'.' indicates the root of the drive, i.e., open up the hard drive viewer and you are looking at '.' -- you can't delete that. You need some program that cleans temporary files, someone on the list maybe can suggest one?
2008/12/15 D Stubbs <[email protected]>: > Thankyou everyone! > Thanks to Tony mentioning Inventory X - now I can see 6 gigs I dont need > bloating space, wahoo! > But for a little clarification... > I am a blacksmith, not a puter xpert, so some of your sincere replies are a > bit over my head, would it be helpful to have new members give a 1-10 rating > of their computer saviness? I'd say 2 or 3 for me. > Through Inventory X I see a folder in my 10.3.9 partition that has no more > name than a 'period'. thats all [ . ] > It has 4.3 gigs of duplicated user and administrator stuff - good grief. > it must have happened a year back when I tried doing some updating after my > puter guru friend got too sick to come out & help anymore. I am confident > this folder can be dumped ( thanks to you folks I have made a ccc backup > now) > However this 4.3 gig folder does not show up in the normal osx folder - how > do I locate it so it can be trashed? > I have more of your emails to reply to yet but think to just send this for > now because it is the biggest problem > thanks so much again, > Del > > ( I still run our family biz website on Pagemill 3. I have installed a new > seagate 160 GB hard drive inside our Sawtooth, but am waiting on the time to > learn how to move over to it and upgrade to Tiger - as a handcraftsman in > the sticks I'm a bit short on time to self learn puter stuff) >> >> >> On 15-Dec-08, at 12:32 PM, MIKO .. wrote: >> >> > On Dec 15, 2008, at 9:05 AM, MnDel wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Hello, >> >> Since I keep getting 'startup disc is out of room' messages when I do >> >> a few pics in Photoshop, I totalled up everyting in my 15 GB 10.3.9 >> >> partition: (4 folders - Apps, Users, Library, System) and it came >> >> to >> >> only 8.2GB. >> >> However when I click 'get info' on this partition is shows less than >> >> 1GB free space with no apps running. >> >> I sure need to free up some HD space, where else should I look? >> >> Thanks!, Del >> >> >> >> G4 Sawtooth 500MHz >> >> 768 MB >> >> 10.3.9 >> >> I use a program called Disk Inventory X ( http://www.derlien.com/ ) >> that's great at giving a graphical representation of where my HD space >> is being used up. It shows everything, including hidden folders. >> >> - Tony >> > > > > > -- -hackmiester --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
