Hard Disc Space DISAPPEARING

Using 10.5.6 on a Powerbook G4. 100 GB drive, What Size reports 27.2 gigs used. I have 248 mb remaining. The system is very sluggish.
I have run DU, then Onyx to delete all caches. No improvement.

PowerbookServer-2:~ stephenpower$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s5 102Gi 101Gi 205Mi 100% /
devfs 106Ki 106Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
fdesc 1.0Ki 1.0Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net
map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home
map -fstab 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /Network/Servers
/dev/disk0s3 10Gi 7.0Gi 3.0Gi 71% /Volumes/Mac OS X Server Installation Disc
PowerbookServer-2:~ stephenpower$ ls -Al /
total 41309
-rw-rw-r--@ 1 stephenpower admin 12292 Dec 21 13:53 .DS_Store
drwx------ 3 root admin 102 Dec 13 13:10 .Spotlight-V100
d-wx-wx-wt 2 root staff 68 Dec 13 12:15 .Trashes
drwx------ 4 root admin 136 Dec 21 14:09 .fseventsd
-rw------- 1 root wheel 65536 Dec 13 12:45 .hotfiles.btree
drwxr-xr-x@ 2 root wheel 68 Sep 24 2007 .vol
drwxrwxr-x+ 46 root admin 1564 Dec 21 13:12 Applications
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 1024 Dec 13 16:55 Desktop DB
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root admin 2 Dec 13 16:55 Desktop DF
drwxrwxr-x 3 root admin 102 Dec 14 19:21 Developer
drwxrwxrwx 5 stephenpower admin 170 Dec 13 21:19 Groups
drwxrwxr-t+ 57 root admin 1938 Dec 17 09:08 Library
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 root wheel 102 Dec 21 14:09 Network
drwxrwxr-x 11 stephenpower admin 374 Dec 15 07:54 Shared Items
drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 136 Dec 13 12:20 System
drwxr-xr-x 5 root admin 170 Dec 13 13:10 Users
drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin 136 Dec 21 14:09 Volumes
drwxr-xr-x@ 40 root wheel 1360 Dec 13 12:16 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 stephenpower admin 17 Dec 14 16:00 cookies.dat
drwxrwxr-t@ 2 root admin 68 Apr 23 2008 cores
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 21 14:09 dev
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root admin 11 Dec 13 12:16 etc -> private/etc
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Dec 21 14:09 home
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 10293308 Jun 9 2008 mach_kernel
-rw-r--r--@ 1 root wheel 10742313 Jun 9 2008 mach_kernel.ctfsys
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 1 Dec 21 14:09 net
drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 Dec 13 12:22 private
drwxr-xr-x@ 67 root wheel 2278 Dec 13 12:28 sbin
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root admin 11 Dec 13 12:16 tmp -> private/tmp
drwxr-xr-x@ 11 root wheel 374 Dec 13 15:13 usr
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root admin 11 Dec 13 12:16 var -> private/var

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Available Hard Disc Space

I have an iMac4 which I bought a year ago with 500 Gb of hard disc space. I had an iBook with 40 Gb of space and when I got my new machine I transferred all the info across straight away. The strange thing was that I then appeared to have used about 250 Gb of the space on my new HD. This has puzzled me for tha past year! How does 40 Gb expand on transfer to take up nearly 250 Gb of space??
I have just looked through some past posts and downloaded 'WhatSize' to see if that can shed any light on the problem. Unfortunately it hasn't! It is telling me that I have a capacity of 465 Gb, I've used 281 Gb and have 183 Gb available. There is nothing strange or startling on my Mac. I have MS Office 2001, some itunes and some photos. Nothing outrageous as we just use the Mac for normal, low level family stuff.
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6.93 Gb Applications
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I would be grateful if anyone could shed some light on this for me.

Hi Alun,
Apple stopped selling iMac G5s in Jan 2006 so it seems odd that it's only a year old. I suspect that you have an Intel iMac. Could you check the processor in  > About this Mac.... Thanks.
465Gb is the correct figure for your hard disk. Data is stored in a binary fashion but hard disks are sold in decimal notation. The conversion calculation for Gigabytes is
(500 x 10003) / 10243 = 465.66Gb.
regards
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I'm trying to make a Blu-ray image on my computer and recieving an error that states:
Blu-ray Error
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My longer notes on this error:
The most common workaround for this is to build to a folder and burn with ImgBurn (for PC) or toast (for Mac).
Searches show that there has not been success in many situations. I do not believe that it is one problem.
I have generally believed that the error refers to temporary storage on the hard drive. And users underestimate the amount of temporary hard disk drive space used. For bluray it is about twice the disk or more.
Some users experience this error when they are creating dual layer BD disks, and a layer is more than 25G. Each video/layer must fit on one side.
And some users successfully burn their disk by re-encoding to a lower bitrate (a 25G BD disk does not hold 25G). Encore uses padding to predict the size on disk (e.g. add 10% to the amount of space it predicts that build will use), and it can be wrong.
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Lion Disc Space Disappearing - Not sure why.

