Sudden Loss of HD space...

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:

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

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

MACyMouse said:

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:

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

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.

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

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....

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

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Capacity 111.35
Available 24.02
Used 87.33

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????

MACyMouse said:

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????

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Temp files from your movies.

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.