Thankyou everyone! Thanks to Tony mentioning Inventory X - now I can see 6 gigs I dont need bloating space, wahoo! But for a little clarification... I am a blacksmith, not a puter xpert, so some of your sincere replies are a bit over my head, would it be helpful to have new members give a 1-10 rating of their computer saviness? I'd say 2 or 3 for me. Through Inventory X I see a folder in my 10.3.9 partition that has no more name than a 'period'. thats all [ . ] It has 4.3 gigs of duplicated user and administrator stuff - good grief. it must have happened a year back when I tried doing some updating after my puter guru friend got too sick to come out & help anymore. I am confident this folder can be dumped ( thanks to you folks I have made a ccc backup now) However this 4.3 gig folder does not show up in the normal osx folder - how do I locate it so it can be trashed? I have more of your emails to reply to yet but think to just send this for now because it is the biggest problem thanks so much again, Del
( I still run our family biz website on Pagemill 3. I have installed a new seagate 160 GB hard drive inside our Sawtooth, but am waiting on the time to learn how to move over to it and upgrade to Tiger - as a handcraftsman in the sticks I'm a bit short on time to self learn puter stuff) > > > On 15-Dec-08, at 12:32 PM, MIKO .. wrote: > > > On Dec 15, 2008, at 9:05 AM, MnDel wrote: > > > >> > >> Hello, > >> Since I keep getting 'startup disc is out of room' messages when I do > >> a few pics in Photoshop, I totalled up everyting in my 15 GB 10.3.9 > >> partition: (4 folders - Apps, Users, Library, System) and it came > >> to > >> only 8.2GB. > >> However when I click 'get info' on this partition is shows less than > >> 1GB free space with no apps running. > >> I sure need to free up some HD space, where else should I look? > >> Thanks!, Del > >> > >> G4 Sawtooth 500MHz > >> 768 MB > >> 10.3.9 > > I use a program called Disk Inventory X ( http://www.derlien.com/ ) > that's great at giving a graphical representation of where my HD space > is being used up. It shows everything, including hidden folders. > > - Tony > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
