lion eating my hard drive space

I changed Time Machine options right now and I already disabled Local Snapshots some days ago.

Did not solve the my problem.

I have not done this yet, but my Mail folder is not that big and the size of the folder has not changed the recent days.

hi rsjm! Ran the command and it freed up 1 GB disc space. Gave me some more time until I have to delete more files from my hard drive again. But hope the original attachments are still there! :-)

@ Pondini: 1. I will post what ever I well please. 2. Just because those suggestions didn't work for me because I am not having the same issue doesn't mean they won't work for others. 3. I posted those suggestions because they happen to be methods that others have tried and it worked for them.

AMMOCAN wrote:

@ Pondini: 1. I will post what ever I well please.

Kindly refer to the Apple Support Communities Use Agreement governing use of this site, especially item 2.5.

From your post: "I personally haven't been able to confirm if the three suggestions below actually does anything . . ."

As I explained, the first twosuggestions have nothing to do with disk usage.

Yes, the third one may help, in certain circumstances. It has the same effect as turning Time Machine OFF on a laptop only, as you'd posted previously.

i used the command:

' sudo tmutil disablelocal '

in Terminal and currently after 3 mins i have gained 12GB of HDD disk space back... thats one **** of a odd feature to have in Lion, especially as the text in Time Machine Pref's says along the lines of old local snapshots will be deleted when disk becomes full who wants that on a portable laptop?! With no immediate 'switch' for it to be turned off..

Used this terminal command several times last week but never gave me any disk space back! :-(

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

Used this terminal command several times last week but never gave me any disk space back! :-(

That will only gain space if you have a laptop with Time Machine turned ON, and you've changed or deleted things in the last few days.

If you've tried all the theings in Where did my Disk Space go?, then use the WhatSize (or other app) mentioned there. If that doesn't show anything unexpected, take a screen shot of it. If your free space continues to shrink, run the app again and compare the results to the screenshot.

Yea I have a MacBook and I have Time Machine turned on (again) after I have turned it off for some days. And never when I ran this command it gave me back any disc space.

Tried the things on oyur site and will use one of these apps later on.

Anyway time to install Lion a new is coming soon to get back disc space again!

Do you get the same disk space data in: About This Mac, MacIntosh HD Get Info , Disk Utility and Activity Monitor?

For me, the first showed a bar chart of the usage and the second showed only user usage. The last two added Snapshot usage to user usage.

I sent a BR asking Apple to separate the Snapshot usage from the User usage. The former is really a form of swap file which will shrink if the space is required by the user.

This is happening to me too!!

I disabled local snapshots:

enter this in the terminal:
sudo tmutil disablelocal

now my free space has doubled, all of the local snapshots are gone! thank youuuu.

putnik wrote:

Do you get the same disk space data in: About This Mac, MacIntosh HD Get Info , Disk Utility and Activity Monitor?

For me, the first showed a bar chart of the usage and the second showed only user usage. The last two added Snapshot usage to user usage.

I sent a BR asking Apple to separate the Snapshot usage from the User usage. The former is really a form of swap file which will shrink if the space is required by the user.

I get everywhere the same numbers. But I have Local Snapshots turned off on time!

Kudos to Pondini!

OmniDiskSweeper finally showed me, what is eating my hard drive space:

/private/var/log/asl/

/private/var/log/system.log

Now I have to find out why and how to stop it!