Disk space MacAir swallowed in 10 minutes after the start.

MacAir fast - disappearing of disk space!

My problem:

When I turn on my OS 10.6.8 MacAir is about 8Gb available, but in a few minutes, that reduces to zero. Whenever I restart the same thing happen again..... after that 10 minutes maximum available space is zero!

The cause?

I strongly suspect a simple PDF bit that someone sent me two days; I did not notice that he weighed 6.2 Mb, instead of a few KB.  He came to me a business, I worked with years, so logically nothing intentional here. I opened it and worked as usual.

The solution?

I been using Macs since 1984 and have a vague idea, I solved this kind of problem once before. With Onyx? But today I really don't know.

Help! I need help :-))

Brian.

Download the Internet OmniDiskSweeper and Grand Perspective (both free) and open them. They will show all your files and respective sizes. Transfer to an external HARD disk or remove files, that you no longer want on your MBP.

Don't forget to empty the trash. Then only the space is allocated for the new data.

If you can't always solve this problem, run OmniDiskSweeper as root.  See the instructions at the bottom of this link:

et-disk-inventory-shows-only-190gb-used-vs-48 http://Apple.StackExchange.com/questions/92180/Running-Out-of-Hard-Drive-Space-y

Ciao.

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