My storage goes down drastically everyday for no reason

About every other day I get the message saying that my storage space is about used up or competely full and I should remove some files. And I know it's wrong because 1) I have not added anything new to my hard drive 2) everything I use is attached to an external HD and 3) when ever I restart my laptop, the storage space gets reset to its real used storage (about 17 gigs).

I don't know why it just started doing this. I had this laptop for almost 3 years. Does anyone know what is causing this and where all this unused supposed drive space is going?

Thanks.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5), 15 in high res dis mid2010 128 hdd

Posted on Apr 16, 2013 8:34 PM

19 replies

Bethani G Author

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Apr 23, 2013 6:53 PM in response to Linc Davis

well it's not in the proccesses anymore. but my storage still doesn't seem acurate.

Linc Davis

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Apr 23, 2013 8:54 PM in response to Bethani G

I'm afraid that's a little too vague for me to be able to add anything useful. If you still have a memory leak, you'll have to hunt it down as I indicated earlier.

Apr 23, 2013 9:53 PM in response to Bethani G

did u do the back up for ur devices on this laptop? those backups r huge. Try delete them if that's the case.

did u install other system like win? that'll also occupy the space.

Bethani G Author

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Apr 26, 2013 1:38 PM in response to Angie Jiang

I don't back up anything on here. All of my backups are on other external hard drives. And yeah, I do have Windows XP partitioned on my internal SSD but it's seperate from my start-up disk. occasionally I still check to see if my memory leaks, and it does by about 5 GB so it's not a HUGE deal but it's still irratiting. I have no idea what it is and I think now it's a lost cause and that my laptop is just "getting old" and it's something i'll have to put up with until I get another one.

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My storage goes down drastically everyday for no reason