Hi all,
I’ve run into something that could potentially be a bug, something already corrected, or caused by something else entirely, but is definitely related to Mac OS X file versioning.
Freeing up hard drive space, there was a discrepancy between the stats reported by Disk Utility, Finder and by apps like Disk Inventory X and OmniDiskSweeper. This amounted to a difference of hundreds of gigabytes, that were apparently missing. Running Omni from the root, however, revealed a folder called “.DocumentRevisions-V100” that was 200 gigabytes and invisible to other methods, that is, when you look at hidden folder in finder, it reads as being empty and locked.
There doesn’t seem to be an easy way to check the source of the files in the folder, but I suspect that they are from Rhino, as all the other software I use with versions does not approach this scale of file size [pages, numbers, etc. [although maybe a crazy quicktime thing?]]. This is after about a year of using Mac Rhino on this computer, with files of sometimes several gigabytes, so it could add up…
This could be specific to strange things such as working with very large imported meshes and texture files, but in any case seems the problem seems to be that old versions are never deleted? And given how mysterious the whole mechanism appears to be, maybe also that it’s not clear how to properly use and organize files so this doesn’t happen [no more multiple updated files, save-as, etc].
Trying to figure out what to do with the folder now, but thought I would report here in any case.
Thanks,