![]() ![]() This protects you in case things go wrong. Make sure that you BACK UP THE DRIVE BEFORE you attempt to resize the partitions. If it DOESN'T work, there are other alternatives that WILL "get the job done" for you. You can try using Disk Utility to "shrink" the size of the music partition. REDUCE the size of the music production partition.ĭo this, and I predict that things will go MUCH better. INCREASE the size of the "boot partition" from 80gb to, say, 200gb (or even more). IF you use Time Machine, some of that space could be consumed by "local backups", as well. Sounds to me like you have VM swap files and other "temporary" (but invisible) files that are "eating up" the little bit of free space you have left. I lost all my Google Chrome tabs and rebooted. Eventually it landed at only 13mb available and froze. I could literally see it going down before my eyes. Then out of nowhere my hard drive space started vanishing. I did some googling and noticed that seems to get asked for a lot Here's a pic of my system memory in Activity Monitor. So if you guys could please ask me the right questions that can lead to figuring this out then i would be so very grateful!! But i have no idea how to figure this out. I don't necessarily need to solve it, i just need to know WHY, so that i can stop worrying. I'm not sure if i was connected to it at any point but i'm not sure how to check. Where did my HD space go?įor what it's worth, i'm currently signed out of iCloud. What's going on? This never used to happen. I call it a night and then turn the computer on this morning and now it's only 0.87gb. I reboot again and then it's at only 1gb avail. This time when i rebooted, my HD space only went back up to 1.6gb. I figured it was because of Photoshop and then closed it and restarted. Then last night it happened again (down to 13mb avail) while using Photoshop. ![]() I have an 80gb partition on my mac that i use regularly (my other 920gb partition is 10.6.8 for music production, rarely use) and the HD space has been fluctuating which worries me. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.6 on an iMac 27-inch mid-2011. ![]()
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