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My Memory Fix
Authored by: maroossa on Aug 26, '09 06:01:38PM
Ok, so I have a PowerBook G4 that was built sometime in July 2004. I upgraded to 10.5 when it first came out and I had a few issues. I wasn't able to update for probably several months and it was slow. Also, my battery wasn't holding its charge as long as it used to. eventually it just stopped charging it and I went to a 'wired' laptop. I ended up taking a break from school, etc. and I wasn't using it that much. Then beginning of this year I moved got married etc. and started using my computer more often. Took it to an Apple Store and they confirmed that the battery was now bad and I replaced it.

Anyway, sometime in there I started noticing that I was running out of space. I did NOT have Time Machine, Last.fm or things like that. I did however have World of Warcraft's Lich King installed. (yes WoW kindly informed me on install that it was not happy with my system.) It would crash get really slow etc. I started deleting everything that I could get away with, including WoW. I bought a 250GB external harddrive and moved my Music, Pictures and turn ON Time Machine.

Everything went well for awhile, I saw that my space was fluctuating a bit but I figured that it was normal. Then today I got that wonderful message that told me I was basically out of space. I searched Apple Support, yet again, and was finally rewarded with a hit!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2114121&start=0&tstart=0

So following the advice I downloaded OmniDiskSweeper and once it had finished it reported that in my logs a folder called 'asl' was listed at being 40.10GB. Well, I deleted that, it automatically recreated with what it needed, and I have tons of space.

Now, why this is happening I really don't have any idea. I didn't know to check my syslogd activity before I did anything. I am going to watch it from now on. Perhaps it is just a bad reaction to Leopard? Hopefully you more technically inclined people can make something useful of this. I hope this is not totally off topic.

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