Re: How to clear hard drive?
Re: How to clear hard drive?
- Subject: Re: How to clear hard drive?
- From: Gareth Eason <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 19:02:16 +0000
- Organization: University of Limerick Computer Society
Hi,
This might sound silly, but did you 'empty' your Trash? The space will
still be used up until you actually empty the trash can.
Click and hold over the Trash Can icon in the dock, until a menu
containing the option 'Empty' appears in a balloon above it. Select the
'Empty Trash...' menu item and your disk space should be released for
you to use for your next project :-)
You may need to reboot before the desktop icon of the disk updates to
the correct Used/Free values.
If this doesn't help, drop me a private e-mail and perhaps I can talk
you through some more steps to see what the problem is.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
-->Gar
Bob Goodwin wrote:
ginette greene wrote:
Hello:
I am the daughter, who as my father has kindly explained, has the
problem with the mac and remaining space on the HD.
* First off I connected the 250GB Lacie Portable Disk Drive, which
my mac recognized with little effort.
* Then I selected, Clicked & Dragged a sample 3GB Image Folder
into the Lacie.
* Once I was able to see that that was working, I took the test
folder and dropped it into the trash, and deleted it. No problem.
* I did the same to the main 52GB image folder, and 22 hours later
the transfer was complete. Only this time the HD image files
were gone from the "HD Pictures" directory before I could drop
them into the Trash! And my usable space is still
embarrassingly minuscule. Yes, I am beyond the 80% recommended
on the HD, which is why I saved and purchased the Lacie...
* I am able to access the files from the new drive.
* I have tried to find the files on the HD, but cannot locate
them, and still I am showing less than 4 GB on the HD even after
several reboots.
Any ideas?
Help would be gratefully appreciated, as I have at least 500M of
images to offload and need to be able to work them...
Thank you for all the input.
I remain,
the daughter,
ginette
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