Hard drive space getting smaller and smaller by itself
Hi there,
A couple of days ago, I had close to 20 gb of free space on my 60 gb hard drive. Then yesterday the space on my hard drive kept on getting decreasing and programs like powerpoint and system preferences would not open. I kept on deleting music and all sorts of things I did not need. The amount of space left would increase, but then it would just keep going down and down until I shut my MacBook off for a couple of hours. I took most of iLife, burned it to CD's then deleted them for extra space. Plus I figured that if I need iLife, which I really don't use, then I could just reinstall it with the DVDs. And last night I had about 10.9gb and today I have 10.34gb. I just checked and now I have 10.25gb. Where the space is going I have no clue, but I found it to be really bizzare. I thought maybe I have a virus, but I don't know how I'd get one because I haven't downloaded anything that I don't know where it's from for the longest time. And the last time I used the p2p Program Acquisition was in November I believe. If anyone knows what I should do, I would greatly appreciate it. Maybe I have to get a bigger hard drive, I don't know, but 60gb was always enough for me before.
Thanks so much!
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1st Generation
A couple of days ago, I had close to 20 gb of free space on my 60 gb hard drive. Then yesterday the space on my hard drive kept on getting decreasing and programs like powerpoint and system preferences would not open. I kept on deleting music and all sorts of things I did not need. The amount of space left would increase, but then it would just keep going down and down until I shut my MacBook off for a couple of hours. I took most of iLife, burned it to CD's then deleted them for extra space. Plus I figured that if I need iLife, which I really don't use, then I could just reinstall it with the DVDs. And last night I had about 10.9gb and today I have 10.34gb. I just checked and now I have 10.25gb. Where the space is going I have no clue, but I found it to be really bizzare. I thought maybe I have a virus, but I don't know how I'd get one because I haven't downloaded anything that I don't know where it's from for the longest time. And the last time I used the p2p Program Acquisition was in November I believe. If anyone knows what I should do, I would greatly appreciate it. Maybe I have to get a bigger hard drive, I don't know, but 60gb was always enough for me before.
Thanks so much!
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) 1st Generation
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 1st Generation