Hard Drive Space Dilemma!!! HELP!!!

I am maxing out my hard drive space. Every time I delete something, 5 minutes later it says Zero KB available and I didnt even save anything! I have an external hard drive, and put most of my work on there so all I have saved on this Macbook is a few songs and some essays. what the heck keeps eating all of my space without my permission and how can I get rid of it? Thank you Gurus!!!

The following info might help you free some space.
The XLab: Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk
The XLab: Uninstalling Applications
Use either one of these too see what is taking up the most space and what all is on your system drive.
WhatSize
Disk Inventory X

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Do not install any software from WD. Prep the drive as follows:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

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Hey there
I'm fairly new to macs but recently purchased a 2.4 macbook from the apple website. Upon arrival i decided to setup which went great.
Then the problems started.
I tried installing Windows XP using the Boot Camp Assistant and all was going well, until it restarted giving me the dreaded disk error (i used a service pack 1 CD the first time, only hearing about the problems when it was too late!).
I restarted the mac holding the C key down and attempted to delete the windows partition which had been created. Afterwards i seemed to be able to log back into leopard without any problems but i noticed that the hard drive had shrunk.
I reattempted a Windows installation using the service pack 2 disk this time and again this failed.
After calling apple they got me to erase all data on the 'Mac HD' and then do a fresh install of Leopard.
I've just finished this, and my 160gb hard drive 'Hitachi HTS542516K9SA00' is now claiming it has a capacity of 149.05. I believe this is fairly normal right?
However.. below that in the 'about my mac' listing is 'Mac HD' with a capacity of 137.88, and 120.17 available after the fresh leopard install.
From what i've read this isn't normal at all, and it's also been suggested that there are bits and pieces of the Windows partitions still left on my Macbook.
As i'm new to all this, i have no idea what to do about it. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated as i spent alot of money on this machine in the hope that i would be problem free!

can you go to Disk Utility (Applications --> Utilities --> Disk Utility), select your hard drive on the left (should say the size and make/model) and click on the "Partition" tab? then tell me what you see. i am running bootcamp and see two separate partitions, which i've named windows and mac.

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Hello,
I am new to computers in general and Mac's in particular and need some suggestions, this is my first computer. The free space on my HD is running out and i was wondering if i could buy a new larger internal HD from apple and have it replaced? or if it would be better and easier to buy an external HD, like one from lacie or maxtor, and use that supplementaly? and what be would be the pros and cons of each.
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thanks
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Hello Luders (thanx for the fast response),
well the situation is the free space on there rignt now is enough for music, photos, documents et. al., but i am interested in putting some of my DVD collection on my HD for easy access as well as not worrying about the discs getting scratched, and maybe using Delicious Library, which i just read about a few days ago, to manage them, and i have two of my movies on their now but they take alot of space 14 GB's. My DVD collection is not that big only about 15 movies.
my computer seems to be slower, and i was wondering if this had anything to do with the diminishing capacity of my HD
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I HAVE BEEN USING MID 2011 MACBOOK AIR 11 INCH.I AM LOSING MY HARD DRIVE SPACE WITHOUT ANY REASON.FIRST IT WAS 84.1 GB NOW IT IS 83.9 AND SLOWLY LOSING SPACE.WHY IS THAT?? PLS PLS HELP

I have macbook air mid 2011 .. Now i am losing my hard drive space without any apparent reason..I am not downloading anything not i am adding anything still that i am losing my hard drive space for no apparent reason..pls pls help..

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Can I just delete the Boot Camp partition and start again
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Hi i am using OS 10.8.5 i hv a problem moving items to trash when i delete any thing it deletes from specific folder but dosnt appear in trash n my hard drive space is not getting free kindly help me

hi i am using OS 10.8.5 i have a problem moving items to trash when i move a specific thing to trash it deletes from that folder but does not appear in trash and my hard drive space is not getting free i am a new user to mac kindly help me out

When you have kernel panics, the pertinent information is in the panic report.
These instructions must be carried out as an administrator. If you have only one user account, you are the administrator.
Launch the Console 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 and start typing the name.
In the Console window, select
DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION ▹ System Diagnostic Reports
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View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
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If you don't see any reports listed, but you know there was a panic, you may have chosen Diagnostic and Usage Messages from the log list. Choose DIAGNOSTIC AND USAGE INFORMATION instead.
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Please don’t post other kinds of diagnostic report.
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Hello, I'm a relatively new mac user and I am extremely frustrated right now... My hard-drive space is disappearing at an alarming rate. This problem has already crashed my computer once. I paid $128 to have it fixed by an apple tech. (So I thought) I paid almost $2000 for this thing and it may as well have been a ******* paper weight the majority of the time i've had it! ....My neighbor ran a "utility tool" of some sort called "i defrag", and it shows a file with 269 GB of stuff on it and fragmented like 93,000 times, called..... File name: iNode4949348 Path: /HFS+ Private Data/ ......This must be the problem file. However, this file cannot be found anywhere that I can see in the Finder. Please help... I need my computer and if it crashes again, I'm screwed, as I don't have the funds to repair it. I only have like 27GB left and at the rate it's going that means I will crash tonight or in the morning! PLEASE HELP!!!

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Where did my disk space go?
http://www.macfixitforums.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=Forum38&Number=770243
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Amazing Disappearing Drive Space
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html
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Running out of hard drive space---can I use my external hard drive-??

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My laptop computer has the iTunes that I use for syncing my iPod. It has over 25gb of songs in it, but my problem is that it has completely run out of hard drive space, and I don't think I can delete anything else.
I have a 250 GB external hard drive that also has all my songs backed up on it, that has hard drive space left on it.
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Thanks for any help that anyone can offer, I'm desperate ~!
I'm not sure if this can be done, but I'd hate to think that I cannot put new music onto my iPod.
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Hello melbernai,
I think your best move would be to the move the entire iTunes library including of all of its file to your external hard drive and running your iTunes from there. You can even have it so that all newly imported music is saved to the external drive as well.
For more help on how to do this, I would check out this article on how to move and run your iTunes library from an external hard drive.
http://lifehacker.com/238296/ultranewb--how-to-move-your-itunes-library-to-an-ex ternal-drive
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HT201250 I had files stored on a hard drive that were not on my Mac. I used the hard drive for my first Time Machine back up, but it was not enough hard drive space to finish. Now those stored files are gone. Is there any way I can recover them?

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