[azhar]

Hi, I bought a 12" ibook a month ago. I have put some photos (less than 700MB), and word files on it (less than 100MB). I have only downloaded a one or two applications like Nisus Writer and Z-write etc. but none of them take up much space. I thought that everything I put on the system would have taken perhaps 1GB or maybe 2GB tops. Haven't got any music files or movies but despite that, the computer shows that I am down to 14GB (starting from 18.6GB of free space). That's still plenty of space but what's eating up my HD? Thanks in advance.

[Nobody]

If you don't leave your machine running at night, the system housekeeping never gets done and log files, etc, just keep expanding. Get a copy of MacJanitor and run it.

[Nobody]

Or open a terminal session and type:
sudo sh /etc/daily
sudo sh /etc/weekly
sudo sh /etc/monthly

Joe

[Kajo]

I don't know if you were factoring in the actual OS sizes as well. If you have OS X and OS 9 on there it takes up like 1.5 gigs of space.

I have a few apps on my iBook and I completely removed OS 9... I sit at about 2.5 gigs used.

Kajo out-

[macbookuser]

maybe you have a corrupted hard drive.

I ran norton scandisk and found tons of errors on my firewire drive. afterwards, it showed my free disk space at 18.9GB instead of 17.8GB of before.

[azhar]

I'll try MacJanitor but if the HD is corrupted, how do I fix it?

[ArtisticJS]

Alrighty then! I found the mysterious files - old Adobe bridge cache files via OmniDiskSweeper. That alone accounted for close to 5.5Gb of no longer needed data. Also found a couple of missing pencils, 3 paperclips, a very small piece of pizza and a dead mosquito! LOL!

Many thanks to all who took some time to offer solutions - Mac users rock! (•J•)