Temporary Files Hogging Disk Space?

Your remaining disk space was very low even before starting the download. When it gets that low interesting things tend to happen.

I recommend you look in your Downloads folder for anything you can delete. Any temporary downloads will have been placed there. Generally speaking all disk image (.dmg) files are no longer necessary after you have installed the apps and other files they contain, so drag them to the Trash. Delete old Mail messages and erase deleted items in all accounts. Empty iPhoto's Trash, same for iMovie. Look for old music files, movies, pictures, or podcasts. Don't forget to empty the Trash (obvious, but sometimes forgotten). Get your free disk space into the double digits so that OS X has some room to work. Then, try to download and install LoL again.

More information here, courtesy of Apple Support Communities contributor Pondini's FAQ:

Consider booting from your Snow Leopard or original System Install DVD and running Disk Utility. Repair the disk. Doing so may resolve any discrepancy between what the Finder is reporting and the actual amount of free space available, if such a discrepancy exists. The possibility of a discrepancy increases if your available space becomes very small, which yours certainly is.

The contents of /private/var/tmp/ is for OS X to manage, but its contents total almost nothing on this Mac:

Johns-iMac:~ john$ sudo ls -l /private/var/tmp/

Password:

total 16

-rw-r--r--@ 1 john wheel 6148 Feb 12 12:24 .DS_Store

srw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 Mar 13 00:37 com.barebones.authd.socket

drwx------ 3 root wheel 102 Mar 13 00:37 launchd

Johns-iMac:~ john$

Reboot your Mac, then find out what is in yours: in Terminal, use sudo ls -l /private/var/tmp/ as in the above.

Type your Admin password at the prompt and press Return. Terminal does not echo the characters. Copy and past its results in a reply.

I have the same problem. i have lost 3 gb after deleting det app, i would also love to know where those files are so that i can delete them.

Sorry if my English is not so good

Jhon galt: i treid what you sayd and the list was to long to copy past into here. but the result was.

Password:

total 9702192

I think so too, now we just have to find out what we should delete.

I'm having the same problem. My daughter started playing League of Lengends and since she started it has deposited 18GB of TMPxxxxxx files in the private/var/tmp folder.

My OS is on a smaller SSD an so it maxed out my storage. I'm just deleting all the files. If you sort by file size, the top ten largest files account for 60% of space. There was approximately 150,000 files generated in less than two weeks.