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From: jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jerome Yvon Plun)
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Subject: Re: VANISHED! 12 Mb on a 80 Mb Hard Disk
Keywords: hard disk space missing
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Date: 26 Jul 90 13:39:22 GMT
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In article <3022@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wgstuken@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wolfgang Stukenbrock ) writes:
>bhatlas@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Sunil Bhatla) writes:
>
>
>>The last thing I need is a shrinking hard disk...
>
>>My 80 Mb internal hard drive (on a Mac IIx)  shows:
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>> "66,137K in disk  12,600K free"
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>>But when I catalog all the files (including the desktop)
>>I can only account for 56 Mb.  I tried Redux and a couple of
>>disk cataloguing programs, and they all tell me the same thing.
>
>>Someone suggested I zap the PRAM, but that didn't help.
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>>Where is the additional 12 Mb?   HELP!!
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>A suggestion:
>
>Perhaps the 12Mb are hidden files>
>
>Wolfgang
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>wgstuken@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

We had the same problem after optimizing an 80 Mb hard drive with 
DiskExpress.  The desktop was showing ~ 60Mb full while only a third of the
drive was actually used.  The only solution we had was to restore the drive
to its state before optimization.

Jerome

jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu