Begin a download and Transmission reserves the memory space for the file that will be downloaded. But stop that download, toss the data you have, and the reservation may still remain. The file doesn’t show up on the directory list, but the hard drive space has still vanished. Keep running Transmission for a while, and you watch your hard drive space slowly vanish, even though you haven’t added anything to it.
And nothing seems to fix it. Techtool says things are fine. Disk Warrior says, “No problem.” But soon, the operating system is saying there’s no room to do anything.
And strangely, when SuperDuper! Is run to back up the disk for reformat and reload, the act of beginning that transfer cures the problem and the disk space is back.
I don’t know if this is a Leopard problem or yours, but it does happen, and needs to be fixed.
Imac - 2 ghz Intel duo, .5 gig ram, 10.5, latest build. Transmission 10.5 (87886)
The walls are closing in
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ThreeDee912
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Re: The walls are closing in
Be sure you are completely erasing the file. When you use the "remove data file" function in Transmission, it moves the files into the Trash. Did you make sure to empty the trash after you removed the files from T?
Re: The walls are closing in
I don't know if it is related but I seem to have a lot of problems with the Finder not updating files/folder sizes in 10.5.6. There was torrent that was 4 GB but I selectively chose to download about 400 MB of the files. Later chose to download the remaining 3.6 GB. This was days ago and the Finder still lists the folder as being a total of 400 MB even though there are 4 GB of files in the folder! I really don't know if it is the Mac OS or Transmission though.
Re: The walls are closing in
I've been doing that lately, taking only part of a download, and that may be what triggers the problem. I've also canceled several downloads lately and allowed Transmission to delete the data for me, which might be a factor.timta2 wrote:I don't know if it is related but I seem to have a lot of problems with the Finder not updating files/folder sizes in 10.5.6. There was torrent that was 4 GB but I selectively chose to download about 400 MB of the files. Later chose to download the remaining 3.6 GB. This was days ago and the Finder still lists the folder as being a total of 400 MB even though there are 4 GB of files in the folder! I really don't know if it is the Mac OS or Transmission though.
In any case, it's been suggested I use Onyx to clean out the various swap files and such. I haven't tried it since SuperDuper! solved the problem (at the cost of dumping everything I had on that external HD). You might try it on your machine, though. It's a handy utility, and allows you to add things like up and down arrows at both ends of the elevator bars.