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

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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.
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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).
We tried to reinstall the application, but no effect.
Is this nomral that Illustrator create so many file, hundreds in a few hours, and takes 3 to 7 GO space disk ?
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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).
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Hi there,
Since the upgrade I've noticed that my total available disk space has decreased from about 38 GBs to 1.08 GBs. My iDisk space has reduced from about 8 GBs to 1.03GBs.
Has anyone else experienced anything similar? Anyone got any ideas how I can get my disk space back other than do a clean install to 10.5.0?
Your advice would be much appreciated.
Stephen

Download Baseline 1.0 from http://www.mildmanneredindustries.com/baseline/ . It shows the size of every folder that it has permission to enter. For complete results, enable the root user, log in as the root user, and then run the program. That approach lets you see everything.
There is a long thread about this topic in the Tips & Hints section of www.macfixitforums.com . It will show you where people often find unexpectedly large files.

"Not enough disk space" when there seems to be (+ rapid memory consumption)

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I'm a newbie to iDVD and iMovie and Forums (my last Mac was a Performa 6360--still using it for the family budget). I got my daughter a MacBook as a graduation gift. She is using it to combine movie inputs from a wedding/reception that come from digital camreas and a couple of video cameras. We went to Flip4Mac to get the necessary software/features to import .wmv files (only way we could download one of the video cameras was by going from PC to Mac--can't remember if it was a Sony or Canon).
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Basically the question is how to get more room on her disk to import and to save? She seems to only be able to Save--she can't Save Project as an option because it says she doesn't have enough disk space (she's already deleted the Trash). Help says you need to have more than 400mb of free space or it gets difficult but the indicator shows 28.8GB free space left...so there seems to be some kind of disconnect?? (Or maybe we're talking apples and oranges?)
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Hello Karstn Schluter,
This is fm's daughter who is havin ghte difficulites. at the end you tell me to try to answer 1-8 so i will try.
1- how can you tell if the avi is containing divx? or not?? do I need to just keep this in mind when importing these files
2- I have not brought in an external drive. I did try making my laptop computer a harddrive so I could import my imovie poject to my eMAC at one point, but it was not allowing me to do that either. Because I had to have it in DVD form or something
3- No I did not segment the internal drive....sorry How do you do that??? Right now I am trying to find out what is taking up all the memory and Hard Disk Drive space....i do not know how to do that either....Do you know how???
4-Yes I know flip4mac is for wmv....I guess what that question was emplying was that I also have wmv files that I am trying to import to imovieHD and that is not working either...I can get my avi to get into imovieHD, but not my wmv. files
5-THank you for the tip with the trash then another question to this one how do you delet projects that are taking up memory that are no longer in use?
6-Thank you for the tip...so then ignore the not enough disk space.....how can you alter the disk space so that you can save the project under save project as and not just save project?
7- Sorry my dad was miss informed I cannot import the wmv. files to imovie and I cannot import imovie to iDVD I only have transferred one and then all of the other files are not seen as movies so I can not import them?? Does that make since
8- When we were useing the Sony Camera originally we could not import the video to the MAC because it did not have the correct firewire cable and it would not been read onto the MAC computer. So, we have to buy the flip4mac equipment so that I would be able ot download the inoformation to the computer by a wmv.file dvd so we are having difficulites trying to import that file.
I hope these answers clear up the question a little bit more and sorry that your answers brought out more questions. Thank you very much for helping me. I was using a different program in my college class so changing to imovie and idvd has been a huge struggle for me. Thank you once again.

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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.

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Back up all data now.
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