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by: djwhitebread
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Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 30, 2007 4:57 PM
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I had 16GB free before Leopard, did an upgrade install, so it took it's 5GB, and I was down to 11GB. Since then I've been leaking out disk space ever since. It got down to 1.6GB yesterday. I'm running File Vault so I let it compress space, and got back to 8.5GB this morning (note that's still 2.5GB that has disappeared). I've been watching it all day and it's gone from 8.5GB down to 7.06GB. I've download maybe a couple hundred megs of stuff.
What's going on? anyone else have this problem?
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 30, 2007 5:44 PM
in response to: Allison Sheridan
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Allison,
I have been grappling with my 10.5 install since Friday. This is one of the problems I encountered. Talking to an individual at AppleCare they mentioned that it is related to the 'directory'. In my experience every time I ran something such as 'Repair Disk Permissions' to see if my latest action had corrected the SUID warning that some are talking about I found another large section of HD had been taken up. I'm not technically proficient so I can't tell you the exact details. I do however suggest you contact apple or the store you bought the computer from for assistance.
I think you are likely to be told to perform an 'erase and install' installation. But then again you should check first. But yes you are not the only individual to have experienced the problem. Not that you will take a great deal of comfort from that I'm sure.
Paul.
MacBook
Mac OS X (10.5)
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 31, 2007 5:50 PM
in response to: Allison Sheridan
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I've noticed the same thing. I dropped 25 GB after installation and think the problem is with filesync. In library under FileSync the folder keeps growing. I have deleted it once and now that it is at 11 GB I need to do so again.
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 31, 2007 5:55 PM
in response to: Allison Sheridan
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I had a HUGE filesync folder. Ate up about 89 gig after intalling Leopard. Check it out under Library.
imac
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 31, 2007 8:15 PM
in response to: steevo924
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thanks to all - but I don't appear to HAVE filesync file or folder! I looked in the top level library and the user library, then I searched the entire drive. nuthin.
I don't have Time Machine on - I'm assuming maybe the growing filesync is caused by that?
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 31, 2007 8:16 PM
in response to: arborea
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Actually Paul this does help - it helps just to know you're not alone!
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 31, 2007 8:16 PM
in response to: arborea
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Actually Paul this does help - it helps just to know you're not alone!
and I'm pretty sure I DO have an erase an install coming up this weekend...
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Oct 31, 2007 10:27 PM
in response to: Allison Sheridan
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I had a problem where one of my kids empty iDisk consumed 40GB in Leopard! I turned off local iDisk sync for him and then back on, and that fixed it. Freed up 40GB! It seems that local iDisk sync is extremely buggy in Leopard.
MacBook, iMac, iPhone, iPod nano
Mac OS X (10.5)
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Nov 1, 2007 5:23 PM
in response to: Allison Sheridan
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After almost a week of running Leopard, this disappearance of disk space happened to me today, in only a couple of hours. I think it may be related to Time Machine. Perhaps something about saving changes to copy modified files. My understanding of Spotlight hints that there could be enormous amounts of data generated. I went from about 100GB free after an ERASE/INSTALL to 600MB in only one day! This is unacceptable Apple!
I have looked for filesync in root and user libraries, but there is no disk space recorded. I have also used WhatSize, DiskInventory, and JDiskReport, but none of them report any large files. All the biggest directories have 3-6 GBs, and there are only a handful, much less than 20 GBs.
I am going to run Leopard Cache Cleaner or possible a new version of Cache Out X, if I can find it. I'll let you know what I find.
All the best,
fellow
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Nov 1, 2007 5:33 PM
in response to: Allison Sheridan
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Have you rebooted? After running fro several days, certain page and system files swell.
MBP C2D Glossy - 160/2 GB - 1.5 TB - Dell 2407 - Samsung 4661F - Logitech Z5500
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
XP Pro/Boot Camp/Parallels - iLife/iWorks 08 - Photoshop CS3 - Nano Video 8GB
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Nov 1, 2007 5:54 PM
in response to: arborea
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Allison,
As a follow-up to my earlier post to you.
