On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Machines are not alive and do not think. Calling them "stupid" does not help > anything.
Sorry. Freezing from the root canal was wearing off. > > 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? Copying from 1 to the other via USB 2 wire. About 18 gig was on the main HD and i was copying and pasting, about 28 gig. Files were propably around 45-50K of them, all jpg's. I held the on button until computer shut down. > > 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. I have the disk here some were. Dave > > 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Equine Photography >>>> www.caughtinmotion.com >>>> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >>>> Ontario Canada >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Equine Photography >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> Ontario Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
