05-14-2009, 09:55 AM

My G4 laptop has been running out of HD space. When I was backing things up, I noticed when I look at the desktop folder it shows over three gigs, but when I go into the folder, I it only adds up to about a gig. I assume there are some invisible files taking up room. Any suggestions?

Thanks
Jeff

05-14-2009, 10:17 AM

Yeah it will be a page file. That is normal. You need to clean up or upgrade HDD.

05-14-2009, 10:20 AM

Thanks B&O.

Can you explain further about clean up?

Jeff

05-14-2009, 10:25 AM

Delete some files or move them to either an external HDD or DVDs.

05-14-2009, 10:45 AM

Thanks again, but the problem is, I can't see these files. I could delete the stuff I can see, but that might save me a half of a gig. I want to delete the 2+ gigs that are not accounted for.

05-27-2009, 10:32 AM

Problem Solved. I did a search on the internet for files that disappear, since I figured it was something like that.

I was told to enter some code into the Terminal window (found in Applications/Utilities).

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
killall Finder


Once there, I found a lot of temp files from Stuff it and other things that were taking up like 2 gigs of space!

Once done I changed true to false and it put my mac back to normal!

Just thought I'd post this in case anyone is having the same problem.