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From: bohus@heart.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: How do you clean up a hard disk without initializing it
Message-ID: <Feb.2.18.03.52.1991.1951@heart.rutgers.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 23:03:53 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Hi,

I ran into the following problem:

Probably because of a program which uses temporary files and crashes
sometimes (so it can't clean up), I have huge (well, several hundred k) 
portions on my hard disk, which are "allocated", but SUM Tuneup and SUM
Tools can't figure out who it belongs to. Also, if I add the sizes of
the "known" files and folders I get less by about the same size than
what the System reports as "xxx kbytes on disk". 
Initializing is obviously a solution, but a somewhat painful one. Is
there any other way? (I am not afraid of playing around with SUM Tools
or Resedit or something like this.)
Any suggestions? Please send email. Thanks,

gb

bohus@math.rutgers.edu