I did find one source of the disappearing disk space. Apparently Lion creates A partition on your system disk named Recovery HD. As you'd expect from the name, it provides some sort of recovery options for serious OS problems. On my disk, it took 650megs of space, don't know what determines its size.
Probably worth giving up 650megs in exchange for the recovery functions, but would have been nice to know about it. I also got bitten by the re-opening of files "feature" today - in Quicktime. I switched off the option to do it in the System Preferences/General tab but had to reboot for it to take effect. There are apparently ways to switch it off on a program by program basis by using terminal commands to update preference file settings. Would have been nice for Apple to provide that in the application's preference settings. I read that Mountain Lion will be available very soon - I'm very afraid…. And that Apple have decided that you may not run certain applications (Google Maps) on your very own iPhone…. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > OmniDiskSweeper is a really good tool as well. > > Bob > > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > > Also wanted to pass on a nice tool for analysing disk space on Macs - > > GrandPerspective. Shows a visual representation of all the files on a > disk > > as a kind of patchwork quit with each patch relative to the file size. > > Makes it super easy to spot the largest files. And it's free. > > Pete > > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > > > > > > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > > > >> Thanks for all the suggestions folks. Things have settled down as far > as > >> chunks of disk space disappearing and my system seems stable again now, > >> although I'm still at a loss to explain where it all went. > >> > >> Pete > >> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Colin Holgate <co...@verizon.net> > wrote: > >> > >>> Do you own an iPad or iPhone? It may have been doing a wireless backup. > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> use-livecode mailing list > >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >>> subscription preferences: > >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > >>> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
