Michael Tsai
Recurring problem since 10.11: in the morning, I'm down to 1.5 GB of free disk space. Over 100 GB not accounted for by OmniDiskSweeper.
Not sure where the space is being used. Quitting apps doesn’t help, but it comes back after I restart.
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Looks like the culprit is Spotlight. 2592 files in /.Spotlight-V100/Store-V2/6A539762-515B-41E7-80DC-AF1054850499/Cache/ up to 99 MB each.
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Just got the "Startup Disk Is Full" message, so back in a few after I restart.
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The command I ended up using was "sudo du -mrd8 /.Spotlight-V100/|sort -n". After restart, still 60 GB of cache files, one that's 3.6 GB.
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Based on the contents of the txt files in the Spotlight cache, I think they were left by /System/Library/Spotlight/PDF.mdimporter
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Tentative solution: exclude the folder with most of my PDFs from Spotlight and then reset it (sudo mdutil -E /).
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@mjtsai Ugh, this kind of bug sucks. FWIW I just confirmed my whole .Spotlight-V100 "only" takes 6GB. (The volume that has my home folder). - View other replies
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@danielpunkass@mjtsai I frequently have mds/worked-related processes hang while trying to index and prevent volume eject or eat memory. - View other replies
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@danielpunkass@mjtsai After my El Cap upgrade, Spotlight couldn't complete at all due to repeated crashes while trying to index. - Show more
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@mjtsai Virtual memory perhaps? -
@mcelhearn Virtual memory swap is only about 3 GB and shows up in OmniDiskSweeper. -
@mjtsai Weird that all that space is used. I assume you don't see it in visible folders; maybe what@mattgemmell said, TM backups?
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@mjtsai Failed software update downloads, or local Time Machine backups on a laptop not connected to its TM destination? -
@mattgemmell If it’s software update downloads, I can’t find where they’re going. Connected to TM destination and .MobileBackups is tiny.
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@mjtsai I saw that during the El Cap betas; thought it had been fixed.
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