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Thank you! I used GrandPerspective and found 649 files, whose names all start with "magick-", in private/var/tmp. Since they are all around 13-14 MB, that makes almost 9GB. Thank you again very much for sharing your time and expertise.

There are tools that will search for very large files? Could you name some?

I did restart the computer, but there was no change. Well, it did clear some space as always on a restart, but not as much as I was hoping for.

I'm going to go through my backups to see if I can figure out where the space went. I was watching free disk space drop as the command was running, so I know it was related to the malformed ImageMagick command, but that's about it. Thanks so much for your time and effort anyway!

Hmm, I don't understand the result of ls -al: Macintosh:tmp juliebarkley$ ls -al total 0 drwxrwxrwt 10 root wheel 340 10 Dec 03:15 . drwxr-xr-x@ 6 root wheel 204 1 Jan 2015 .. drwxrwxrwx 2 juliebarkley wheel 68 9 Dec 00:16 Digital Editions drwx------ 3 juliebarkley wheel 102 10 Dec 02:10 ...

Thanks for helping! Ok, my version is ImageMagick 6.8.9-1 Q16 i386 2014-07-25. It was installed with HomeBrew. Both of the convert -a commands give: convert is /usr/local/bin/convert It looks like my /tmp directory contains some weird stuff: Macintosh:tmp juliebarkley$ ls Digital Editions ...

I am rather new at ImageMagick and the command line in general. I needed to batch convert some images, but used the convert command rather than mogrify several times (which didn't work). I got error messages each time it failed, but didn't realize that the available space on my computer was dropping ...