What am I downloading??

[weebobster]

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing (especially in my case )

I run Mac OSX (10.6.2) and use the Mobileme service.

Anyway, decided to have a wee clean up of my file structure (documents/music etc) and woke up to find that I have now downloaded 4GB of data

This, of course, may have nothing to do with mobileme and may be something else i was fiddling with during my cleanup (i did someting similar with dropbox at the same time).

So my question is this

Is there a piece of software that will identify what is downloading so that I can stop it. I run a slingbox on a LAN so the Net Monior software I have can not disinguish between LAN traffic and Internet traffic)

Please help before I have to stop using my laptop for the rest of the month (im about to hit my download limit

Thanks in advance

PS - I originally had this posted on the Nework forum but was advised to try here.

Bob

 

[Vonhelmet]

Little Snitch will tell you about things going out, but I'm not sure it'll tell you about things coming in.

Alternatively, you could just run a search for files changed within that time window and see if that turns up anything interesting.

 

[James J]

It wasnt a backup of your files going to your iDisc was it?

 

[Deleted member 651465]

3 possibilities..

1. Complete iDisk sync
2. Slingbox traffic
3. Dropbox

 

[weebobster]

Thanks for the advice - ill try and work my way through all the possiblies

Does anyone know of/recommend software that can tell the difference between proper downloads/uploads (eg Mobileme activity) and Lan acivity (eg watching slingbox in the house .. not remotely). The Net Monitor software that I have cant tell the difference between the two

Thanks again

Bob

 

[Mr_White]

Check activity monitor whilst the system is idle, and quit any program that you're certain isn't doing it, you might notice an anomaly in the CPU usage of whichever process is downloading, that would at least give you a lead if you can't find out any other way.

That of course relies on it being something sustained, rather than a scheduled occurrence, unless you manage to catch it during that.