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    Startup Disk full error message, complicated

    There are numerous files being written, all with names similar to "476deede778c8," all roughly the same size, which has been a little different each time (1.5Mb to 3.5Mb), and all going to the same location. I delete them (which takes forever, because there's almost 5Gb of them), and I'm OK...
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    Startup Disk full error message, complicated

    I've been using Activity Monitor to see if there was an obvious culprit. It's happening again this morning, again in the same locations. root/private/var/tmp folder gets files written to it until my computer runs out of hard disk space. The processes showing up on Activity Monitor's Active...
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    Startup Disk full error message, complicated

    I keep getting the "Startup Disk is almost full" error message even though I know I had plenty of available memory. After searching the forums here, I downloaded Cocktail and cleared the caches, logs, and temporary files. I made hidden files visible, and I found in /private/var/tmp tons of files...
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    why spinning pinwheel of death with browsers?

    Thanks. Activity Monitor is one of the unreliable programs since the update, so I'm going to have to reinstall Panther first, then see if it keeps happening. The way life works, that may solve my problem at first. I HATE not knowing how to troubleshoot! I'll get the hang of it eventually...
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    why spinning pinwheel of death with browsers?

    Well, when I first reinstalled the Security Update #02, and then reinstalled the Java 1.4.2, it seemed to help my problem. And the main oddity of browsers are all the scripts and such that don't happen in other software, so it seems like a logical suspect. I did a lot of forum searches already...
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    why spinning pinwheel of death with browsers?

    Sorry. I thought that was so obvious, I didn't mention I tried that already! I also repaired the disk, both from my original Install CD. Then I downloaded MacJanitor and ran all fixes, with no problem. I just keep getting that stupid wheel, and other quirky things. My Mail will stop working...
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    why spinning pinwheel of death with browsers?

    How can I figure out what is causing the SPOD to halt my Internet browsing? I'm guessing that some sort of system activity related to browsing is causing this, but I don't know how to troubleshoot OS10 very well yet. Since I did the 10.3.9 combo update thru software update, all my browsers...
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