Thanks to cheekygeek for these tips. I ran the disk repair with the install disk, and all it found was the volume needed minor repair and it fixed it. I also reran the disk permissions. Many needed fixing.
Still have 7.9 gig free as apposed to 18.4. Ran disk inventory, neat layout. Only big thing i saw was in users, sparse image files had 29 gig in it. In the sub directories a whole bunch of files named davebrooks.1 or davebrooks.15 etc. Not sure what this is, so its still on the computer. Nothing even close to 11 gig shows up. I;'m starting to panic now.:-) Dave On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, CheekyGeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, > My messages seem to not be getting to the pdml list, so I'm sending this > directly to you. > What version of the Mac OS are you running? Do you happen to run Norton > Antivirus? If so, which version? Do you have Filevault turned on? > > Forcing the mac to do it's maintenance (getting rid of logs and temp files) > may fix the problem: > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2319?viewlocale=en_US > > To see where big files exist- > Download this free program (it's excellent donationware): DiskInventoryX > DiskInventoryX is a great graphical way to identify what's taking up big > chunks of your hard drive (and where it is). > http://www.derlien.com/ > It reads your drive and creates a graphical view (color-coded shapes) > A 10 GB file is gonna be VERY easy to spot. It will tell you exactly where > that file is so you can go in and delete it. You might google the name of > the file before deleting it, just to make sure you aren't gonna mess > anything up by deleting it. > > A couple of other pages that might be useful: > > http://www.macfixitforums.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/353391/1/Where_Did_My_Disk_Space_Go > (This is 2 year old info and may not ALL apply to the newest versions of the > Mac OS.) > > This one is for Tiger (but some things might still apply to Leopard) > http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/TigerMisc.html > > > -d > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
