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alreed
posté sam. 17 mai 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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posté lun. 19 mai 2008, 17:32
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First max your ram if it isn't the case already, a laptop is more efficient with as much ram as it can host. (more ram = less swap in fact)

You must have caches and temp fils bloating space. Regular OnyX or Applejack use can help keep thing tidy and unbloated. Note that Applejack still doesn't work in Leopard AFAIK.

Check if you don't have loads of printer drivers, localisation files of software bloating space. Printer direvers are installed by default by OS X save if you tell it not so… There are utilities to remove unwanted languages files. All this can free more than a GB.

Mind that drives are getting cheaper… wink.gif


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- alreed   Systems Folder?   sam. 17 mai 2008, 16:26
- - mathologie   QUOTE (alreed @ Sat 17 May 2008, 15:26) h...   dim. 18 mai 2008, 09:13
|- - kayj_prod   QUOTE (mathologie @ Sun 18 May 2008, 09:1...   dim. 18 mai 2008, 14:33
- - qusp74   Could be fragmentation and remnants of old files, ...   dim. 18 mai 2008, 23:56
- - Rhsilverberg   QUOTE (alreed @ Sat 17 May 2008, 11:26) h...   lun. 19 mai 2008, 02:34
|- - ArchivalAudio   What tool programs do you use? Please try Applej...   lun. 19 mai 2008, 06:09
- - qusp74   I stand corrected, don't know what I was think...   mar. 20 mai 2008, 05:20
- - alreed   Thanks, A friend tried applejack recently on it a...   mar. 20 mai 2008, 08:03
- - alreed   OK... some more info coming up.... processor: 1.2...   mar. 20 mai 2008, 08:28
- - makaala   ifreemem is a great utility that doesn't requi...   mar. 20 mai 2008, 09:02
- - lepetitmartien   I think som exploration of you hard drive should b...   mar. 20 mai 2008, 17:04
- - ArchivalAudio   microsoft products like word (office) are notoriou...   mer. 21 mai 2008, 05:18
- - lepetitmartien   Note that a simple way to track some files is just...   mer. 21 mai 2008, 17:37
- - alreed   Um... ok I have a confesion to make, I went and go...   jeu. 22 mai 2008, 10:14
- - lepetitmartien   mind that a mac under OS X has jobs to do at night...   jeu. 22 mai 2008, 17:58
- - manso   Hello, sorry for my poor english. I'm writing ...   ven. 23 mai 2008, 16:38
- - lepetitmartien   Good idea ! (I never think about it, as it...   sam. 24 mai 2008, 04:30
- - alreed   Hello, Thanks for the sugggestion manso. Just che...   sam. 24 mai 2008, 10:03
|- - lancet   QUOTE (alreed @ Sat 24 May 2008, 04:03) A...   dim. 25 mai 2008, 17:08
|- - deaconblue   If you open your hard drive in list mode (detailed...   mar. 27 mai 2008, 04:00
- - alreed   If anyone's interested still, I solved it... a...   jeu. 26 juin 2008, 06:01
- - lepetitmartien   Citation (alreed @ jeu 26 jun 2008, 06:01...   lun. 30 juin 2008, 22:26


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