how long is a piece of string?

When you download files they are normally compressed so when you install them 
they will be much larger.

You may also have a log file that is growing in size so may be worth doing a 
search for all new files in the last two weeks and see what sizes they are.

Roger

On 22/05/2010, at 11:35 AM, John Thompson wrote:

> 
> Could someone please tell me what could/may cause the remaining hard drive 
> capacity on my Mac Mini to, in the past two weeks, drop from 279 GB Available 
> to 267 GB Available.  To my knowledge, I have not downloaded anything like 12 
> GB. My monthly allowable download is only 1 GB on my plan.
> 
> OS 10.6.2
> Processor 2.53 GHz Core 2 Duo
> Memory 4GB 1067 MHz 
> 
> 
> 
> John E. Thompson
> 14 McGlew Street
> Eden Hill  W.A.  6054
> Ph. 08-92793524
> Mob. 0412 775 197
> Email. jet...@iprimus.com.au
> 
> 
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