> So I restarted the machine. Oh dear. It booted, but now not only were
> my Finder prefs completely messed up (my Dock was TOTALLY different!),
> I finally noticed I had only 186MB of free drive space. That's not
> enough to safely run OS X.
For future reference, if you boot to single-user mode you could fix this
pretty fast with the shell. Don't know if Jugwire boots to single-user
or not, but on the earlier versions you held down command-S to do so.
You can use
find . -size +100000 -ls
to display only those files bigger than around 100 MB. Then, the ones
you don't like: remove them with rm. Sometimes you have to be more
selective about what you're looking for, but that will probably work.
Of course, you can check and repair the file system from the command
line, too.
This will be more important when machines no longer boot to OS 9.
Glad you recovered your machine.
Mike
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