06-07-2010, 09:37 PM

Hi im new here on mac-forums, and im having my first troubles with my mac book in the almost 3 years i had it.

Alright, so I downloaded a program for tuning a ukulele ( it was about 1mb ), when ever I opened it worked fine tuned my ukulele perfectly. Around 10 minute - 1 hour period of time, i notice my hard disk available space was slowly disappearing, I thought it was from all the videos off youtube I downloaded, so I freed up some space, without doing anything on my computer, it was down to zero kb. When I restart my computer the available diskspace goes back to normal.

I secured empty from trash the application, and around after an hour it starts up again.

Any idea what the problem is? And any idea how i can fix this.

Cheers in advance.

06-07-2010, 11:06 PM

G'day and welcome to the forums.

First up, run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility under Utilities.

06-08-2010, 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by harryb2448

G'day and welcome to the forums.

First up, run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility under Utilities.

Alright il give that a try

06-08-2010, 08:32 AM

Originally Posted by harryb2448

G'day and welcome to the forums.

First up, run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility under Utilities.

Thanks Harry, my disk space isn't going down any more !!!

can I ask what was wrong with it? Was it because I downloaded that ukulele application?

06-08-2010, 06:46 PM

Probably something became corrupted and Repair Permissions straightened it out. In the 'olden days' we used to run maintenance scripts on a daily, weekly and monthly basis and one of the things carried out each week was Repair Permissions. Folk do not seem to do this any more and it is a first up option as Repair Permissions on Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard is a pretty powerful utility compared to Panther and earlier.