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Oct 22, 2013 5:36 AM in response to CalebGraysonby thomas_r.,★HelpfulA tool like OmniDiskSweeper cannot be used to compare to the numbers the Finder will give you, for a variety of reasons. You can do better by using a tool that can authenticate to "root" permissions, which allows it to look everywhere. The WhatSize app can do that:
However, even then, there are certain things that the Finder won't report, since they will be deleted automatically when necessary. So you'll never get perfect one-to-one correlation with these kinds of comparisons.
For more help with this sort of thing, see:
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Oct 22, 2013 1:03 PM in response to thomas_r.by CalebGrayson,i didn't want to spend $13 just to find out about a few GB difference.. you really think that 60GB could be hidden and only this paid app can show that to me? and can it then delete it?
i read that link from pondini.org and it was very usefu information. i follwed all it suggestions and still couldn't find 60GB or anything over 8.
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Oct 22, 2013 1:20 PM in response to CalebGraysonby thomas_r.,60 GB could easily be hidden away in a number of different places, but you wouldn't want to delete any of that unless you know exactly what you're doing. Those locations wouldn't be likely to be causing the problem anyway.
Did you examine the size of the log files, as indicated in that link I gave you? My guess here would be a runaway log file, but that could be wrong.
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Oct 22, 2013 1:38 PM in response to CalebGraysonby petermac87,Do you perhaps have a second User account carried over from another install? How did you install the current system?
Pete
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Oct 22, 2013 4:05 PM in response to thomas_r.by CalebGrayson,i found the problem..sorta.
i broke donw and got WahtSize and it shows 60GB in the sytem folder under:
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/data has 1GB
and then there's about 100 files all 611MBthat look like this:
/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/grow.fPotKe1
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Oct 22, 2013 4:06 PM in response to petermac87by CalebGrayson,i have contiunally upgraded my account from serveral past computers..so that's a possibility.
i deleted them, though, and created a new one.
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Apr 9, 2014 5:39 PM in response to CalebGraysonby rlbruderick,If found the same problem. My MacbookPro so over-filled that I had to restart in safe mode, delete some big files, buy WhatSize, and then discover the DISEASE. 555Mb files were being cached, they're in System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd/
It's still doing it!
How do I kill it?
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Apr 9, 2014 7:58 PM in response to rlbruderickby CalebGrayson,i dont' know why it stoppe don mine.
i had to clear it out a couple of times and not it doesn't do it anymore.. mayby an OS upgrade i did!?
good luck!
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