Hard disk full

When starting up the cumputer says the hhard disk is full. I know it is not as I have just removed 100 GB of images and deleted them from the drive.

Hi Todd, one thing that is sure to raise debate on here is the subject of emptying the cache. It be something to do just to make sure space isn't being used up.
Have you considered an external hard drive? There are a number of good ones on the market, one I bought in September when I got this MBP is the Mercury Elite Pro 2 TB drive from OWC, http://www.macsales.com they are Mac specialists and have a strong rep on here.
An external drive can be partitioned for Time Machine backups and extra work space, then point your photo editing, I assume that is what you do from your name, to the external drive partition for its default work space. That should help keep the internal startup drive cleaner. You can even clone the internal to the external, or just install the Mac OS X you have on the external so you have another bootable drive should something go really wrong with the internal drive.
Right now that internal drive space seems a little suspect, keep an eye on it and see what it says. You can always go to Applications, Utilities, Activity Monitor and see what the reported space on the drive really looks lke.

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Hi,
I'm using a MacBook Pro 13" running OSX Lion, why my hard disk always showing full?
I never store any movie and music file on this mac even is my working file like AI, PSD file i store it in a extenal harddrive.
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Hard disk full error!

My Macbook Pro mid 2012 (non-retina display) keeps showing me that the startup disk is full. I have only one partition for the whole system and it is 750 GB in size. I am sure that all my files account only for 200 GB max. Suspecting a hard disk error I ran the disk utility's verify disk and repair disk but it showed no errors. Within the console windowserver and networkd were repeating on and on!!
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means the drive is failing and should be replaced....
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Hard Disk Full Error With Plenty of Available Space

Forgive me if this has been posted/asked here before I did a google search as well as tried to search the forum though maybe I had my phrasing incorrect.
When I try to open my itunes I am getting an error saying that my hard disk is full and that I must make room available by deleting files.
I'm running windows 7, my entire itunes library is kept on a Lacie 500G external hard drive with about 350G of space available for additional files so I'm not sure what the origins of this error are an, most importantly how to get it fixed.
I tried a basic reinstall with no luck and am totally clueless here.
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You may have a corrupted disk but you do not have a virus. Boot using your original system installation DVD and run Disk Utility. Repair the disk.
If you have no Administrator accounts at all, follow this procedure to create a new, temporary Administrator account from which you can fix your normal one.
Power on or restart your Mac.
At the chime or grey screen, hold ⌘ and S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode.
At the prompt, type
fsck -fy
and press Return.
This is a simple check for file system integrity and is optional. It will take a moment or two to complete. Wait for it to finish before proceeding.
Type the following exactly as written, one line at a time, each line followed by the return key. There is a single space preceding the first "slash" ( / ) character in each line:
mount -uw /
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
shutdown -h now
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When it completes, log in under that new account, change your previous account back to Admin, and log out.
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Locating downloaded TV Shows on my Hard Disk--full start up disk

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Hi. I have a Mac 10.4.11. Two years ago the original hard drive died so I took it to the computer store and replaced it with a new and larger hard drive. It's working great.
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Sorry for my late answer.
Your previous post: Disc Utility to erase free space bring nothing : the free space is free. You should verify your disc to see if there is some problem in the file system.
From your second post I understand that you can try to delete some files. Have you already emptied the basket or you do not empty it from time to time ? There could be a lot of stuff.
Also some Apps have theyr own basket or a place to keep deleted data like mail.
Check if you have duplicates and if you can delete something or move something to an externald Disc.
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Why is my hard disk full?

Hi all,
When I go to 'about this mac' - 'more info' - 'storage' - it says i have 60 odd gigs of video on the laptop.
In my itunes library I have about ten but I dont know where the other 50 are?
I use iMovie a lot but have exported my final projects and put them on an external hard drive and deleted all the raw footage from iPhoto. I now have no video in iPhoto and no projects in iMovie but still have this fifty gigs somewhere?
Does the mac store this deleted video somewhere else that I need to delete?
When I am in finder and go to the Video bit it is empty. It doesnt even show the music videos and shows I have in iTunes.
I have emptied the trash and restarted several times but still no luck.
Is there an app that can tell me where these video files are hidden? I really need that fifty gigs back...
Cheers,
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Well i dont know if the disk inventory x automatically updates or if you need to reopen it for it to reload to see if the 50gigs is still there. In my experience it is very accurate, if you wait a while i can run it on mine and see if i can more accurately and then come back here and tell you, but right now i am having troubles with migration assistant so it might take a while for me to get back to you on how to see, another option is to go to finder go to your hard drive and sort by size, click on biggest, sort by size in that folder, click on biggest and so on...

