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From: wiseman@tellabs.com (Jeff Wiseman)
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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: 25 Jul 90 17:10:29 GMT
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In article <1990Jul24.202754.13288@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bhatlas@pyrite.SOM.CWRU.Edu (Sunil Bhatla) writes:
> "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.
>
>Where is the additional 12 Mb?   HELP!!

There is a possiblility that the disk space has been lost from the directory
structures on the disk. Apple distributes a utility called Disk First Aid (or
something like that). I believe that it has the capability of recovering "lost"
data sections from your disk.

In fact, I think that this is about the ONLY thing that this program does more
or less correctly :-)

Give it a try, it should be on your utilities disk that came with your system
files.

Hope this helps!


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