Riddle: When isn't free space free?
So tonight I discovered my hard drive was slowly being choked by some mysterious process writing gigs and gigs to it. So I moved 75GB of files to an external drive only to come back a few hours later and discover my free space was back down to 23 GB. Where did 50 GB of files come from in just a few hours!? Idea #1 Rogue process downloading large files...*cough*iTunes*cough* I had NetUse Traffic Monitor running and it clearly showed that there was definitely not 50 GB of downloads in that time period. Idea #2 Rogue process writing lots of log files In my investigation of what to move to the external drive I used GrandPerspective to get a visualization and catalog of what was on my drive. Thankfully I hadn't closed that window so I could rescan and compare what had changed. Here's the next head scratcher, it showed only a 4 GB total difference in used space between the two scans. Idea #3 It was something on my wife's side which GrandPerspective couldn't see sin...