John, the only way I know of to fix an issue like this would be to log into terminal and navigate to the folder and rem on it or at least have a look inside. if you still see the same results, you will probabl need to login as a super user or issue a command like "sudo ls /music". This will show you the folder with everything in it. If you have deleted the folder and have not gained all our space back, it is likely that your drive space has been taken by things that got put into other folders and I don't know how to find them. did you empt the trash?
----- Original Message ----- From: "John J Herzog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2008 8:11 AM Subject: a question about files and permissions Hi listers, I am experiencing some strange behavior and am hoping someone can help. Recently, I copied a folder with a substantial amount of music from an external drive. The folder was about 18 GB in size. Here's the interesting part. Although finder shows that my available disk space has been decreased by 18 GB, the finder only shows the music folder as being 4 GB in size. Similarly, I can only view the 4 GB or so of music. The rest of the files are there but inaccessible. Thinking the folder was corrupt, I deleted it. However, I only got 4 GB of space back. There's still about 14 gigs that finder says is no longer free, and yet I can't see the files occupying that space. What's going on here? Do I not have permission to view the rest of the files in that folder? How do I go about reclaiming my disk space? I don't even care about the music at this point, I just really want this fixed. Thanks for any info about this. Sincerely, John
