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From: mnykanen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: HELP!!! What's eating my hard disk?
Message-ID: <2782.26a41d98@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 18 Jul 90 08:28:08 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.075148.422@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <1990Jul17.075148.422@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>, topix@gpu.utcs.
utoronto.ca (R. Munroe) writes:
> I have a Mac/SE running 6.0.2.  I have 2.5 meg RAM and a CMS 30 meg 
> internal hard disk (SCSI).  I had multifinder activated and was in THINK C
> when
> an improper call to BlockMove crashed my system.  After hitting the
> programmer's reset button, everything booted up fine except that I am
> now missing almost 3 meg off my hard disk.  If this was unix I'd be
> looking for a core dump - since the missing disk space is more or less
> equal to my RAM.  I took inventory of all my top level folders and, 
> sure enough, they all add up to 3 meg less than what my system tells
> me is currently being used.  Any ideas? 
> 
> Any and all help would be most appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob Munroe
> topix@utcs.utoronto.ca
Could these be related? Similar situation except 2Mb RAM and 40Mb
internal Apple HD, THINK (then LightSpeed) C 3.0; a spectacular system
crash in a program using BlockMove (whether actually in it I cannot say)
resulted in C leaving behind a 10Mb project file for 200-line program!
The error wasn't reproducible. Could it be that neither the old nor the
new C is NOT cleaning up properly? In my case, though, I just dragged
the 10Mb beast to trash..
-- 
Matti Nyk{nen
CS Student at Helsinki U, Finland
email: mnykanen@cc.helsinki.FI

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