On Jul 4, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote:
> > OK, I am on a B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD > OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) > I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit > Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD space free (it is > down to 40.8 MB) > I have only downloaded 2 small pictures (Daily Kitten) and earlier I > took some stuff off the HD and put them onto a flash disk (to free up > a little more space). > > What could be causing this? It is a recent issue and I have even less > tabs open than before this ever happened. > > Earlier I ran DiskUtility but it stopped and after 30 minutes of it > not advancing (it froze the machine so a reboot was necessary). I > rebooted the machine > > I do NOT have the 10.2 CDs This might sound obvious. but did you also empty the Trash after you made more room? 40.8MB isn't anything relative to hard disk space. Sure that wasn't memory left while running several apps? Browsers have caches and things that I believe are on the hard drive ... and they grow/shrink as they are programmed to do. I've read somewhere if your free hard drive space is less than 50% of the total, you might even have trouble running OS X ... don't know the facts here, but you need more free space just to run OS X ... after the space taken up by the Installation. I think its called Virtual RAM cache. 40.8MB if you are talking about hard drive space, just isn't enough, AFAIK. Maybe others can help ... using applejack comes to mind, but I cannot advise you how to do that ... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
