[moneydance] data file corruption

[Gordon Alley]

The rule-of-thumb I've heard for OS X is to try to keep at least 10%
free, as a general rule. I've probably been as low as 6-7% free with
no apparent ill effects.

After my problem, I ran Applejack to check the hard disk (didn't find
any problems), and also had it clear my system and user caches and
virtual memory files. That brought me up to about 8.5 GB free. I hope
it'll last awhile. :-)

I'm pretty comfortable with my free space at the moment. But thanks
for the suggestion.

-Gordon

On 4/25/07, Doug B <md at bigshell.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 April 2007 00:49, Gordon Alley wrote:
> > I just wanted to relate this incident to the list in case it's not
> > just me.
> >
> > I'm using Moneydance 2007 build 566 on an iMac G4 800 with 1GB RAM
> > and 6.5 GB of free space on my 60 GB internal drive.
> >
>
> This may not mean anything, but it looks like your disk is almost 90%
> full.  I don't know anything about macs and how they work, but I've
> seen problems occur when a disk gets this full.  Some programs use a
> lot of temp files.  Get several apps going at one time and you can eat
> a lot of disk space with temps.  Could be the disk was near full when
> it tried to autosave causing a corrupt file.  A full disk can cause a
> program or even the os to quit responding or behave oddly.  Just a
> thought.

-- 
Gordon B. Alley
http://www.gordonalley.com