Have you tried running this program? http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx I use it a couple of times each month and it cleans up those files. On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2011-07-29, at 4:08 PM, Doug Bale wrote: > > My iBook has a nominally 60GB hard …. There should be 22.87 GB free. > > > On 29-Jul-11, at 4:15 PM, rogers doug wrote: > > Google search for the expanding log file fix. It could be the not > uncommon, but obscure accumulating error message in the log file, which is > invisible. > > > The Library folder definitely seems to be where at least part of the > problem lies. I went into Libary>Logs>Directory Service and found an > apparently empty folder called Local. I trashed it, emptied the trash and > was told it was deleting over 4,100 files. Then I made a new folder, called > it Local and put it back where the other one was. We'll see if that helps. > I also cleared out a few hundred caches, which seemed to do no good at all, > but maybe there are still others I can deep-six. > >