Watching GB disappear before my eyes.
Hi everyone,
I am having a rather unusual issue on my iMac, but found a similar thread here: http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/156536/macs-hard-drive-fills-up-before-my-eyes- gbs-disappear-in-minutes
Here is what is happening: My internal startup disk (250GB SSD drive) keeps filling up. This is a disk I use ONLY for applications, which aren't taking up much space. I have looked at hidden files, looked at maps of the disk to see what's eating up the space, and cannot find what is stealing the drive space. Last night, I tried to re-index using spotlight, and it kept stopping before it would finish the task, saying that the drive was out of space. It had 18GB free when I started the index, and within 60 minutes, it was down to 0 GB. Upon restart, it was back at 18GB. I have moved nearly all documents, movies, pictures, audio onto external drives, yet the problem persists. Any ideas here? I would like to just erase and start over.
Specs:
iMac - exactly 3 years old this week
2.8 GHz Intel Core i7
8GB 1333 MHz DDR3
two internal drives (SSD 250GB and 1 T)
Several large externals housing other files (6-10 TB +)
OS X 10.8.5 (would like to update, but keep getting warnings there isn't enough space!)
Thank you!
kat