Keychain taking up all disk-space

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Please help!
My disk is full. Everytime I delete somthing, it takes a day, and the disk is full again.
I have a second hand macbook air from 2010.
I ran omnidisksweeper, which tells me that my keychain file is taking up 192GB(!) I tried deleting it with this program, but it doesn't work!
Could it be a virus? I ran F-secure, and it didn't find anything.

Help is appreciated.
 
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I ran omnidisksweeper
I ran F-secure
no wonder you are having problems.

You can see what is in your keychain buy using Keychain Access, this will show you whats putting stuff in it.

but I suspect its a failing harddrive, ensure you have a good backup.
 
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Apple recommends that you operate with at least 25% free hard disk space. That's because it does all sorts of things with that space. On a MacBook Air, maintaining free space is always a challenge.

I'm not familiar with Omnidisksweeper, but when it reports a file with size 192GB on a MacBook Air, you know that whatever your problem is, it's serious! Is your drive 80 or 120GB? I suspect Kaveman's on the right track, something is very wrong with your hard drive.

Make a thorough backup of your files. Get a brand new good quality external drive, and run a complete Time Machine backup. Then take it to a qualified Mac specialist and get them to investigate.
 

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