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LittleBigGuy
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Hey all,
Anyone have an idea what could be causing me to be adding scores of MB of "something" to my hard drive every day, whether I create new files or not?
For the past several months, the space remaining on my hard drive has been shrinking. At first, I thought that I just was, in fact, using it up, although it seemed to be moving pretty fast. A few months ago, I deleted all my music (7 GB), but now it's back to nearly full.
It seems to be phantom files. My hard drive has 37.13 GB of capacity, and according to "get info" on the hard drive itself, I have used 36.23 GB.
But the hard drive has 12 folders on it. According to "get info" on those 12 folders, they sum together to 9.36 GB. That's a number that is more in line with how much space I would expect to be using.
Could it be spyware or something? I estimate that one day of use on the machine creates about 100 MB of "something" that uses up hard drive space. I saw reference in the archives to a problem with File Vault being on, but my system says it is off.
Any suggestions?
I have a G4 PowerBook, 40G hard drive, OS 10.3.7.
Anyone have an idea what could be causing me to be adding scores of MB of "something" to my hard drive every day, whether I create new files or not?
For the past several months, the space remaining on my hard drive has been shrinking. At first, I thought that I just was, in fact, using it up, although it seemed to be moving pretty fast. A few months ago, I deleted all my music (7 GB), but now it's back to nearly full.
It seems to be phantom files. My hard drive has 37.13 GB of capacity, and according to "get info" on the hard drive itself, I have used 36.23 GB.
But the hard drive has 12 folders on it. According to "get info" on those 12 folders, they sum together to 9.36 GB. That's a number that is more in line with how much space I would expect to be using.
Could it be spyware or something? I estimate that one day of use on the machine creates about 100 MB of "something" that uses up hard drive space. I saw reference in the archives to a problem with File Vault being on, but my system says it is off.
Any suggestions?
I have a G4 PowerBook, 40G hard drive, OS 10.3.7.