memory problems

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memory problems

Hello!

i got a big problem i get the pop up message Start up disk nearly full all the time and i don't know why i checked the finder for big files and can't find any except a few games. i checked the memory and 104 GB was taken by Others as you can see here on my screenshot. i went to finder and didn't find anything with such big files. so I'm suspecting virus I'm not sure thats why i need your help.

övrigt means: others

bilder: photos

program: yea you can figure that out

ljud:sounds

filmer:movies

//Filip

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Oct 11, 2015 2:17 PM

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a brody

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Oct 11, 2015 3:35 PM in response to Filip Nydahl

Suffice it to say, when you had 20 GB free, that's when you should have started being concerned. If this happened without anything prior to it, your Mac may just need to run overnight with Energy Saver turned off, but screen saver turned on.

That would clean up the excess log files.

If your data is backed up, you can try forcing the situation by running Applications -> Utilities ->Terminal to do

sudo update daily

sudo update weekly

sudo update monthly

With your administrator password. This forces the log files to clean up. Do so only with the machine completely disconnected from the internet.

Restart the computer when done to return it to non-sudo mode. The Mac will remain in "superuser" mode for a specific time period, where it could be vulnerable until it automatically logs off. This is why I say restart when done, as that forces it out of the sudo mode.

If you still have trouble cleaning it, the end of my tip:

http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-1689

should help.

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