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Can I delete "/.DocumentRevisions-V100" "

This is another variation on the loss of storage disk space in Mountain Lion - and it has driven me crazy now for several days! I have tried EVERYTHING from Pondini to (hope he forgives me - Houdini!) and so far I still have vast amounts of drive space 'lost' under 'Other'

I have been using iBooks Author a lot recently - and the file for my new book has become large. I made space by moving some large files (Music etc) to another external hard drive) - BUT - despite following all the excellent advice given by Pondini and others I still get this .. ie only 25.81 GB available!

I have used Omni disk sweeper - which tells me that I am only using some 70GB on my 250 GB Flash drive on my iMac. This appears to be just re User, Apps Library etc - as shown here

I have tried searchimg with 'About this mac - storage' and at first this is what it showed ie 181.95 GB as 'Other'

Now, after I deleted some duplicate files I found via What size is showing this! BUT - the audio/music etc are still where they should be!

However, this is not my real problem - which is how to recover hard drive space....

What size - shows me the following detailed file info (this is an extract from a long list )

My question for the experts is this - why do I have such huge files under 'Document Revisions - V 100? and several of them?

Are these copies of my iBook files - which I thought I had removed? What can I delete of these /documentRevisons - without causing a disaster?

How can I recover as much of the 'Other' as possible? And, yes, I have tried all I can try as suggested by Pondini.

BUT - these 'Others' are behaving like Houdini - ie they seem to be able to escape from me!

any help please?????

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4), 3,4Ghz i7, i7 Flash dr, 8 GB RAM

Posted on Aug 22, 2013 4:12 PM

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Alan Goodall Author

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Aug 23, 2013 8:28 AM in response to Pondini

Thanks again! The reason I asked for clarification re the DocumentsRevison folder is that I had seen - on another post - that someone said just to delete the contents.

OK - message clear and will do! Yes I have good backups (both belts and braces) via TimeCapsule and SuperDuper

Re var and the 'big stuff' - as I said above What size shows 71.3 GB as Trash. What 'trash' is this? I have securely emptied the trash.

Pondini

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Aug 23, 2013 8:42 AM in response to Alan Goodall

Alan Goodall wrote:

. . .

Re var and the 'big stuff' - as I said above What size shows 71.3 GB as Trash. What 'trash' is this? I have securely emptied the trash.

Earlier you mentioned a trash folder inside the Recovered Files folder, which seemed to be that size. See my reply there.

In the WhatSize screenprint, there's seems to be a .Trash folder inside /private? Again, use list or column view to figure out the hierarchy.

Both are different from the normal trash folders.

Pondini

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Aug 23, 2013 10:02 AM in response to Alan Goodall

Alan Goodall wrote:

. .

Is it now safe to delete these - driectly from What size?

As long as you don't need them, yes.

Very odd that there are so many of them -- that ususally indicates some sort of hardware or software problem, power failures, etc.

Ellyenne

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Feb 7, 2016 2:37 PM in response to Pondini

Late reply, but I just upgrade to Lion.

I can Delete the folder, and give myself read-write permissions, and the folder will show up in the Trash, BUT I cannot empty the trash.

I've set the entire folder to read/write, and applied to the content.

But, I get an error 22 when I try to empty the trash.

And,

I've tried "deleting all old versions", and the file DOES NOT GET ANY SMALLER! I removed 5 pages from a 10 page PDF in Preview, and it doubled in size.

I would move to something other than Lion, but my early 2008 Mac Book Pro can't cope.

HELP

Ellen

Ellyenne

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Feb 7, 2016 2:54 PM in response to Ellyenne

Well, it would not let me edit, so here is my edit:

OK, never mine. I was trying to securely empty the trash (my default). It would not do that. BUT, when I set it to just empty, the nasty files went away.

BUT, my PDF is still 2.2MB, when it has half the content that it did when it was 1.1MB. Yes, I deleted the old versions. Yes, I used the default preferences to globally set the versions OFF. It still does it. This versions/auto-save is a very bad thing - even Microsoft made versions optional.

Linc Davis

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Aug 22, 2013 5:17 PM in response to Alan Goodall

The first thing you should do is rebuild the Spotlight index, because it's corrupt. The amount of free space you have is adequate, unless you're planning to add a lot more data.

Alan Goodall Author

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Aug 23, 2013 7:33 AM in response to Alan Goodall

I have selected only small portions of the grab - so I hope this will work now! User uploaded file

Alan Goodall Author

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Aug 23, 2013 4:57 AM in response to Alan Goodall

I coud not add this re private/var image to the above post - so I have attached it here

User uploaded file

Alan Goodall Author

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Aug 23, 2013 7:19 AM in response to Pondini

User uploaded file

Alan Goodall Author

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Aug 23, 2013 7:21 AM in response to Pondini

I am sorry - I do not seem to have any luck with added images!

Every time I try to add the jpegs - they appear to be uploaded OK - then, as you can see - they are not posted!

Alan Goodall Author

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Aug 23, 2013 7:41 AM in response to Alan Goodall

they are files from my computer - it keeps telling now there is an error

I will close Safari, re-open and try again!

Linc Davis

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Aug 23, 2013 7:42 AM in response to Alan Goodall

As long as you don't mind losing all your saved versions, you can delete the DocumentRevisions folder. Back up all data first, and reboot afterwards.

Pondini

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Aug 23, 2013 12:01 PM in response to Alan Goodall

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