what is taking up hard drive space?

Hey Aqua, so I went to the AppleJack link that you gave me, and on that page I saw an ad for an app called MacKeeper. It said to use that before AppleJack. I didn't think twice about this not being legit since it was on the page that you refered me to, so I downloaded it and ran it. The app was a little confusing, because you can't tell if it's doing anything, but my bigger concern is that I looked up the instructions for this MacKeeper app and in my search i saw many posts about the app being a scam, with mentions of viruses.

Did I just screw up? (i only did the scan part. No actual repairs or trashing of files).

hmmm....ok. There was definitely no warning, or caveat as you called it, but even if there was, I don't know what Malware is anyway...lol. I think i just learned what it is. Malware is bad.... =)

I'm usually so aware of illegitimate adds, and i never click on them, but i totally had my guard down, being that i was refered to a trusted page. Totally my fault.

I will follow your uninstall instructions, but can you tell me what i may have done to my computer by downloading and running that app?

thank you all!I learned a lesson...

(Sorry Aqua, for ruining your good advice. I'm trying to correct my mistake with Ramon's help, and continue where I left off. And that was, running AppleJack...)

Alex

ok, thank you Ramon!

the bad stuff (MacKeeper) is removed.

I quit MacKeeper from the activity monitor, and i trashed the app.

that's all the instructions said.

Now I think I will run AppleJack, as Limnos, and as BDAqua had originally suggested, and I WILL NOT be fooled into clicking on some dumb, fake link.

I will update soon.

thank you all!

I should add that after running OmniDiskSweeper, (since my initial problem was a REALLY sluggish computer with lots of beach ball delays.....and it's getting worse), it tells me that the biggest chunk of hard drive space is Applications(72.3GB), Library(52.9GB), and Users(23.2GB).

The biggest chunk within these 3 folders are Apple Loops(26.8GB), Garage Band app (13Gb), and Logic files(42.6GB)

(should I move apple loops, and logic files to an external...?)

The total space being used on my hard drive is 154.3GBs. The total capacity is 233.6GB.

Now, I'm not an experienced mac tech, but my limited knowledge tells me that this is no big deal.

I mean, I'm only using 66%.

I have almost 100GBs of space left.

Am I correct in thinking this?

Would it also be a safe assumption to think that the cause of my sluggishness is not because of how much hard drive space I'm taking up?

I thank you all for your continued input!!!!

(i'm off to use my AppleJack now....)

hey guys, i'm tryin to get apple jack to work.

I rebooted, and held down apple+s, and got the black screen, but it wasn't clear where to type 'applejack AUTO'

After the first 2 paragraphs of stuff i don't really understand, it then says:

If you want to make modifications to files:

/sbin/fsck -fy

/sbin/mount -uw /

If you wish to boot the system:

exit

For troubleshooting assistance, just type 'applejack' at the prompt

:/ root# s

And that is where it ends.

So I started typing, and it the word applejack as i typed it, ended up immediately after the letter "s", so that it looks like:

:/ root# sapplejack AUTO

but nothing happened, so I then hit "Return" and still nothing happened, and then i just had to force shut down of course, and I'm back at the same spot....

what do I do?

(i feel like i missed out on some kind of "introductory to mac computers" course somwhere along the line. =)

thank you!!

On the black screen in single user mode, at the very end of those first 2 paragraphs that I mentioned before, it says:

Singleuser boot -- fsck not done

Root device is mounted read-only

Is this of any relevance?

Figured it out. Running AJ now....

hmmm....ya know Aqua, I would do that, but it's been stuck on task #1 for the last 15 minutes without moving.

I started the same app on my lap top at the same time, and the whole process finished in 5 minutes or so.

But on this power mac which is having all the problems, it started applejack auto mode, and started with disk repair, but it never got past:

** /dev/rdisk0s3

** Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.

** Checking Extents Overflow file.

** Checking Catalog file.

And that's where it has been for the last .....15 minutes now.

I need to go to sleep. Got to be up in 6 hours.

This stinks because the fans are racing and they're kind of loud.

I would force shut down because it seems like it's frozen, but i want to give it a chance to continue just in case it's not actually frozen.

Well, we'll see what happens in the morning. Putting my ear plugs on...

=)

alex