The Case Of The Disappearing Hard Drive
Written on Apr 20th, 2008
Ever since I upgraded to Leopard a few months ago, I’ve been plagued with disk space issues on my Macbook Pro. Normally, when shooting photographs, you use your hard drive as permanent storage and your compact flash cards as temporary storage. I had so little space on my hard drive during the Junos though that I was forced to reverse the two, and was literally using extra CF cards to make up the hard drive difference. Today I sat down to see if I could figure out where it all went. The key application I used was Disk Inventory X, a great little tool that graphically displays where all your space is being used. In my case, it ended up being the following: 20GB was stuck in a Previous Systems folder from when I upgraded to Leopard 10GB was being used by Apple mail, since it was storing local copies […]