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Are these movies in your iTunes library? If so, you can move the iTunes library to an external volume in the Finder and use iTunes -> Preferences -> Advanced to change the location in iTunes. Also, note that if they are movies purchased from the iTunes Store, you only get one download... so you'll want to keep them backed up, or if something happens to them, you'll have no choice other than to repurchase them (or not have them anymore)!
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Disk Full problem, likely related to extraneous printing files - need help!

I won't go into all the details, but have noticed that over the past couple of months, I've been losing space from my internal 500gb drive at surprising clips. After hard disk full warnings recently, eliminated about 50gb by dumping to dvds. Surprisingly, then again this weekend, hard disk full warnings.
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I cant' tell where all these files are, what they are, or how they got there. I've reviewed a bunch of the articles on discussion boards, and can't find any direct solutions (at least that would appear to help with this situation). Of course I simply want to delete these apparently duplicative and meaningless files. Any help appreciated!
From a 184kb file:
*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%Auto Generated PPD from Tioga workset
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.0"
*LanguageEncoding: UTF-8
*LanguageVersion: English
*PCFileName: "AutoMake.PPD"
*Manufacturer: "EPSON"
*Product: "(EPSON SP820 Series (1,1))"
*LanguageLevel: "3"
*PSVersion: "(3011.104) 0"
*ModelName: "EPSON SP820 Series (1,1)"
*ShortNickName: "EPSON SP820"
*NickName: "EPSON SP820 Series (1,1)"
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*cupsManualCopies: True
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...then more stuff that's readable and a whole lot that isn't.
From one of the 2.2MB files
*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%Auto Generated PPD from Tioga workset
*FormatVersion: "4.3"
*FileVersion: "1.0"
*LanguageEncoding: UTF-8
*LanguageVersion: English
*PCFileName: "AutoMake.PPD"
*Manufacturer: "HP"
*Product: "(HP Photosmart C4200 series)"
*LanguageLevel: "3"
*PSVersion: "(3011.104) 0"
*ModelName: "HP Photosmart C4200 series"
*ShortNickName: "Photosmart C4200 series"
*NickName: "HP Photosmart C4200 series"
*cupsVersion: 1.1
*cupsManualCopies: True
*cupsFilter: "application/pdf 0 /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/PrintJobMgr/Contents/MacOS/PrintJobMgr"
*% Paper Handling ===================
*OpenUI *PageSize: PickOne
...then more stuff that's readable and a whole lot that isn't.

Hi Peter,
Why these temporary files are being created I don't know, but there is some malfunction in your printing system (software side).
Have you tried simply trashing those files from the Finder, or do you think there are too many of them to do it manually?
_Manual method:_
Open Finder > Go > Go to folder, and type in
/var/tmp
Then you can select them in groups and drag them to the trash.
You will be asked for your Admin password each time you move some to the trash.
Every so often empty your trash, to regain the space.
Another method is to use the Terminal Application, but some people are a bit wary of that application. Ask for directions if you are willing to try that.
Having removed those files, monitor your printing, or save as .pdf actions, and check again that folder in Finder to try and locate which action or process is responsible for creating those runaway temporary files there, because they are likely to be created again.
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Bios hard disk test faild.

My HP Pavillion G6 windows 7 (64bits) laptop while running abruptely stop. It happened fewe minutes after start. So I execute BIOS hard disk test, After test complete 49% message saying hard disk full. Please help me to find the solution because I being used this laptop only one year and two months.

Hi,
The 'Full' error message is a failure of the comprehensive ( full ) Disk Self Test and would indicate that the Hard Drive is failing and needs to be replaced.
If your notebook is still under warranty, contact HP and arrange to have the drive replaced - you can check your warranty status Here.
If you live in the US, contact HP Here.
If you are in another part of the world, start Here.
If you are out of warranty and would like a guide on replacing the Hard Drive yourself, please let me know - include the full Model No. and Product No. of g6 series notebook - see Here for a further explanation.
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