lion eating my hard drive space

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

So I uninstalled Adobe AIR, as I haven't used any AIR application for months.

Hope this will stop this!

That shoud do it, you can also delete those log files and free up 14gb of space 🙂

Tony T1 wrote:

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

So I uninstalled Adobe AIR, as I haven't used any AIR application for months.

Hope this will stop this!

That shoud do it, you can also delete those log files and free up 14gb of space 🙂

Just deleting 1.581.959 Files, that were generated since the last new installaton of Lion 24 hours ago.

P.S.: Guess all these small files that were produced all the time also slowed down my Time Machine Backups.

Georg Portenkirchner wrote:

Just deleting 1.581.959 Files, that were generated since the last new installaton of Lion 24 hours ago.

Several hours later I had again an AUX folder with nearly 400.000 files, because I forgot to delete the AIR files in my ~/Library/Application Support folder. Did this now and hope this problem is gone now!

Did you use the AIR unintaller?

Uninstalling Adobe AIR on a Mac computer

1. Double-click the "Adobe AIR Uninstaller", which is located in the /Applications/Utilities folder.

Tony

Yes of course I used the uninstaller, and after deleting the AIR folder in my Application Support folder, no Adobe AIR log files were generated anymore! :-)

Not a good uninstaller by Adobe if you had to manually delete the AIR folder in Application Support

(...but then again, not a good App if it throws-up 4GB of log files a day 🙂)

You never would expect unreliable software of Aodobe! ;-)

The Mail Issue was definately the problem for me. Thanks to OmniSweeper I just found and deleted 120GB rapidy duplicating mail attachments! AndreJK do yu think that fixed it? Or will it keep happening?

I have just discovered that this is happening to me too. A few days ago I installed Adobe Photoshop Elements and since then **even when I am not running PE** it is creating **hundreds of thousands** of cached files, every day.

These files reside here:

private/var/log/asl/AUX 2011.08.04 (followed by thousands of files)

then AUX 2011.08.05 (followed by thousands of files)

etc.

By doing a "whatis" on any one of these files, I learn that they are "Adobe Photoshop Elements styles files"

How can I stop Adobe from generating these files?

The problem is fixed for me, after the initial generation of duplicate attachments my Mail is now creating them only for the new read e-mails.

I start to think, that this could be considered a normal behaviour by Apple, to have a copy of each attachment for faster search. It would be less of a problem with a large disk drive or a smaller mail database (I use a Macbook Air with 60GB of SSD.)

Andrej

Hi Guys

Yes I was having the exact same problem since installing Lion two days ago and I believe that uninstalling Adobe Air and all supported files has given me back the Mb's I've lost and it no longer seams to be deminishing.

Thanks very much.

I am experiencing the same problem with my macbook... I cleared everthing off and did a reboot... looks like Lion is currently using 10.6 Gb which is off from what I hear it supposed to be taking up. I havent added any music or documents back to the computer and have an appointment at the Genius Bar on wednesday. I figured this was a hard drive problem not a Lion problem... I will post my findings. I went from using about 100GB to using 285Gb to using 318GB in the span of a few weeks. My machine was showing 119 GB of "other" in the storage bar. The first Genius appointment thought it was because I was using 2 users on my machine. That clearly is not the case... 45 GB vanished off my machine within a week after meeting with the Genius guys... this is a normal use machine. (used for some photos, itunes, and some documents). I am anxious to find some better answers. Because this will not work.

For the Mail issue there are options in the account menu under advanced for it to no longer save copies of your mail attachments or even the messages themselves.

Since installing Mac OS X 10.7.3 over a month ago, I have noticed a pattern of what appears to be continual erosion of available RAM on my MacBook over a few days, which continues until the available hard drive space is also diminished. If I take no corrective action, the hard drive space gets consumed and a warning message appears. The corrective action is to restart the machine, upon which the available hard drive space returns to a reasonable value.

I first observed this problem when printing a one-page detailed advertisement in contained in a PDF file using Adobe Reader with a scale to fit option - which slowed down the MacBook to a stop every time and used up the hard drive space. My solution was to use Preview for printing that PDF file.

Even when avoiding the Adobe scale to fit problem, occasionally RAM and then hard drive space got used up and operation was stopped and some “out of memory” message appeared when using other memory intensive applications, such as Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and Garmin Lifetime Map Updater (GPS) - especially if I had restarted the MacBook more than three days ago or so,

It appears that these applications consume both real memory (RAM) and virtual memory (when my MacBook’s 2 GB RAM is insufficient). It also appears that when these applications are exited normally, they do not return all that memory to the pool for subsequent use by other applications.

I suspect that the disk space used for virtual memory by an application is not completely released on exit, and subsequent use accumulates the unreleased amount of disk space that was used for virtual memory - until the disk space is completely used up.

My strategy is to (1) restart before beginning a seriously memory-intensive task; and (2) occasionally monitor the available hard drive space at the bottom of a Finder window and restart the MacBook if it becomes unexplainably low.

The necessity and success of that second step (in restoring the “available” hard disk space) persuades me that Lion has a virtual memory leakage problem.

Tom in London wrote:

I have just discovered that this is happening to me too. A few days ago I installed Adobe Photoshop Elements and since then **even when I am not running PE** it is creating **hundreds of thousands** of cached files, every day.

These files reside here:

private/var/log/asl/AUX 2011.08.04 (followed by thousands of files)

then AUX 2011.08.05 (followed by thousands of files)

etc.

By doing a "whatis" on any one of these files, I learn that they are "Adobe Photoshop Elements styles files"

How can I stop Adobe from generating these files?

I had the same problem a year or two ago. Once had to clear out 14 GB of adobe styles files when running seriously low on hd space, and whenever I was actually using PE for more than a few hours it would literally blue screen on me and crash to login window (couldn't even crash to desktop like a civilised program!)

I use GIMP & Inkscape now 😉

I never found out how to stop Photoshop from doing that, but I'm guessing it happens to a lot of people; worth checking Adobe support fora to see if anyone's ever offered a fix.