[OSX-Users] Re: lion -or something - eating gigs?

Nick Gibbins nmg at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Dec 13 20:57:35 GMT 2011


That is an awesome piece of software (far better than OmniDiskSweeper)!

Thanks,

Nick

On 13 Dec 2011, at 20:08, electronic Max wrote:

> 
> are you using apple mail? that tends to cache mail randomly and create ginormous datbaases
> 
> I recommend trying to use Grand Perspective to find lost disk space - 
> http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/  - 
> 
> I LOVE IT. 
> 
> eMax
> 
> 
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:03 PM, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:
> 
>> what keeps eating space on my drive?
>> 
>> i had cleaned out many many gigs on my drive. last night, i got a notice "less than a gig left" and thot "what??"
>> 
>> restarted, recovered a few gigs (??) but today, after adding nothing, see that it's already 6 gigs less than last night. 
>> 
>> this seems peculiar. 
>> 
>> any thoughts?
>> 
>> with thanks
>> 
>> mc
>> 
> 
> 

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