This doesn't seem normal to me at all. Even if I do save files, they are usually just small Word documents for school. A few minutes ago, Finder said I had 10.7 gigs on my hard disk with the trash emptied. After I restarted, it said I had 13.15. Since then, I've already lost .02 gigs and the only programs I have open are Mail and Safari.
Can someone please explain to me what is happening here? Thanks!

Okay, my hard disk is at 12.71 now and a random .rtf file reads 8 kb. I'll check it later (if I am doing this right...)
You don't seem to be doing it correctly. Open TextEdit, create a new window, and note down the usage of disk space reported by WhatSize by typing it out into this window. After the amount of free space on the hard disk has decreased, run WhatSize again and note down what is reported this time. Compare the differences in the two sets of notes.
Another possibility is to choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, enter /private/var/vm/ as the folder's path, and keep an eye on the number of items in this folder as you use the computer.
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