Disappearing Hard Drive Space
In an attempt to keep my mac nice and happy, I ran a scan with Norton Antivirus 2003. It took a while, and when it was done, I realized that all my available hard drive space had disappeared, 23gb worth. I searched and searched through my files and its just gone. I ran disk utility and everything else I could find, a few corrupted files, but the problem still persists. Now, I'm booted to a Diskwarrior 3 CD and in the process of rebuilding my directory. Diskwarrior tells me 35% of my directory was out of order. But its been running for over 9 hours.
Will Diskwarrior even fix my problem? Is it something completely different? And if Diskwarrior can fix it, is it supposed to take this long, or has it frozen? How do I tell? Someone please help, cause I'm starting to panic...just a little.
Will Diskwarrior even fix my problem? Is it something completely different? And if Diskwarrior can fix it, is it supposed to take this long, or has it frozen? How do I tell? Someone please help, cause I'm starting to panic...just a little.
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Did you attempt a restart before you went to diskwarrior. OSX like to store hidden files which can get quite large, Typically a restart will clean out the data and give you back the space. Another option is to use OmniDiskSweeper to see where the space has gone.
Most people would also agree that Norton is arse.
Hope all goes well
Originally posted by jwri004
Diskwarrior, by most accounts, always takes a long time to work. Important thing is to let it FINISH. I have heard of cases where it has taken a couple of days.
Really?
The only time I've seen DW take a long time is when it was working on a big hard drive - in my case it was a 160GB drive and it took 15 minutes.
9 hours doesn't sound right.
Nothing in Alsoft's Support forum either.
recce, try using OmniDiskSweeper to see exactly what's taking up space on your hard drive.
See if you have the same ( On the disc where you have your OS installed look in...\\library\\logs\\console ) I deleted mine with no problems and regained the space. It builds up from time to time and I just get rid of it again.
Good Luck.
Their disk tools are worthless, and now it seems that their anti-virus is designed to do more damage than the viruses themselves.
Nice.
Bottom line: Stay away from Norton anything.
Thanks to everyone who responded. I appreciate it.