So, a few days ago I noticed my hard drive running out of space to the tune of 14 gigs being gone in the course of a morning so that I was left with 0 space. I'd had this happen before when Time Machine tried to back-up to the same hard drive it was backing up. This is despite the fact that I don't even use Time Machine.
No problem. I put it in target disk mode and using my back up computer deleted a bunch of files and rebooted. Upon reboot I searched for the offending back up of about 14 gigs but couldn't find it. I thought perhaps it might be a hidden file so I used the below script in Automator to See and Hide hidden files:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to quit’;
osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to activate’;
It failed to show the hidden files, though it had worked on my back up computer. I ran it with both "TRUE" and "FALSE" to show and hide. So I tried a variation listed among the comments:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall -9 “Finder”
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
This one ran for many, many minutes and produced no result as well so I interrupted the process. I ran the opposing script and decided to leave it at that.
Now the problems, at least the ones that have popped up so far:
1. iPhone won't finish a sync.
2. iCal - an alarm for an event keeps going off every hour or so regardless of whether I delete it or change it to no alarm.
3. Firefox - the buttons to confirm a choice in any webpage don't produce any action.
4. Photoshop CS4 won't allow me to save over any existing file. I have to rename each save.
I've repaired disk permissions, but that didn't seem to have any effect.
Any advice?
MacBook Pro 2.4 Core Duo
4 GB Ram
OS X 10.5.8
Thanks,
Chad
No problem. I put it in target disk mode and using my back up computer deleted a bunch of files and rebooted. Upon reboot I searched for the offending back up of about 14 gigs but couldn't find it. I thought perhaps it might be a hidden file so I used the below script in Automator to See and Hide hidden files:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to quit’;
osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to activate’;
It failed to show the hidden files, though it had worked on my back up computer. I ran it with both "TRUE" and "FALSE" to show and hide. So I tried a variation listed among the comments:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall -9 “Finder”
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
This one ran for many, many minutes and produced no result as well so I interrupted the process. I ran the opposing script and decided to leave it at that.
Now the problems, at least the ones that have popped up so far:
1. iPhone won't finish a sync.
2. iCal - an alarm for an event keeps going off every hour or so regardless of whether I delete it or change it to no alarm.
3. Firefox - the buttons to confirm a choice in any webpage don't produce any action.
4. Photoshop CS4 won't allow me to save over any existing file. I have to rename each save.
I've repaired disk permissions, but that didn't seem to have any effect.
Any advice?
MacBook Pro 2.4 Core Duo
4 GB Ram
OS X 10.5.8
Thanks,
Chad