On 3 October, Nick wrote: ********* I have been working with a 7600/G3 with an internal of 1GB and two external drives attached. The machine has worked faultlessly for over a year but yesterday I could not print a job due to lack of disk space. With the minimum number of apps that I need plus OS 9.1 installed I used to have about 350MB of space on the internal but about 250MB has gone AWOL. The total of the amount of space each folder occupies plus the spare space does not add up to anything near IGB. There is nothing lurking on the desktop that I have not accounted for.
It seems some invisible file(s) has gobbled up the space. I do not want to take everything off and reinitialise, unless I really have to. Does anyone have any suggestions as to where I should look or how I can find out where the hard disk space has gone? ********* I had a similar problem on my PM 7200. In particular, I noticed that I freed up almost no disk space when I moved or deleted files. I finally discovered that the preferences for my TechTool Pro app had somehow gotten corrupted. The result was that the invisible Trash*Cache files it creates to help with file recovery would grow indefinitely, instead of cycling within the size I had specified. I didn't even know about these when I installed TechTool. The fix was to 1) trash the prefs file and 2) use a disk utility to make the invisible Trash*Cashe files visible, then deleting them. I can't remember the utility I used, but it came with my Mac Secrets CD. Hope this helps. Bob -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
