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I've got the problem of OSX filling up gigabytes of space with no rhyme or reason. One minute I'll have 10gb fee then I'll have 900mb free. Then it'll free up
by uptown 12y ago
I've got the problem of OSX filling up gigabytes of space with no rhyme or reason. One minute I'll have 10gb fee then I'll have 900mb free. Then it'll free up again.
- pshon 12y agoKind of sounds like a time machine issue.
- blparker 12y agoHDD space or RAM?
- carlob 12y agoI want to hope it's RAM OP is referring to. But if it's disk, that is way way too low of a margin. You should keep at least 10% of your disk empty especially if it's an SSD.
- uptown 12y agoHDD space. Just swapped out my DVD drive and added a 1tb drive, so I guess I'll be okay if I can move things over to the secondary drive.
- AYBABTME 12y agoYou're running out of memory and OS X is swapping to disk.
- lucaspiller 12y agoI'm having this - OP check the Memory Pressure section in Activity Monitor. The annoying thing is all I've got running are Spotify, Skype, Chrome (with a couple of tabs) and iTerm. I guess 4GB isn't enough anymore...
- stevekinney 12y agoI've got 16GB and the same thing happens to me. It will expand to take up all the RAM and disk space available.
- emgee3 12y agoI had a similar issue with Creative Cloud spamming the log files with a few TB of garbage. Worth a quick check at least.
- uptown 12y agoI'll give it a look. I do have CC installed.
- slantyyz 12y agoLocal Time Machine snapshot perhaps? https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204015
- uptown 12y agoCould be it. I do use TimeMachine, but only plug-in occasionally with this laptop.