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#1 2006-07-24 8:20 pm
- lagamorph
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Disk Full Error
While trying to capture video from a mini DV camera I get an error stating that my start-up disk is almost full and that I should delete some files. However, I have 178 GBs free on my start-up disk and have used less than 12 GBs on it. I have 1.25 GBS of RAM installed.
I have run Disk Warrior, Disk Utilities, and Cocktail Pilot. I checked the Activity Monitor and have not found an application hogging all the space or running in the background.
I have tried to capture the video with iMovie, Premiere, and Avid to no avail. However, my husband's Windows computer will capture from the video camera with no problem at all. I have, in the past, captured many videos from this same camera, same software, hardware, etc.
Suggestions and advice will be greatly appreciated. I really don't want to have to use my husband's "Pinnacle" software on his machine to capture this video.
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#2 2006-07-24 8:23 pm
- Old Time Hockey
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Re: Disk Full Error
OmniDiskSweeper to search for large files ? Reboot a couple of times ? Another user account ?
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#3 2006-07-24 8:58 pm
- Cobalt60
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Re: Disk Full Error
Did you wipe the disk recently? I use Shredit. It creates a huge file the size of the HD. If it is interrupted that file just stays there and fills the whole HD.
I'm not a doctor but I'll take a look!
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#4 2006-07-24 9:33 pm
- lagamorph
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Re: Disk Full Error
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep OmniDiskSweeper in mind. I actually became aware of this problem a few weeks ago, but shelved it. So, the computer's been rebooted numerous times since then. I'm the only user account on it. Good suggestions, though.
No, I haven't wiped the disk and I'm hoping I'm not going to have to re-install the OS, either. Again, it's still a good suggestion.
The Info window claims that I have 178 GBs free space, but the video softwares aren't recognizing the free space! So, what could "hide" the free space from the software?
Dang!
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#5 2006-07-24 10:43 pm
- Cobalt60
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Re: Disk Full Error
I wasn't suggesting you wipe the HD if that is how you interpreted my post. How about reinstalling the video software?
Omnidisksweeper is your friend. :-)
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#6 2006-07-24 10:53 pm
- macnuke
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Re: Disk Full Error
before re-installing anything, perhaps a simple trashing of your plist files for the app you want to use to import with.
relaunch the app and see if that will let you import your vid.
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#7 2006-07-24 11:27 pm
- kevmo
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Re: Disk Full Error
Try restarting and see if it helps. My MacBook Pro does the same thing and a restart always seems to clear up the "start-up disc full" error. Good Luck!
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#8 2006-07-24 11:32 pm
- Old Time Hockey
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Re: Disk Full Error
kevmo wrote:
Try restarting and see if it helps. My MacBook Pro does the same thing and a restart always seems to clear up the "start-up disc full" error. Good Luck!
He already tried that.
How about deleting some preference plist files ? ( no clue on which ones ) 
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#9 2006-07-24 11:35 pm
- lagamorph
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Re: Disk Full Error
Oh, I understood that you weren't suggesting that I wipe the hard drive. You explained it quite well.
I did trash the plist file, something I would have NEVER thought of. So, I did that and tried capturing again. Out of about 2 minutes of video, it only captured 10 seconds and those seconds weren't contiguous. It looked almost like stop-motion and I got a disk full error again!
I really hate this. I love making videos and if this doesn't stop I'm going to have to use "Pinnacle" on my husband's Windose machine. AAAAAACK!
Remember, I have 3 video editing softwares and all 3 are acting like this! So, I don't think re-installing the software will solve the problem.
Could my video card be blown? I have a Power Mac G4 Sawtooth. Do I have a video card? Maybe the graphics card is blown? Would that screw up video capture? I think this is a hardware problem, perhaps, more than a software problem, maybe.
Help?
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#10 2006-07-25 10:29 am
- Cobalt60
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Re: Disk Full Error
I'm at a loss.
I'm not a doctor but I'll take a look!
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#11 2006-07-25 10:50 am
- Macinjosh
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Re: Disk Full Error
This is just a guess but sounds to me as though these three programs were configured at one point to use a partition or a hard drive that might in fact be full now (for a scratch disk etc...) have you run through the prefs to check for that?
Are there recent updates that you've done in the software or hardware field?
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