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 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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Sat 24 May 2008, 10:03
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Hello,
Thanks for the sugggestion manso. Just checked the security and the filevault's off. doh! As far as I know it's always been off, but maybe it was switched on once and there are still encrypted filles lying around somewhere I can't find? Supposing this is the case, where and how might I find them I wonder?? |
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Sun 25 May 2008, 17:08
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QUOTE (alreed @ Sat 24 May 2008, 04:03)  As far as I know it's always been off, but maybe it was switched on once and there are still encrypted filles lying around somewhere I can't find? Supposing this is the case, where and how might I find them I wonder?? Don't waste your time. File vault encrypts your entire user folder and only your user folder. It does so by creating an encrypted disk image of it. Once it's turned off, it's off. If you only have one user home folder when you look in /Users then it's not the issue. Sometimes when file vault goes bad you end up with a second user folder. This is because the encrypted image becomes unreadable and the OS is forced to make you a new default user folder. This post has been edited by lancet: Sun 25 May 2008, 17:10 -------------------- |
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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 lepetitmartien Good idea ! (I never think about it, as it... Sat 24 May 2008, 04:30 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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