Mac Pro :: Start Up Disc Just Filled Itself
Dec 8, 2014
2104 Mac Pro 10.9.5 250gb hd 32gb ramÂ
All of a sudden this morning my Mac Pro hard drive filled up with data...completely. I had a Finder window open and watched as the available space went form 90gb+ to ZERO. About this Mac shows over 100gb of "Other" data and ran Space Gremlin and it shows 207gb of "Restricted" data.
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Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Work Desktop
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Model Name:MacBook Pro
Processor Name:Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed:2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors:1
Total Number Of Cores:2
L2 Cache:3 MB
Memory:4 GB
Bus Speed:1.07 GHz
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