OS X V10.7 Lion :: Temporary File Size - 200GB Available To 0 Bytes In 30 Minutes Or Less
May 25, 2012
I am not a newbie to computers so I am aware that temporary files (swap files) are par for the course. I also realize that when dealing with larger files (video, for example) swap files tend to grow larger. But I can't reconcile going from over 200 gb of available space to showing literally 0 bytes available in less than a half an hour. Granted, I am exporting a video from iMovie (about 2 hours) but to loose over 200 gb of available hard drive space to a swap file doesn't seem right. Is this really my swap file or is something else possibily going on here?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Aug 29, 2014
I have a 1TB drive in my Mac Pro running Mavericks 10.9.4 and I went to disk utility to erase some free space on the drive. However I keep getting the error message: Secure Erase Free Space failed Secure erase Free Space failed with the error: Couldn't create temporary file.Â
I Googled the error message and couldn't find anything. The error message is heaps unuseful, it doesn't tell me why it couldn't create a temporary file or what I can do to fix it.
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Mac Pro (Early 2008), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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May 18, 2012
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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May 14, 2012
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Mar 20, 2012
I have scanned a document on my Canon Printer.The size is very large about 14 Megabytes.I do not know how to reduce the size so that I can send it via Mail. I have searched HELP but have not as yet found an answer. One suggestion was that in my Mail window there is an option to reduce the size of the attachment but I see no such option in my email.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.4.6)
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Apr 19, 2012
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Mac mini (Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 12, 2012
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 17, 2012
I have some scanned PDF's files with big size (10Mb - 15Mb). The original document doesn't exist. How can I change these existing PDF files to a smaller size?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 23, 2012
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
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Jul 1, 2014
i have made 30 minutes clip and it is made of 13gb size.
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Aug 21, 2014
When I send a PDF to a windows user, the PDF shrinks. I'm not talking about file size, but when they open the document, it's 50-75% of the original size and hard to read.Â
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scanned using: HP Laserjet pro 300 all in one
OS 10.9.4
new 2014 MBP.
email sent via Mac Mail and my iCloud.com account.Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
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May 2, 2012
I have created an automator workflow to remove and recreate my temporary directory in my home folder.Â
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Jan 19, 2009
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Is this a size limitation, and will i need to reformat the drive to fix it, or is there something else I'm missing?
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Apr 5, 2012
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Aug 27, 2014
I have a Mac Air running Mavericks on a HFS partition and Windows 7 on a BOOTCAMP NTFS partition. I have some files that I want to read/write from/to both systems. Since OS X can't write NTFS and Windows can't write HFS either, and I don't want to use any 3rd-party tools/drivers, in OS X, I copy those files from NTFS to its HFS partition, make changes, then switch to Windows and sync them back to NTFS.Â
The problem is, after I copied a file from NTFS to HFS in OS X, it seemed ok. But when I switched to Windows, the very copied file in HFS partition had its size changed (bigger) although I didn't make any changes to it in OS X yet. This happens to almost every file I copied, text and binary. For those text files, I tried to open it with EditPlus in Windows and EditPlus reports the correct size on the status bar.Â
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Sep 2, 2014
I use MS Office 2011 (latest install 14.0.1) in my iMac OS X version 10.9.4.I store my documents in my iPod formatted with MS-Dos Fat32 so I can use it both in Windows and Mac.A few times now, I came upon excel and word files with Zero bytes losing a bunch of working hours.The first time it happen after I saved and close an excel document. A couple of day after when I tried to open the document, I realized it was empty. I tied a couple of Office rescue softwares but nothing worked because the file was simply empty!
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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Apr 15, 2012
I have been using my G4 MDD - 1.gHz DP with 4 160 GB HD. I recently upgraded one of my HD to a 200 GB. but my G4 only gives me 186 GB to use. I know when formatting you usually loose a couple of MB but 186 GB from 200 GB?
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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), G4 MDD, 1 gHz DP. 1.25 DDRAM
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May 1, 2012
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Sep 12, 2014
I'm not doing any backup of my macbook pro, so why does it show such a substantial amount of space taken with backup?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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Apr 16, 2012
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac
OS X (10.5)
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