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<blockquote data-quote="Head_Unit" data-source="post: 1305816" data-attributes="member: 135495"><p>Welcome to the world of not wasting time goofing with Windows problems. But yes, things are different here.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That makes no sense. If you deleted 17GB of movies, then you should have >17GB of hard drive space. </p><p>Did you TRASH the movies? On a Mac, that means literally dragging them into the trash can in the Dock. </p><p>THEN, you must go to the Finder, and from the Finder menu item select Empty Trash. Until you Empty Trash, the space is still taken up on your hard drive!</p><p>WARNING: Once you Empty Trash, it is pretty much gone/dead/bye-bye and, unlike Windows, not easily recoverable even with shareware.</p><p></p><p>How much stuff do you have in iTunes? iPhoto? etc. (Go to the Finder, and your username is on the left pane of a Finder window. Click that, and you'll see Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Music, Pictures...right click each one to Get Info. Probably you have some huge bunch of stuff in one of those folders).</p><p></p><p>I would NOT delete other stuff, especially if you are a newbie. Mac code is much more efficient than windows, and programs/applications don't take up nearly as much space. What clogs the machine are images, sound, and video.</p><p></p><p></p><p>By the way, go to <a href="http://www.crucial.com" target="_blank">RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, SSD at Crucial.com</a></p><p>and buy yourself some more RAM. Your machine will run a bit happier with more memory.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Head_Unit, post: 1305816, member: 135495"] Welcome to the world of not wasting time goofing with Windows problems. But yes, things are different here. That makes no sense. If you deleted 17GB of movies, then you should have >17GB of hard drive space. Did you TRASH the movies? On a Mac, that means literally dragging them into the trash can in the Dock. THEN, you must go to the Finder, and from the Finder menu item select Empty Trash. Until you Empty Trash, the space is still taken up on your hard drive! WARNING: Once you Empty Trash, it is pretty much gone/dead/bye-bye and, unlike Windows, not easily recoverable even with shareware. How much stuff do you have in iTunes? iPhoto? etc. (Go to the Finder, and your username is on the left pane of a Finder window. Click that, and you'll see Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Library, Movies, Music, Pictures...right click each one to Get Info. Probably you have some huge bunch of stuff in one of those folders). I would NOT delete other stuff, especially if you are a newbie. Mac code is much more efficient than windows, and programs/applications don't take up nearly as much space. What clogs the machine are images, sound, and video. By the way, go to [url=http://www.crucial.com]RAM Memory Upgrade: Dell, Mac, Apple, HP, Compaq. USB drives, SSD at Crucial.com[/url] and buy yourself some more RAM. Your machine will run a bit happier with more memory. [/QUOTE]
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