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Daily Crap 2010-07-22

  1. Last night my main laptop ran out of hard drive space when my Photoshop scratch file grew too large. Strangely, quitting Photoshop didn't clear up any space, so I started deleting stuff. I deleted several files totaling about 50 MB, but for some reason Finder still said I had zero kilobytes free. So I found the largest non-essential file I could and moved it to my Drobo array (which has a terabyte or so of storage… I can't recommend these more) and finally cleared up some space.

    I noticed that several programs had interesting ways of dealing with a lack of disk space:

    • The Dropbox icon became an outline and it said it would not continue synchronizing my directory until I had more space.
    • Terminal popped up a message to tell me that it would clear my scrollback history because it noticed that I was low on disk space. This makes sense with the default setting of unlimited scrollback buffers, but I changed mine to 10,000 lines for performance reasons, so this probably didn't help that much.
    • Photoshop did not tell me to close any images, and didn't delete its scratch file when I closed some large graphics. It did fail to save my changes to my main disk, though it didn't have a problem saving to the Drobo.
    • iTunes had to process my library when I started it back up after logging out and in again, so I presume it suffered some sort of corruption.
    • Several programs were unable to save their "Open Recent" menus, so those were cleared.

    The thing I'm most happy about is that none of my software crashed. In fact, I think my computer did pretty well, considering.

Posted Jul 22, 2010, in the afternoon.

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