For clarity, it *may* be that this is not the normal situation for the '.' root of the drive. That it was a folder accidently renamed by me instead (farbeit for me to know about roots of drives though) Below is what is listed in Disk Inventory X about this folder :
Kind: folder (4) Size:4.8GB modified 6/16/06 created: 9/12/03 owner: group: Permission: drwx...... Path: /. Application: Disk Inventory X Format: HFS+ Mount Point/ Device: /dev/disk0s 10 I tried to trash it from Inventory X but it said I did not have permission thanks, Del On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Hunter Fuller <[email protected]>wrote: > > '.' 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) > >> > >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
