[X4U] Hard drive space

[Randy B. Singer]

On Jan 24, 2008, at 6:33 AM, Robert wrote:

> Over the past couple of weeks I have been running out of hard drive  
> space. If I restart I have 39 gb. With out running any apps My hard  
> drive space starts to go down.


In some instances, users have experienced a situation that some  
people refer to as an "Out-Of-Control Cache File." This is where you  
suddenly find that your hard drive has filled up and you don't know  
what it has filled up with. This is the result of a cache or log file  
that has gotten out of hand.

The first thing to try is simply restarting your Mac.  If that  
doesn't help...

WhatSize (free)
http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/

will show you which files have balooned and are now taking up all of  
your disk space.

Running Cache Out X, and then MacJanitor for good measure, should  
remedy the problem.

Cache Out X  (Free)
http://jimmitchell.org/projects/cox/

MacJanitor (Free)
http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html



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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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