I performed an 'erase and install' and the problem of vanishing space on my HD has gone.
I have run spotlight and restarted several times and the space on the HD has not reduced other than can be explained by my work.
Perhaps this also helps?
There is also something right about the 'erase and install' aside from the fact it solves (or so far) the issue. For other issues such as the "warning SUID file.." it has not however. I am using Leopard and enjoying it. I'm just being cautious and backing up to my external HD. If like me you do not have too many third party applications you can easily perform an 'erase and install' once you have backed up. I was able to import my e-mails and everything afterward. I used it as an opportunity to remove things on my HD that I didn't need and found I could gain more space on the HD as a result. One warning though it takes a while to re-install all the applications and so on. I had no idea I had collected so many external items i.e. software downloads, periphery apps, and so on.
Get advice before doing this though. I had someone at AppleCare explain before hand and I used my original 10.4 disks to erase the disk and reinstall Tiger. After setting everything up again I installed 10.5 from the Leopard installation disk. I installed it as a simple 'upgrade'. I suppose this may not be the same as an 'erase and install'. Again, I hope this helps.
Paul.
P.S. Be warned it takes hours (and hours) to complete this whole process.
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Nov 1, 2007 6:24 PM
in response to: fellow
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I have a handle on it. Spotlight is eating the space. See this terminal output:
Last login: Thu Nov 1 18:09:58 on ttys000
$ IFS=$'\n'; for f in /Volumes /.Spotlight* /.Trashes /Library/Logs /private/
{var/{log,spool,db,vm,tmp},tmp} /Temp*; do sudo du -hsx $f; done; IFS=$' \t\n'
12K /Volumes
62G /.Spotlight-V100
0B /.Trashes
220K /Library/Logs
22M /private/var/log
36K /private/var/spool
436M /private/var/db
2.1G /private/var/vm
124K /private/var/tmp
1.1M /private/tmp
du: /Temp*: No such file or directory
62 Gigs by spotlight! I put my drive in the privacy panel and got the space back immediately. I think this may be a result of using Azureus bittorrent client, which writes millions of times in a large download. Could also be a bug somewhere else, though, too.
Hope this helps!
fellow
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Nov 1, 2007 6:45 PM
in response to: Allison Sheridan
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I had a similar issue when I initially installed tiger. I had a driver for a game controller that wasn't compatible and it started to write entries into the error log over and over and over until I had a log file over over 11GB. I was able to find this by doing a search for files created within the past day and over 1GB in size.
g5 2.7, powerbook g4 1.33
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Nov 1, 2007 7:19 PM
in response to: MJWeb
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I appreciate the suggestion, but you must be kidding. I've had Mac and Un*x boxes running running for months without rebooting. Rebooting is so mid-90s!
This is a dangerous error, and I started with an ERASE/INSTALL to make sure I was not bringing problems from Tiger and a few years of installing and tweaking software and OS.
Apple and MacFixIt should hear about this.
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Re: Disk space disappearing in Leopard
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Nov 2, 2007 12:01 AM
in response to: fellow
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Take a look in your CONSOLE application at the All Message or system.log or console logs, searching/filtering on mds.
I think the disk space was gone in about two of three hours. It appeared to be copying the contents of the disk to the /.Spotlight-V100 hidden root directory. I could not see it with WhatSize, Disk Inventory, jDiskReport, or any other disk analysis tools. After wresting with mdutils and privacy in spotlight, I could recover the space. However, each time I tried to re-index, I got the same multi GB and rising /.Spotlight-V100 directory with 16 hour time projections on the index. I also looked through my CONSOLE log view and found many errors from MDS and something like MDSTracker... Can't remember.
Decided to use the opportunity to try out Time Machine restore, and it looks good so far. Only had one backup going back to yesterday, due to the disk space debacle then eating earlier backups!
Fortunately I have two or three TIGER backups if I have to go back further.
There's also a related thread at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5727693#5727693
All the best,
fellow
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