OS 10.4 - Sudden Loss of HD space...

MACyMouse · MACyMouse #1 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 05:30 PM

Was working in iMovie.... and went to save a simple Quicktime clip of 26 megs.... I have a 120 gig HD... but got an error saying not enough disk space available....

Noticed that I went from having 87 gig of space to practically nothing.... anyone know what's happening??

I saw in another thread about the program called Disk Inventory but that program isn't showing anything that's eating up all this space... largest file is 9 gig which is my system Library... next highest is 6 gig, then 2 gig... but not all these would add up to 80 gig of space....
This is a brand new MacBook pro.... 5 days old.....

Help? Anyone??? Thanks

neye:

macAttack · macAttack #2 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 05:50 PM

are you sure you're saving it to your hard drive? is your saving preference somewhere else?

MACyMouse · MACyMouse #3 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 06:14 PM

Yes....... I'm sure....
100% sure

dtravis7 · dtravis7 #4 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 06:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MACyMouse

Was working in iMovie.... and went to save a simple Quicktime clip of 26 megs.... I have a 120 gig HD... but got an error saying not enough disk space available....

Noticed that I went from having 87 gig of space to practically nothing.... anyone know what's happening??

neye:

Right click on the HDD icon and do a get info. How much does it show?

baggss · baggss #5 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 06:45 PM

It almost sounds like iMovie was eating up a lot of HDD space for VM or Swap Files. Did you get the space back when you closed iMovie? If not, try restarting.

PowerBookG4 · PowerBookG4 #6 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 08:32 PM

maybe its converting it to higher quality? 5 minutes = 1 gig

MACyMouse · MACyMouse #7 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 08:39 PM

I'm in the middle of an i Movie project.. the size is only 800 megs right now.... I'm only into 2 minutes worth of a 4 minute video.....
I've restarted, I've closed down but nothings changed... I'm now showing 24 gig tho but still that's ALOT from just a half hours time... to suddenly drop like that....

MACyMouse · MACyMouse #8 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 08:42 PM

Quote:

Right click on the HDD icon and do a get info. How much does it show?

Capacity 111.35
Available 24.02
Used 87.33

MACyMouse · MACyMouse #9 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 08:55 PM

OMG!!!!! What the?????? I just noticed my trash was full.... it wasn't just a few minutes ago..... just suddenly went full.... I emptied it.... I'm back up to my regular capacity.............

I don't understand what it was????

dtravis7 · dtravis7 #10 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 08:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MACyMouse

OMG!!!!! What the?????? I just noticed my trash was full.... it wasn't just a few minutes ago..... just suddenly went full.... I emptied it.... I'm back up to my regular capacity.............

I don't understand what it was????

Temp files from your movies.

macAttack · macAttack #11 (**permalink**)

05-13-2006, 08:59 PM

did you edit the clip and remove a lot of it? because that doesn't get deleted when you delete it in imovie, you have to empty the trash.

macAttack #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 23, 2005 Location: Cape Cod, MA Posts: 1,509 Mac Specs: iBook	05-13-2006, 05:50 PM are you sure you're saving it to your hard drive? is your saving preference somewhere else? SpeedTest
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PowerBookG4 #6 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 08, 2005 Location: New Jersey Posts: 6,190 Mac Specs: Mac Pro 8x3.0ghz 12gb ram 8800GT , MBP 2.16 2GB Ram 17 inch.	05-13-2006, 08:32 PM maybe its converting it to higher quality? 5 minutes = 1 gig My Website Blog I love my hosting company! I was on the M-F honor roll for Febuary:2006
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macAttack #11 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 23, 2005 Location: Cape Cod, MA Posts: 1,509 Mac Specs: iBook	05-13-2006, 08:59 PM did you edit the clip and remove a lot of it? because that doesn't get deleted when you delete it in imovie, you have to empty the trash. SpeedTest
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MACyMouse #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 25, 2004 Location: Australia (American born) Posts: 710 Mac Specs: MBP 15" 2006 \| 2011 21.5in iMac-1tb-i5-12gig \| iPhone 3gs	05-13-2006, 05:30 PM Was working in iMovie.... and went to save a simple Quicktime clip of 26 megs.... I have a 120 gig HD... but got an error saying not enough disk space available.... Noticed that I went from having 87 gig of space to practically nothing.... anyone know what's happening?? I saw in another thread about the program called Disk Inventory but that program isn't showing anything that's eating up all this space... largest file is 9 gig which is my system Library... next highest is 6 gig, then 2 gig... but not all these would add up to 80 gig of space.... This is a brand new MacBook pro.... 5 days old..... Help? Anyone??? Thanks neye:
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baggss #5 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 10, 2004 Location: Margaritaville Posts: 10,306 Mac Specs: 27" 3.4 Ghz i7 iMac-13" C2D Macbook-OSX 18.8.2-64Gb iPad 2-32 Gb iPhone 5-ATV 2-14Tb of Storage	05-13-2006, 06:45 PM It almost sounds like iMovie was eating up a lot of HDD space for VM or Swap Files. Did you get the space back when you closed iMovie? If not, try restarting.
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MACyMouse #7 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 25, 2004 Location: Australia (American born) Posts: 710 Mac Specs: MBP 15" 2006 \| 2011 21.5in iMac-1tb-i5-12gig \| iPhone 3gs	05-13-2006, 08:39 PM I'm in the middle of an i Movie project.. the size is only 800 megs right now.... I'm only into 2 minutes worth of a 4 minute video..... I've restarted, I've closed down but nothings changed... I'm now showing 24 gig tho but still that's ALOT from just a half hours time... to suddenly drop like that....
	QUOTE Thanks

MACyMouse #9 (permalink)
Member Since: Oct 25, 2004 Location: Australia (American born) Posts: 710 Mac Specs: MBP 15" 2006 \| 2011 21.5in iMac-1tb-i5-12gig \| iPhone 3gs	05-13-2006, 08:55 PM OMG!!!!! What the?????? I just noticed my trash was full.... it wasn't just a few minutes ago..... just suddenly went full.... I emptied it.... I'm back up to my regular capacity............. I don't understand what it was????
	QUOTE Thanks

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