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From: wgstuken@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Wolfgang Stukenbrock )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: VANISHED! 12 Mb on a 80 Mb Hard Disk
Keywords: hard disk space missing
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Date: 25 Jul 90 09:14:57 GMT
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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:

> "66,137K in disk  12,600K free"

>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.

>Where is the additional 12 Mb?   HELP!!

A suggestion:

Perhaps the 12Mb are hidden files>

Wolfgang

wgstuken@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de