On the Mac, I have been getting some ‘Startup Disk is Full’ errors….not the warning that it’s close to being full, but that it’s actually full.
When it gets to this point, you have the choice of shutting down some programs that may be taking up some hard drive space.
I, in my grand intellect, chose to simply delete some files and empty the Trash bin. However, I then noticed some really weird things happening to my computer. Namely:
– Mac Mail would never send/receive messages.
– Transmission lost all of it’s Torrent files that it was seeding
– The greatest loss of all….Plants Vs. Zombies somehow reset itself and I’m back at the beginning! Nooooo.
I realized that this was a major problem after Plants Vs. Zombies went bonkers on me. After some research on the web, the only bit of advice (which I haven’t confirmed) is that when you get the Startup Disk is full error message, you should NOT immediately go and delete/empty the Trash bin (which, in my opinion, is the most logical thing to do). In the end, I did this many times and now I am wondering if this is what corrupted a few files.
I managed to get mail working again by deleting the Gmail IMAP and adding it again. Transmission seems to be downloading the new Torrents. As for Plants Vs. Zombies…I’ll have to start it all over again. Which isn’t a big deal as it is an awesome game!