Ronni, thanks that was spot on, I do like being able to crash around inside MacOS using sudo!!
Best Regards Hugh Griffiths -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 4:23 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: macos space calculations On 28/06/2007, at 2:19 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: > i have an Ibook G4, running 10.4.10, when I do an apple-i on the HD > icon it tells me that it is 53.84 GB used on 55.76 GB with 1.92 GB > free. > > When i go to finder and view the HD as a list of folders with all > sizes calculated the folders only add up to 15.315 GB, where is the > rest of the data? > > I want to clean it up Hi Hugh, The X Lab explains well in this article: <http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html> I need to do this again, my 120GB HD only has 30GB free and I have Three External (320GB, 250GB, 250GB) firewire Drives full of stuff!!! Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
