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<blockquote data-quote="Fassweet" data-source="post: 930540" data-attributes="member: 128689"><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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:</p><p></p><p>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE</p><p>osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to quit’;</p><p>osascript -e ‘tell application “Finder” to activate’;</p><p></p><p>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:</p><p></p><p>defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE</p><p>killall -9 “Finder”</p><p>/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Now the problems, at least the ones that have popped up so far:</p><p>1. iPhone won't finish a sync.</p><p>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.</p><p>3. Firefox - the buttons to confirm a choice in any webpage don't produce any action.</p><p>4. Photoshop CS4 won't allow me to save over any existing file. I have to rename each save.</p><p></p><p>I've repaired disk permissions, but that didn't seem to have any effect. </p><p></p><p>Any advice?</p><p></p><p>MacBook Pro 2.4 Core Duo</p><p>4 GB Ram</p><p>OS X 10.5.8</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Chad</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fassweet, post: 930540, member: 128689"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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