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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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Thu 26 Jun 2008, 06:01
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 13 Joined: 19-Feb 08 Member No.: 98,951 |
If anyone's interested still, I solved it... as a 'super-user'. If anyone else ever has this problem then read this:
I downloaded WhatSize, then... 1. Launched Terminal and typed sudo followed by a space. 2. Ctrl clicked on the freshly installed WhatSize application, and chose Show Package Contents. 3. Opened the Contents/MacOS folder within, and found the WhatSize unix executable file. 4. Dragged that file onto the Terminal window, and from within that window, pressed enter. 5. Entered admin password. This way I could open WhatSize as usual, but with superuser privileges and could read every directory on the hard drive I asked it to measure. WhatSize is freeware for up to 20GB of memory b4 you have to pay for a small license fee - so its good to know where to look - for me it was the Systems folder. My problem was 8GB of Trashes under Volumes in there. Because I'd been running Cubase through my external drive, the System had somehow still kept the trashes on the internal drive... Thanks to everyone for all the advice though! |
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 Mon 30 Jun 2008, 22:26
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Citation (alreed @ jeu 26 jun 2008, 06:01)  My problem was 8GB of Trashes under Volumes in there. Because I'd been running Cubase through my external drive, the System had somehow still kept the trashes on the internal drive... Strange, trashes are disk specific, you don't move the files to your system drive before deleting them…I think you met some bug in Cubase and it did not trash poperly some temporary files along the way… AGood to know! Which version of cubase have you used lately on which version(s) of the system? It may help others. Thanks for coming back and light up our lantern, this is something new your cubase trash thing. -------------------- Our Classifeds • Nos petites annonces • Terms Of Service / Conditions d'Utilisation • Forum Rules / Règles des Forums • MacMusic.Org & SETI@Home
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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 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 |
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