10.6: A workaround for an apparent low disk space bug
Oct 22, '09 07:30:22AM • Contributed by: mafoo
Oct 22, '09 07:30:22AM • Contributed by: mafoo
There seems to be a bug in 10.6 (including 10.6.1) that I stumbled on when I ran out of disk space.
The OS popped up the usual Free up disc space and/or force quit some applications warning. After freeing up over a gigabyte of space, and clicking the Resume button, nothing happened -- the app(s) remained paused. I deleted another four gigabytes worth of files on the disk, but to no avail. The only option seemed to be to force quit the apps.
The fix is fairly simple:
- Free up some disk space, or close some of the memory hogging apps that aren't paused so you can save your work.
- Open up Activity Monitor and find the paused processe(s). Their entries will be red so they are easy to spot, and they'll say (Not Responding) beside their names.
- Note the process ID (PID) of the offending application(s);
- Open up Terminal.app, and type kill -CONT processid, where processid is the number you noted earlier, then press Return.
[robg adds: I can't confirm the out-of-disk-space-bug, but this hint discusses how to pause and resume apps from Terminal using the kill command.]
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