Every couple days I get this message from my Mac Book Air that my startup disk is full. I don't usually download anything. 24 of the 59 gigs of space are files I put there. I try and delete a couple things (never enough to free up 10 gb) then restart my computer and check the disk space to find 10 gigabytes available. I did some research and found out that the problem might be memory leaks from one or more applications. The problem is I don't know how to determine which applications are leaking, and I don't know what to do once I find them. Can anyone help me?
Edit:
I looked up things about diskspace and memory. I from what I read, memory is the space used to store running programs. Certain actions (such as saving a file) can copy data from memory to permanent storgage. When I check the diskspace a majority of what is taking up space is the yellow "other" category. From what I understand the data from the memory leak could be being saved somewhere. I could be wrong though.
Edit:
I looked up things about diskspace and memory. I from what I read, memory is the space used to store running programs. Certain actions (such as saving a file) can copy data from memory to permanent storgage. When I check the diskspace a majority of what is taking up space is the yellow "other" category. From what I understand the data from the memory leak could be being saved somewhere. I could be wrong though.