crashplan boot disk space

one of the 4 internal HDDs (presumably the one with my user folder) in my MacPro tower has been extremely chatty for the past week – no wonder after two consecutive power failures and a bunch of itunes match downloading…

finally, I had the time to track the issue down… and I also noticed a suspicious decline in available space on the machine’s small-ish 120GB SSD boot disk with only 7GB available, I remember it being much roomier – 120GB is just about right for OSX, a bunch of applications and some room to breathe, but I think the last time it had like 50GB available… and all my other data is scattered around a bunch of HDDs.

first I thought it may just be a temp/scratch disk issue and I deleted some dormant apps (can you say flex and flash) and performed a deep cache cleaning, which gave me a gig-and-a-half back. only 8.5GB free? no way! sort by size revealed the top spot… something occupied 40+GB in the library

crashplan has the ability to do a remote backup from another machine (my laptop) and automatically occupies a space in the library on the boot disk (library/application support/crashplan). I always wondered where they stash their data… fortunately, crashplan’s software also has a setting (settings>general>inbound…) to place those inbound backups to another place, so I directed that to an external HDD instead, quit crashplan – reboot… and everything is quiet again… for now & back to listening to music while working…

well, I still have to track down RIMAlbumArtdaemon

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