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Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - IronMac - 01-12-2014
Hi all,
As some of you know, I have an MBP with an SSD as a boot drive. Running 10.6.8. I've noticed that the free space on it is disappearing and I don't know why. In the course of a week, I can lose over 10 gigs. If I shut down and restart, the free space comes back.
Obviously, this has never happened before and so am wondering if a setting has been changed somewhere.
Any ideas? Thanks.
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - tenders - 01-12-2014
Run the app "Grand Perspective" - it just takes a few seconds and shows how much space is allocated to each file on the drive. Especially given the prevalence of smaller SSD drives, I think it should be part of Disk Utility that's bundled with the MacOS.
You probably have a swap file taking up space,but are feeling the pinch because of other large files that don't need to be there. For me it was excess iMovie files from a long-ago project.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net
(Note misspelling of app name in URL - perhaps a language inconsistency.)
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - sekker - 01-12-2014
If you've added RAM, the OS will save a copy of the RAM in the boot drive partition in case you run out of power, etc. I experienced this when I went to 12GB from 4 - essentially lost 8GB on my SSD.
Another boot drive space hog is photostream, but I don't think you have that turned on if you are using SL. But if you have the latest iPhoto, I'd check. That's a terribly poorly written program in my experience, comes with my issues than ever.
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - deckeda - 01-12-2014
sekker wrote:
... Another boot drive space hog is photostream, but I don't think you have that turned on if you are using SL. But if you have the latest iPhoto, I'd check. That's a terribly poorly written program in my experience, comes with my issues than ever.
I looked inside the library package file but didn't notice them. I've created a shared photostream but most of the images weren't added by me. If I right-click on one in iPhoto there's an "Import" feature; apart from low res previews I don't think they are stored on my Mac.
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - space-time - 01-12-2014
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Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - IronMac - 01-12-2014
tenders, thanks...have Grand Perspective...love it!!!! Will try it later to see what is going on there.
sekker, nope, no new ram...still at 8 gigs...and no photostream. iPhoto...maybe but I have added no new photos.
space-time, that made me LOL.
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - RAMd®d - 01-13-2014
I love GrandPerspective.
It also allows you to delete that block of "RAM memory", though it will come back on a reboot.
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - IronMac - 01-13-2014
Not sure what I am supposed to look for...certainly I did not see "Ram memory".
I did find a massive TechTool Pro folder that was weirdly named from a year ago. It was "SWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" and so on. A whole gig was taken up with it!
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - space-time - 01-13-2014
RAMd®d wrote:
I love GrandPerspective.
It also allows you to delete that block of "RAM memory", though it will come back on a reboot.
To remove the sleep image file: sudo rm -rf /var/vm/sleepimage
To disable safe sleep mode: sudo pmset hibernatemode 0
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/08/22/why-hibernate-or-safe-sleep-mode-is-no-longer-necessary-in-os/
Re: Why is Boot Drive Filling Up? - IronMac - 01-13-2014
Thanks space-time!!!