Trash certainly helped, my son had 10GB in his trash can that brings it down to 47GB used, but the finder still says 15.3GB, are Cocktail or Yasu freeware?
Best Regards Hugh Griffiths -----Original Message----- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Howells Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:16 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 Have you emptied the Trash ? Try running a clean up program like Cocktail or Yasu Bob -- 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]> -- 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]>