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Lion - "Your mac osx startup disk has no more space available...

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  • 14-09-2012 11:40am
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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭


    ...for application memory"

    Guys,

    The attached error has started appearing on my iMac in the last three days. Usually resulting in a restart being required. There's 300+GB left free on the drive.

    Have lion installed a good month or so now & this is the first time it's started happening.

    Any ideas what's going wrong ?


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    Liameter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Liameter


    A problem with Google Chrome filling up the drive with temporary files. Maybe a plugin?


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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭OU812


    No, don't think it's that. Happens when chrome is not open also.

    Thanks for the input though


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    Janedoe10
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭Janedoe10


    OU812 wrote: »
    No, don't think it's that. Happens when chrome is not open also.

    Thanks for the input though

    Check in app activity monitor. (in HD/Utilities) u might find some process is taking more memory than planned . See also https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2725318?start=75&tstart=0

    Found apple article about it too http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342


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    cornbb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    This message means that the machine is running out of swap space, which is something that applications use when they need to use more memory than there is physical memory available. A reboot will clear it up but if its happening frequently its likely that one of your applications is buggy and has a memory leak.

    Keep Activity Monitor open and sort the columns by Rel Mem with the highest value at the top. When the problem happens again, the application or process at the top of the list is your culprit.


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    jakdublin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭jakdublin


    Funny, the same thing has started happening me in the last few days too. It sorts out with a reboot and as I'm planning an upgrade in a month or so I'm not that bothered about it. It seems to happen when I leave the Mac idle for several hours with lots of apps open. I just put it down to an aging machine, but the latest update of ML might have had an impact.


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    Liameter
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 898 ✭✭✭Liameter


    See http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=114432


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    OU812
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    I found Zovo (online backup) was using 500+MBs of memory so I closed it & the problem hasn't happened again. I'm guessing it's not compatible, so now I gotta find a new online backup


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    Janedoe10
    Registered Users Posts: 469 ✭✭Janedoe10


    OU812 wrote: »
    I found Zovo (online backup) was using 500+MBs of memory so I closed it & the problem hasn't happened again. I'm guessing it's not compatible, so now I gotta find a new online backup

    Glad u isolated it to the culprit .
    Find out if that app has an uninstaller or do u have to remove all the files manually . Some of them launch at startup without u noticing .


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    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users Posts: 18,703 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    Janedoe10 wrote: »
    Glad u isolated it to the culprit .
    Find out if that app has an uninstaller or do u have to remove all the files manually . Some of them launch at startup without u noticing .
    AppCleaner is a nice utility which can help root out some hidden files of installed applications.
    And it's free :)
    http://www.freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/


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