> not taking a ludicrous 120gb(so far) log file into
> account, that is.
Don't run with log = debug.
> 
> I'm also positive, as I checked the status of the
> copy on occasion, that the local files once were
> +12gb, and then they started disappearing.
HTT stores temporary, internal processing, binary data, in filename.html.tmp.
Those are 100KB each and are deleted once the actual html files has been
processed.
So if the site has lots of links breath wise (not depth wise) that can
happen.