1Password is storing 177MB of 1Password backups in Library\Application Support.Ĭlive S., Everett T., David G., Jeff F., Joseph B-P, John B., Tony Z., Amy W., Andrew The Computer Guy, Gary R., David H., Fernando F., Daniel H., Lyndon N., Michael E., Andrew S., Royce T., Leigh F., James H.OmniDiskSweeper is a free utility from the superb OMNI group.00:47:13 This week’s MGG Premium Subscribers.All my iPod and iOS backups come to 2.1 GB.That's a lot, but not bad for five iPhones and a few iPods (who uses iPods any more?) ITunes Library has swollen to 70GB, mostly due to movies.Pictures (Aperture, iPhoto) runs to 80 GB.I had 500MB of tunes in Music\Amazon MP3 that were also in iTunes.Not sure how that happened, but obviously I don't need both.
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I had FileMaker Pro 8 (!) installed once in my Applications folder and once in shared applications.Volumes, a "hidden" root unix directory, had 247GB in it.I freed up a GB or so in minor cleanup, but then I had to decide what to do with Volumes. I'm used to Volumes holding Unix aliases, not folders.
Volumes held two folders named after my Time Capsule backups. They were both created within one day of one another in Jan 2011. The smaller one is a copy of a portion of my drive, the bigger one was the entire drive. Google couldn't explain these findings, but I found this one reference that sounded interesting. Īnother tip is to look in your /Volumes directory. It seemed to be a mirror of what had been on a firewire drive that had been unplugged before ejecting. Some program had tried to write to '/Volumes/FireWire/data/'. However since the firewire drive had been removed suddenly, it just created a directory called FireWire/data and wrote it there.Įxcept I didn't find 100s of MBs, I found 100s of GBs. I am pretty sure Time Machine put them there, and I wonder if it had to do with Time Capsule being offline.Īfter due consideration I deleted these 600,000+ files. I do, after all, have redundant offsite backups in addition to Time Machine.
You can view it in Terminal, but it's easiest to use the Finder's "Go to Folder" feature and just enter "Volumes".
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Update 6/25/11: Through an Apple Support Group discussions I learned that this isn't terribly rare, and that it's particularly seen with disk cloning software - probably because of the volume of data they manage. It smells like a deep OS bug - the OS loses the connection to the "virtual" target in /Volumes and starts writing to the local disk. I am surprised I didn't find more about this on Google, perhaps this post will help. Through the discussion thread I learned of these posts.
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