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#1
July 28th, 2007, 10:26 AM
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| "startup disk full" half of hard drive space used too fast Could it be a var/spool problem? I have a powerbook g4, 60 GB. OSX 10.3.9 I have about 15GB in music and usually had about 30GB of free space on the HD when i looked in finder. (I dont remember when the last time i looked, but it was within a few months). New applications that I am using are SKYPE, FIREFOX, & LIMEWIRE (I have since deleted limewire). While using FireFox today, I got the message about "Startup disk full." I started to look thorough my folders to see what was going on and where the large files were. I deleted all of my Pics to free up 2GB so that I would not crash. I could not find any abnormally large files or folders and I have not downloaded anything large, but the space is now taken. I read about the var/spool not clearing a few places and thought "this sounds like me" so i went to check the size of that folder and the system has been "calculating size" for a while now. I think this may be whats wrong. (I have a feeling it is about 28 GB, only becuase thats what is missing) Quetion is, is there a way to trouble shoot and clear this spool and to ffix it so that it self clears in the future? Thanx in advance.  |
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#2
July 28th, 2007, 11:33 AM
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| Download the 10.3 version of Yasu and run those maintenance routines. This might help.
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#3
July 28th, 2007, 11:46 AM
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| if you download and run "WhatSize" you'll be able to track down the culprits. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13006 jb.
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#4
July 28th, 2007, 12:27 PM
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| i think i got it. while the forum here was downgrading, i read about 20 articles and found out how to search for the large files and folders using that my problem was the console log. apparently i was having a problem with a tiff file loading in firefox and it get posting errors to the log. I ended up with one log with 18.5 GB and one with 5.5 GB. The logs were so big I could not even load them in the console window, so i deleted them and firefox. Thanx anyone who read and thought about this. -MOC |
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#5
July 28th, 2007, 01:15 PM
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| "while the forum here was downgrading"?
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July 28th, 2007, 01:17 PM
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