Disk space problems on internal disk on Mac running Isadora
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Greetings!
I'm running Isadora 3 on a Macbook Pro running Catalina.
I'm having problems with the disk space on my internal disk. There should be like 380 GB additional disk space, in addition to the 50 that the system says is there. The 380 GB is showing up in Mac storage in a category "Other," which isn't not selectable. I'm working with Apple Support to help me figure out what is happening, and they aren't finding anything.
By any chance is there anything that Isadora does with temporary files or anything else that could perhaps leave anything on the disk that wouldn't necessarily show up in the normal way? Maybe if the system crashes or something that might leave something out there?
I'm not saying that Isadora is the cause. I just thought I would check to see if anything like this has come up for anybody, and if so, how you dealt with it. I'm nearing a place of having to reinstall the OS, but I thought I would check just in case. Apple folks have never seen anything like this, and I actually have the same problem on another Mac running Big Sur and Isadora. Just wondering if anything like this sounds familiar to anyone.
Thanks for any insights.Thanks much to you all.
Best,
Craig
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The only way I can think of that Isadora could possibly take up 380GB on your computer is if you used it to create tons and tons of files. I'd imagine this would be practically impossible with the Data Array making text files or with the Capture Stage to Picture actor making png/jpg files, but if you used the computer for one or more VERY long-term art installations that were using the Capture Camera to Movie actor, the Capture Stage to Movie actor, or where you somehow manually chose Output > Start Recording Stage repeatedly, Isadora would create video files (because you told it to do so). In this way, you could theoretically create many, many video files, but I'd be extremely confused as to how you created 380GB of temporary video files without knowing about it. The primary reason I'd expect you to know about it is that, since it's your computer, I'd assume that you'd have been the one to program the Isadora patch to create video files. The second reason I'd assume you'd know about so many video files being created is that Isadora asks you if you want to delete any temporary media created this way when you try to quit, so all the times Isadora was closed after creating temporary media files would require you to have selected the option not to delete the files. Either that or you somehow repeatedly dodged that dialog, (and therefore left the files on the hard drive), by doing some combination of crashing Isadora instead of closing it, force-quitting Isadora with Terminal or Activity Monitor, and/or cutting the power to the computer while Isadora was running. The odds of this happening so many times over such a long period of time in order to create 380GB of files without you noticing would, I think, be incredibly low. However, if you want to check your computer for temp video files created by Isadora then, assuming you didn't make them have custom names, their default names would all start with "IsadoraTemp" so you could search your computer for that.
All that being said, "IsadoraTemp" video files should not show up under the "Other" category, I'd expect these to all show up under the "Documents" category (which is what they do for me).
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Could you explain more detailed, where you see the category 'Other' and what the other categories are?
Maybe send an screenshot of the disk utility, showing the hard drive setup.
