Hi,
If you had a permission problem, it should have presented itself upon
the copy or delete. That is, a dialog should of appeared telling you
that there was a problem copying because you didn't have the proper
permissions or it would not have let you completely delete the
folder. There are a couple of little apps out there that will tell
you sizes of hidden files, I can't recall the names of them but the
one I used to use was mostly VO friendly. It started with a d and was
the app name followed by an X.
Later...
On 28-Sep-08, at 6:11 AM, John J Herzog wrote:
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
Tim Kilburn
& Carter the Canine
Fort McMurray, AB Canada
