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Startup disk full message when it shouldnt be full
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<blockquote data-quote="Collin Bl" data-source="post: 995641" data-attributes="member: 95994"><p>Check this out - it was sent to me so do you own checking;</p><p></p><p>I had to use this post in a forum to find where all my missing HDD space went after Jxxxx pulled the plug.</p><p>Looks like SuperDuper had started copying my files to a temporary link /Volumes/Media_BUOS on its own internal HDD. So using terminal with the HDD removed I had to delete the link and all files in it. (sudo rm -rf ...)</p><p></p><p>Both WhatSize and Disk Inventory X suffer from the same fatal flaw: they won't find any files that your user doesn't have permission to see. And thus the total found will always be less than what's really on the disk. In my case, a quick test of Disk Inventory X found that it completely missed about 10 GB of files.</p><p></p><p>The only way to fix this is to run it directly as the super user from Terminal:</p><p>Code:</p><p>sudo /Volumes/HDDxx/Applications/Disk\ Inventory\ X.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk\ Inventory\ X</p><p>(all one line)</p><p></p><p>Only then will you get an accurate breakdown of disk usage. Of course, either of these apps could fix the problem by using Apple's provided APIs for obtaining super user access by asking for an administrator password. Until then, many unsuspecting users will be getting false data...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Collin Bl, post: 995641, member: 95994"] Check this out - it was sent to me so do you own checking; I had to use this post in a forum to find where all my missing HDD space went after Jxxxx pulled the plug. Looks like SuperDuper had started copying my files to a temporary link /Volumes/Media_BUOS on its own internal HDD. So using terminal with the HDD removed I had to delete the link and all files in it. (sudo rm -rf ...) Both WhatSize and Disk Inventory X suffer from the same fatal flaw: they won't find any files that your user doesn't have permission to see. And thus the total found will always be less than what's really on the disk. In my case, a quick test of Disk Inventory X found that it completely missed about 10 GB of files. The only way to fix this is to run it directly as the super user from Terminal: Code: sudo /Volumes/HDDxx/Applications/Disk\ Inventory\ X.app/Contents/MacOS/Disk\ Inventory\ X (all one line) Only then will you get an accurate breakdown of disk usage. Of course, either of these apps could fix the problem by using Apple's provided APIs for obtaining super user access by asking for an administrator password. Until then, many unsuspecting users will be getting false data... [/QUOTE]
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