The new issue of MacLife advises: "The terminal is your friend. (Use the) key combo: diskutil secureErase freespace 3 /Volumes/Macintosh HD
"Securely erases data on the free space of a Mac hard drive called Macintosh HD (you would replace Macintosh HD wiht the name of the drive you wish to erase, of course)." I followed this advice. Now when I run "Get Info" on my hard drive, it says this: Capacity: 74.41 GB Available: 1.2 MB Used: 74.4 GB on disk Inside the root-level folder "Users," the folder that bears my name (it has a home icon on it -- I'm the administrator, of course) says it has 51 GB in it. But the sum of the visible contents is less than one- fifth of that figure. What gives? And what next? Do I have to transfer all my disk contents to my backup drive, then back again, to fix this? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
