Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There is a free program, MacJanitor, available on www.versiontracker.com which performs Mac housekeeping and clears all old logs. If the problem persists, run Norton Systemworks or some other disk diagnosis program. Larry Z On Aug 15, 2007, at 10:54 AM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote: > > This happened to me a couple of times with earlier versions of OSX. > > Some system logs were not deleting like they were supposed to. > > I used Console to dump them. The problem has not repeated in a couple > of years. > > I don't know what caused it, and I'm sorry, but I don;t remember now > which log was swelling. You can probably find something on how to > best accomplish this on the Apple help site. > > Ric Carter > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/ > > > On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:14 AM, D Khong wrote: > >> Hi LUGgers >> >> For 2 years, the available (free) space on my Mac HDD (originally >> 30BG) has >> been diminishing slowly as expected. Last Monday it was 9.96 GB >> free. Today >> (2 days later) it is 1.23 GB free! Apart from half a dozen pictures >> (2MB >> size each) into i-Photo and a few songs into i-Tunes, there has >> hardly been >> any exciting developments over these 2-3 days. >> >> Apple technical support cannot explain this dramatic change. >> >> I hope to get some help and advice from the LUG community. Thanks in >> advance. >> >> Bests, >> >> Dan K.