My hard drive is clogging up automatically. The personal folder is now 921 GB which is much larger than the sum of the subfolders. I cannot see what's causing this or prevent this from happening. Anyone?

My hard drive on my Imac keeps clogging up automatically. The personal folder is now 925 GB which is much larger than the sum of the underlying subfolders. I cannot see what"s causing this. Anyone?

You may try one of these utilities to spotlight exactly where the hard drive usage has gone crazy.
      DaisyDisk- http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/daisydisk/id411643860?mt=12
     DiskFalcon   - http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disk-falcon/id421781596?mt=12
Items to check manually:
     Duplicate iTune libraries, or music files that are in itune folder AND loose on the harddrive
     Download folder that hasn't been emptied
     Backup software location

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I realized that my mac didn't have charge when milk spilled on it so I tried to charge it and BOOM IT OPENED. They keyboards were sticky and it takes a moment before my computer reacts to the trackpad but it works! Even all the keys works! But it doesn't charge.
After lunch, it was workingp perfectly and my batteries were at 30% charge! I was really happy!
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However at July 19
There was no electricity for four days (A typhoon came in the Philippines) and my battery is about 7% so I went to the public market to get it charge while I wait for electricity. I charged it for about 3 hours and sideways because it was inside my backpack while it charged so noone will notice it. When I got home and opened my laptop, it shut off randomly after my desktop appeared after start up. So I was sad.
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My computer was normal in the morning then in the afternoon it shut off again after I waked it up from sleep. Tried option-shift for about 3-5 times before it worked with varying intervals from 5-20 minutes each
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Today Thursday morning July 24
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tryshdanielle wrote:
So what I'm asking here is what do I do to make sure this doesn't occur anymore.
Get a new computer. Consider switching to regular milk, or even a light fruit juice.

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Short Version:
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