[X]Diskwarrior has filledmy harddrive (Mac Forum)

Title: [X]Diskwarrior has filledmy harddrive

mainmanvern - October 22, 2003 11:56 AM (GMT)

hi

i am pretty new to macs... i have been on PC for 6 years so this may be a fairly obvious problem!

i ran diskwarrior 3 on my G3 ibook as a preventive measure to rebuild the desktop (i think that this is the same as defragging on a PC). it was running from a CD that i made with bootCD. everything went fine but when i checked the Hard Drive it has gone from having 17.07GB of free space on a 37.25GB disc to having only 3.22GB free space.

i have searched for any back ups that Diskwarrior may have made in the folders specified by their help files but have come up with nothing. i did a search for large files but the biggest single file on the disk is 655MB

if i select the Hard Drive icon on the desktop and get info it says its used 34.03GB on the disk but if i open it and select all the files and folders inside and get info it says Size 20.18GB which is what it should be.

Are there any hidden files? or anything else i can try?

thanks

Sysop - October 22, 2003 12:04 PM (GMT)

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Rufus - October 24, 2003 12:24 AM (GMT)

I don't have any experience with DiskWarrior, but I know some older versions of Norton and Techtool had an option that if selected (usually by default), would create HUGE backup files on your drive. Everything you put in the trash, it would keep track off and make a copy.
(Any DW experts here?)

You may want to look around in DW and see if there is a similar option that you can turn off.... and then "purge" the backup.

BTW, "rebuilding your desktop" is nothing like defragging. "Rebuilding your desktop" is a simple way of saying that you're going to rebuild the drives directory. The directory is a "table of contents" of what is on your drive and where each file is located. This file is invisible, but very important. It should be maintained with regular "service".

Many people think their drives failed, when the problem is really a badly maintained Desktop file.

mainmanvern - October 25, 2003 01:32 PM (GMT)

hi

i ran OmniDisk on the drive but it just came back with 20.2GB found. Which is what it should be.

So i rebooted from Diskwarrior and ran it again but found no options to delete back up files.

i have just found a Diskwarrior forum so i am going to ask there.

Thanks for your help.

Sysop - October 25, 2003 03:36 PM (GMT)

The Mac Forum team is sorry that they could not help you, but if you have any other questions, please feel free to post them.
Sysops

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