Try to disable that option as a default and turn it on only on selected folders where you find it useful.

I used 'Show icon preview' as a default option which was reset by the reinstallation. Choosing some folder and opening it in Finder, then going to 'View' -> 'Show View Options' there's an option called 'Show icon preview' and a button 'Use as Defaults'. However, after it was a done I noticed a change in the Finder view options: Finder was no longer generating preview icons for every folder in my disk. I solved this problem by reinstalling Mac OS X without removing any definitions, simply reinstalling the OS. Too bad there isn't some sort of manual to explain all the capabilities of this utility as I feel like I have just scratched the surface of its capabilities. temp file to the HD.īy the way I found Grand Perspective invaluable in trouble shooting this. I believe that other back up programs (Time Capsule perhaps) could do the same thing perhaps, by writing a large. Several calls to Cabornite tech support (who by the way were the most knowledgeable and helpful tech folks I have ever worked with) and we identified what was going on, disabled backing up the 28 GB vmware file and things seem stable for the moment.

In my case, and this may occur with any program that creates temp files, it was Carbonite program backing up the 28 GB vmware Fusion file on my fusion disk partition and writing temp files to the HD ins the process. I found GrandPerspecitve helpful and saw that two hugh. I have a similar vintage Mac Book Pro (2008) running OS 10.7.5, and one day I watched in horror as 24 GB of hard disk free space disappeared in about 10 minutes. I found your thread useful in trouble shooting my own problem in this regard.

Mac hard drive space keeps decreasing