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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RFC2662 wrote:
Does anyone know at what point OSX gets starts getting slow regarding free disk space?
I really want to replace the drive but I have Apple Care and I believe this would void the warranty.
There is no magic number here, RFC2662. It depends a great deal on what you use your computer for.
You are certainly down in the sort of area where problems can set in though.
There are two reasons why drives get slow when they get full. Slower sector access speeds and increasing levels of free space (and ultimately file) fragmentation.
The inner sectors , which generally fill up last on your HD, are, of course, located on parts of the platter(s) with a smaller circumference than the outer sectors. The rotational speed of the standard drives used in modern computers operate at a fixed rotational rate when reading and writing data. Accordingly in any single rotation the heads will traverse a much smaller distance when operating on the inner sectors than on the outer, and the speed at which data can be read and written is accordingly also somewhat slower. The effect is not huge, and is mitigated to some extent by the "hot spot" strategies and the like used by OSX to keep relevant system related and other frequently accessed files in the faster , outer, bands, but it will still slow your drive.
The second (more serious) cause of slow downs (and potentially other problems) as drives get full is free space fragmentation.
Most users, as long as they leave plenty of free space available , and don't work regularly in situations where very large files are written and rewritten, are unlikely to notice the effects of fragmentation on either their files or on the drives free space much.
As the drive fills the situations becomes progressively more significant, however.
Some people will tell you that "OSX defrags your files anyway". This is only partly true. It defrags files that are less than 20 MB in size. It doesn't defrag larger files and it doesn't defrag the free space on the drive. In fact the method it uses to defrag the smaller files actually increases the extent of free space fragmentation. Eventually, in fact, once the largest free space fragments are down to less than 20 MB (not uncommon on a drive that has , say only 10% free space left) it begins to give up trying to defrag altogether.
Again, this doesn't matter for most users when the drive is half empty or better, but it does when it gets fullish, and it does especially when it gets fullish if you are regularly dealing with large files , like video or serious audio and photographic stuff.
If you look through this discussion board you will see quite a few complaints from people who find that their drive gets "slow". Often you will see that say that "still have 10 or 20 gigs free" or the like.
On modern large drives by this stage they are usually in fact down to the point where the internal defragmentation routines can no longer operate , where their drives are working like navvies to keep up with finding space for any larger files, together with room for "scratch files", virtual memory, directories etc etc etc. Such users are operating in a zone where they put a lot more stress on their drives as a result, often start complaining of increased "heat", etc etc. Most obviously, though, the computer slows down to a speed not much better than that of molasses. Eventually the directories and other related files may collapse altogether and they find themselves with a next to unrecoverable disk problems.
By this time, of course, defragging itself has already become just about impossible. The amount of work required to shift the data into contiguous blocks is immense, puts additional stress on the drive, takes forever, etc etc. The extent of fragmentation of free space at this stage can be simply staggering, and any large files you subsequently write are likely to be divided into many , many tens of thousands of fragments scattered across the drive. Not only this, but things like the "extents files", which record where all the bits are located, will begin to grow astronomically as a result, as the computer struggles to keep track of where everything is l, putting even more pressure on your already stressed drive, and increasing the risk of major failures.
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In the "first phase" (with your drive less than half full), fragmentation doesn't matter much at all - probably not enough to even make it worth doing.
In the "second phase" (between , say 50% free space and 20% free space remaining) it becomes progressively more of an issue, but , depending on the use you put your computer to you won't see much difference at the higher levels of free space unless you are serious video buff who needs to keep their drives operating as efficiently and fast as possible - chances are they will be using fast external drives over FW800 or eSata to compliment their internal HD anyway.
At the lower end though (when boot drives get down around the 20% mark on , say, a 250 or 500 Gig drive) I certainly begin to see an impact on performance and stability when working with large image files, mapping software, and the like, especially those which rely on the use of their own "scratch" files, and especially in situations where I am using multiple applications simultaneously, if I haven't defragmented the drive for a while.
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Between 20% and 10% free space is a bit of a "doubtful region". Most people will still be able to defrag successfully in this sort of area, though the time taken and the risks associated increase as the free space declines. My own advice to people in this sort of area is that they start choosing their new , bigger HD, because they obviously are going to need one very soon, and try to "clear the decks" so that they maintain at least that 20% free buffer until they do. Defragging very regularly (perhaps once a fortnight) will actually benefit them very substantially usually, but maybe doing so will lull them into a false sense of security and keep them from seriously recognising that they need to be moving to a bigger HD!
Once they are down to that last ten per cent of free space, though, they are treading on glass. Free space fragmentation at least will already be a serious issue on their computers but if they try to defrag with a utility without first making substantially more space available then they may find it runs into problems or is so slow that they give up half way through and do the damage themselves, especially if they are using one of the less "forgiving" utilities!
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So it comes down to this:
1) If you really need maximum speed from your drive, for heavy duty video editing and the like, then you are probably best off keeping the internal drive for system and application use, keeping it as empty as possible, and using fast FW800 or eSata drives for your work files.
2) For the vast majority of users, though, they will notice little or no difference until free space on the drive falls to 20% or less of total capacity. (There will be a reduction in performance, but it won't really matter , or be obvious, to most users). Once the drive falls below about 30% they will benefit a bit from occasional defragmentation, either using the "clone, wipe and clone back" approach, or using a good utility like iDefrag.
3) Once drives get down below 20% users should be defragmenting more regularly, doing their best to shift unnecessary stuff off the drive, and thinking about upgrading their drives to a larger one. They will need to be cautious about any activity which involves the use of very large files and are likely to see substantial performance degradation when they do so.
4) once they get below 10% it is definitely time for a bigger drive if they can't at least get back above the 20% free level. They will also need to defragment after freeing up the necessary space.
In your case your symptoms are typical of an overfull, badly fragmented, drive. You need to free up quite a bit more room, defragment the drive, and organise getting a bigger one installed.
Cheers
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Does iMovie have a cache or somewhere that it keeps stray files? I've noticed that sometimes when I empty the trash, I don't get my disk space back. I'm not quite sure why. I also read somewhere on these boards that iDVD uses double the size of your project in order to burn your movie. Do you get that space back or is there something I need to clean off from that. I bought an 80G MacBook 2 weeks ago and it appears that even that isn't big enough for me - sheesh.
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Hello Stazya,
you have encountered iMovies non-destructive editing feature. A clip is only eliminated completely from the trash when no part of it is in your timeline any longer.
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