Intel X.3.9 Writing large files to drive..need fix

[Jack D.]

A friend with a 24" Intel iMac 10.3.9 250gb drive has the disappearing space / large file problem. When she goes to save something the Disk Full error pops up. When I "Get Info" on the drive it shows 130gb free. I know this has been talked about here but the search didn't seem to find anything. Other sources say it's a log file gone wild and I should use something like DiskInventoryX to find the file(s) and delete it.

I need to solve the problem not just delete the file. Is this something where I should archive and install a new OS or is there a simpler fix? TIA!

[Jimmypoo]

Run Onyx or Cocktail first to "clean up" the caches of the system and then check back.

[Forrest]

OSX 10.3.x only runs on PPC Macs. The first released version of OSX for Intel was 10.4

[Jack D.]

Forrest wrote:
OSX 10.3.x only runs on PPC Macs. The first released version of OSX for Intel was 10.4

Yeah, got that wrong, 10.4.11. So I ran Cocktail and same problem but I'm pretty sure it's the account. Old acct needed constant authorizing to trash or move something. Desktop cannot be modified etc. I made a new Admin acct and it works fine so I'm swapping all her stuff to the new acct.

Is there an easy way to move everything to the new acct?