I also was able to see that we had multiple gigs taken up by DVD movies we own but I’d converted/ripped to MP4 using Handbrake. (Some were named “sleepimage.”) Anyway, I was able to identify and delete those files tonight. I think this is what creates these LARGE swap files. Using Disk Inventory X tonight, I learned my wife’s Macbook had several large (more than 1 GB) “swap files” saved on it which had apparently been created when someone in our family used the computer until the battery was out of juice. The amazing and always-knowledgable Patsy Lanclos told me at least a year ago about the free application Disk Inventory X, which permits users to visually explore the contents of a hard drive running or attached to a computer running the Macintosh OS X operating system. Use System Preferences to restore your settings.My wife’s MacBook has mysteriously almost run out of free hard drive space, and I wasn’t sure why. Resetting PRAM may change some system settings and preferences.
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