Machines are not alive and do not think. Calling them "stupid" does
not help anything.
Certainly look to see whether a large cache file was created during
the course of copying ... delete it if you find one. If you copied by
dragging and dropping the files using the Finder, the Finder has to
figure out what the files are and caches the information so it can
call OS services to do the copying.
You didn't give much information ...
Copying files from one HD to another: how were the two HDs connected?
USB 2, FireWire? Copying by means of drag and drop? How much space was
available on the destination drive? How many file and of what size
were you trying to copy? How did you "force close" the system?
Aborting file copy operations is always tricky. Permissions repair
isn't a sufficient file system check. Boot the system, insert the OS
distribution DVD into the CD/DVD drive, and restart the system from
the OS distribution DVD. Then run Disk Utility from the "Utilities"
menu and do a file system verify on the startup volume. If it finds
any errors ... it might ! .. run a repair. That might reclaim disk
space lost through temporary cache space allocations, but it will
certainly tell you whether there are any file system structure problems.
Godfrey
On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:15 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
Ok, thanks Paul.
Could explain why it hung up. I was trying to transfer over 28 gig of
files with 18 free on the HD.
I thought it would just transfer from one external to the other, but i
supposed wrong, again.:-)
Dave
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:00 AM, PN Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
The computer saved those files somewhere on your startup drive.
Check the
documents folder or do a file search.
Paul
On Nov 13, 2008, at 9:41 AM, David J Brooks wrote:
So i go to bed last night, with 18.43 free gig on the ibook.
Log on this morning to check my emails, and i see i'm down to 7.9
free
gig.
Arrrrrg.
Only thing i did was try and transfer some files from one external
HD
to another, it hung up so i did a
force close.
Could that be my problem.?? I also ran permission repair.
Dave
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