Strange and a tad scarry bug/trojan/mishap

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glapher

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Had to reinstall my os x on my air via the pen drive (went very smoothly, was very impressed btw) after a weird thing happened, see if anyone can shed some light.

All of a sudden with no apparent intervention or tweaking by me, my hd starts showing low space, I keep deleting and deleting (and getting system force shutdown prompts) and at one point I realise that as soon as I start up os x, and do a get info on the hd it starts incrementally decreasing the stated available space...quite strange, and I did quite a few restarts, it's not as if it might have been some background process....

I can post the console logs too.
 
Download either Onyx or Yasu and run all the cleaning routines. It sounds as if a cache is getting out of control.

Let the cleaning program reboot your Mac (after you run all the cleaning routines). Then upon that first reboot immediately manually reboot again to completely rebuild your startup/shutdown system cache.

Lastley download the free OmniDiskSweeper to see what is taking up your hard drive space.
 
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