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I keep getting a message saying my start up disk is nearly full, but I have deleted photos, films audio etc . Omnisweeper says a tokenizer is taking up space. can I delete this?

I keep getting this message but have deleted audio/film/photos and have emptied the trash. Two thirds of my disk seems to be taken up by "other" files.

Omniseeper is showing 381 MB in the usr directory, 226 of which are "share" and 96 MB of which are tokenizer. Could this be the problem and can I delete these files?


Please help!

MacBook Air, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

Posted on Jan 22, 2014 10:17 AM

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Posted on Jan 22, 2014 10:23 AM

1. Start up in Safe Mode.


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212


2. Reset PRAM. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4405




3. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.


Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.


Select "Library" from the dropdown.


Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes

Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.

Empty Trash. Restart.



4. Repair Disk


Steps 1 through 7


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836



5. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots


http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878



6. Re-index Macintosh HD


System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy


http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

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dominic23
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Jan 22, 2014 10:23 AM in response to jdParigee

1. Start up in Safe Mode.


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212


2. Reset PRAM. http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4405




3. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.


Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.


Select "Library" from the dropdown.


Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes

Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.

Empty Trash. Restart.



4. Repair Disk


Steps 1 through 7


http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836



5. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots


http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878



6. Re-index Macintosh HD


System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy


http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

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Jan 22, 2014 12:18 PM in response to jdParigee

Thanks for this.


1 though to 4. And things are working a little better.


I don't use and have never set up Time Machine - is this step still a possible solution?


I don't understand step 6. Which file whould I put here and if I undertsand correctlt I am to drag them here then remove them?


I still only have 4 GB of space apparently availble with 22.8GB being taken up by "other".


I don't use mail on this computer either if that helps.


Thanks so much - this is driving me crazy! I can't even run standard up-dates!

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I keep getting a message saying my start up disk is nearly full, but I have deleted photos, films audio etc . Omnisweeper says a tokenizer is taking up space. can I delete this?

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