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false message hard drive full 10.5

I have often a pop up message : your hard drive is full. If I am looking on my HD information there is written 0 mg remaining . If I restart the computer, I can read 51 G. Few minutes after the pop up come on again and it's like if the HD lost 51G of space ! Some time remaining space is changing when I am reading on the screen. I rebuilded the volume, used Disk utility for permissions, I tested the Hard drive ....

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), WD 500 G Black, 4G ram

Posted on Apr 15, 2012 9:08 AM

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wintersnow Author

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Apr 26, 2012 5:07 PM in response to BDAqua

I found few old folder like Nortonautoprotect and NortonMissedTasks I have trashed Norton few mouth ago, FanControl Daemon and a curious plist : com.seagate.Seagatestoragegauge and fancontrol.prefpane. I

In the 3rd row I have fan control, flash player, menu mete, norton autoprotect, ntfs and Tuxera Ntfs. I should clean up again.

Other wierd think. When I was in safe mode my HD capacity was 68 G. Now it's 64 G, no, it was 64G few minute ago and now it's 58G.

Thank you

wintersnow Author

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Apr 26, 2012 5:43 PM in response to wintersnow

Now I have 16G of capacity 45 minutes after.

BDAqua

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Apr 26, 2012 6:04 PM in response to wintersnow

I think it's Norton, you have to use an uninstaller to get all it's files, if Norton's uninstaller doesn't work maybe try AppZapper...

http://www.appzapper.com/

wintersnow Author

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Apr 27, 2012 12:00 PM in response to BDAqua

I have uninstalled remaning Norton stuff and Sophos too, all Seagate stuff. I created a second user accompt, It was the same story, the computer HD capacity begun at 68G like in safe boot but not at 64G for the main user accompt and after boot it was the count down of HD capacity

Can you say more about graphic card and Quartz ? I have a MBP 2.2 with the Nvidia Graphic card. Apple store have changed the MB one year ago.

BDAqua

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Apr 27, 2012 12:54 PM in response to wintersnow

Did we ever open Console in Utilities & see if there were messages indicating what is going on?

Open Activity Monitor, Show:>All Processes, sort on CPU%, see if anything using too much CPU% when this happens, click on Memory tab, do you have many Pageouts?

Sort on Virtual Memory, is something steadily increasing VM? If so what?

false message hard drive full 10.5