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Subject: Missing space
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Date: 22 Apr 91 20:21:00 GMT
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Here is a question that I recall hearing about, but I don't recall the answer.
   I am losing space on my apple 40 meg hard disk, and I don't know where it
is going. If I do a "get info" on the hard disk, it tells me that there is
40,119,296 bytes used in storing 1,139 files. If I "get info" for the 8 folders
in the top level of the hard disk, and add up the numbers, I get 33,340,071
megs. Disk First Aid doesn't seem to do much, and mactools thinks the disk is
o.k. as well. 
   I understand how small files take up more than they should because of
sector sizes and all that, but 7 megabytes seems a little extreme.
    Can anyone help me recover my lost space? (I feel a little bit like
will robinson.....)

Thanks very much,


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