At 5:28 PM -0700 3/23/2009, tonycd wrote: >Mystery solved (and at the same time, deepened): After making the >above post, I tried to make space by trashing one 1 GB item. I hit >"Empty trash," and in an eyeblink, it emptied the trash and changed >its display to "40 GB available." > >Wow. Glad there's no crisis, but does anyone out there understand what >just happened?
The "erase free space" function works by creating a massive temp file then erasing it. Normally, when the task completes, the temp file is removed. Perhaps something interrupted the process? One possibility is that there could a permission issue going on. At this point, it might be a good idea to do a deep cleaning with AppleJack. Let it do all its steps, which will include (among other goodness) repairing your drive, cleaning out odd temp files, then repairing permissions. While I love Terminal - use it all the time... I'm not sure why MacLife would send you to Terminal, risking fateful typos etc, to do what you can do safely from Disk Utility. Did the magazine at least STRONGLY recommend that you run full backups first? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