I'm sorry, I know there /must/ be a thread on this already, but for the life of me the search on this forum never seems to reveal anything until I've posted a question (if at all). So I do apologize to those of you who dedicatedly sift through each of these posts.
Since upgrading to Lion, disc space has started vanishing. I have not made any major downloads and do not have much to begin with. I already store my iPhotos & iTunes on an external (well, the bulk of them - I've not found a means of consolidating two librairies yet, would be interested if anyone knows how I can do that, short of manual pain).
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Best,
Rax

Thank you for the response. [can I parenthetically add that I hate that this forum doesn't keep you logged in & that when you /do/ re-log in, it doesn't take you to the page you were viewing? Just have to get that off my chest - one of those days, you know].
Yes, only 50% capacity prior to installing Lion, but that was months ago (indeed, it was less that that, I can only account for roughly 50% of the space used).
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Hi,
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Is there a program i can use to visually represent where all my disc space has gone to? I remember when i used a pc there was a program that showed hard disc usage as a pie chart.
thanks very much

+How can this be?+
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My hard disc icon has disappeared from the desktop and the sidebar of Finder windows. The only places I can see it are in the Disc Utility and occasionally when saving from some apps, and then it's often greyed out so I can't access it. I've made sure that the Finder prefs are set to show hard discs, and my external disc does show - it's only the internal drive. CD and DVD icons all show.
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Preserving Hard Disc Space

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Just got my new alum macbook and have a question before importing my photos from my QNAP NAS.
If I import my library of photo's (4-years worth), does iPhoto read it from my NAS or does it copy them to my macbook? I don't want thousands of photo's eating into my new macbook's hard drive.
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I am NEW to Apple so any imformation is GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
By default iPhoto will copy all the files into it’s Library.
You can set it not to do this - but I strongly urge you not to change the default setting, especially as you are new to both iPhoto and the Mac.
But here goes:
Simply go to iPhoto Menu -> Preferences -> Advanced and uncheck 'Copy Files to the iPhoto Library on Import'.
Now iPhoto will not copy the files, but rather simply reference them on your HD. To do this it will create an alias in the Originals Folder that points to your file. It will still create a thumbnail and, if you modify the pics, a Modified version within the iPhoto Library Folder.
However, you need to be aware of a number of potential pitfalls using this system.
1. Import and deleting pics are more complex procedures
2. You cannot move or rename the files on your system or iPhoto will lose track of them on systems prior to 10.5 and iPhoto 08. Even with the later versions issues can still arise if you move the referenced files to new volumes or between volumes.
3. Most importantly, migrating to a new disk or computer can be much more complex.
Always allowing for personal preference, I've yet to see a good reason to run iPhoto in referenced mode unless you're using two photo organisers.
If disk space is an issue, you can run an entire iPhoto Library from an external disk:
1. Quit iPhoto
2. Copy the iPhoto Library as an entity from your Pictures Folder to the External Disk.
3. Hold down the option (or alt) key while launching iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Choose Library' and navigate to the new location. From that point on this will be the default location of your library.
4. Test the library and when you're sure all is well, trash the one on your internal HD to free up space.
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Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!
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This is also true for emailing with Web-based services. If you're using Gmail you can use iPhoto2GMail
If you use Apple's Mail, Entourage, AOL or Eudora you can email from within iPhoto.
If you use a Cocoa-based Browser such as Safari, you can drag the pics from the iPhoto Window to the Attach window in the browser.
Or, if you want to access the files with iPhoto not running, then create a Media Browser using Automator (takes about 10 seconds) or use THIS
Other options include:
1. *Drag and Drop*: Drag a photo from the iPhoto Window to the desktop, there iPhoto will make a full-sized copy of the pic.
2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
Your choice, obviously, but best to be aware of all the ramifications. By all means post back if you require more info.
Note: If you run iPhoto on an External Disk it must be
a: formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and
b: must have a wired connection.
If the disk is not formatted appropriately you will have issues saving edits and sharing the photos, and the Library database file is prone to damage on wireless connections.
Regards
TD

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