On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 05:48 AM, Amber wrote: > Can anybody think of any reason for a sudden loss of 6 gigs of hard > drive space ? > ... > Now I suddenly have only 4. Nothing has been installed for over 3 > weeks.
The closest I've come is having a few temporary files left over after using Photoshop to scan a Q950 motherboard. I tried quite a few times to save the pics as .jpg images, but PS crashed several times in a row - each time, it left one of its gigantic scratch files sitting in Temporary Items. I only lost about 2.5GB when this happened, but for a 10gb drive that was half full, it was noticeable too. I could delete the files easily under OSX, but if you're using OS9 it may be worth grabbing greg's browser from versiontracker if you don't already have it, and peeking around at a few of the hidden files/folders across the drive. Turning on List view and Calculate Folder Sizes temporarily (even in the normal finder) could locate some large files if they're hidden down in the directory tree - even if they're hidden, the folders that contain them should show up as being pretty bloated. dana -- http://www.danamania.com/ -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
