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alreed
post Sat 17 May 2008, 16:26
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hi forum,

I'm wondering if anyone can help?

I have an iBook with a small, but sufficient hard drive of 28GB (I use external hard drives when I'm recording in Cubase or working with big files).

The problem is, even though my applications and iTunes(under User) only take up 10GB, since everything else is on the external hard drives, my hard drive says I'm using 27GB in total. That's 17GB unaccounted for! It was ok when it was 3-4GB, but 17 seems a bit much. Do I need to reinstall, or is it something wrong with my systems folder?

Any help would be REALLY appreciated, I've had this problem for the past year now!

Thanks...

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lepetitmartien
post Sat 24 May 2008, 04:30
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Good idea ! (I never think about it, as it's part of the Apple stuff I never never use)

Now the worst, if you activated Filevault once then disabled it, there's still the encrypted file around. I remember there are some issues to remove it, got to check if needed…


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- alreed   Systems Folder?   Sat 17 May 2008, 16:26
- - mathologie   QUOTE (alreed @ Sat 17 May 2008, 15:26) h...   Sun 18 May 2008, 09:13
|- - kayj_prod   QUOTE (mathologie @ Sun 18 May 2008, 09:1...   Sun 18 May 2008, 14:33
- - qusp74   Could be fragmentation and remnants of old files, ...   Sun 18 May 2008, 23:56
- - Rhsilverberg   QUOTE (alreed @ Sat 17 May 2008, 11:26) h...   Mon 19 May 2008, 02:34
|- - ArchivalAudio   What tool programs do you use? Please try Applej...   Mon 19 May 2008, 06:09
- - lepetitmartien   First max your ram if it isn't the case alread...   Mon 19 May 2008, 17:32
- - qusp74   I stand corrected, don't know what I was think...   Tue 20 May 2008, 05:20
- - alreed   Thanks, A friend tried applejack recently on it a...   Tue 20 May 2008, 08:03
- - alreed   OK... some more info coming up.... processor: 1.2...   Tue 20 May 2008, 08:28
- - makaala   ifreemem is a great utility that doesn't requi...   Tue 20 May 2008, 09:02
- - lepetitmartien   I think som exploration of you hard drive should b...   Tue 20 May 2008, 17:04
- - ArchivalAudio   microsoft products like word (office) are notoriou...   Wed 21 May 2008, 05:18
- - lepetitmartien   Note that a simple way to track some files is just...   Wed 21 May 2008, 17:37
- - alreed   Um... ok I have a confesion to make, I went and go...   Thu 22 May 2008, 10:14
- - lepetitmartien   mind that a mac under OS X has jobs to do at night...   Thu 22 May 2008, 17:58
- - manso   Hello, sorry for my poor english. I'm writing ...   Fri 23 May 2008, 16:38
- - alreed   Hello, Thanks for the sugggestion manso. Just che...   Sat 24 May 2008, 10:03
|- - lancet   QUOTE (alreed @ Sat 24 May 2008, 04:03) A...   Sun 25 May 2008, 17:08
|- - deaconblue   If you open your hard drive in list mode (detailed...   Tue 27 May 2008, 04:00
- - alreed   If anyone's interested still, I solved it... a...   Thu 26 Jun 2008, 06:01
- - lepetitmartien   Citation (alreed @ jeu 26 jun 2008, 06:01...   Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:26


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