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From: norman@cs.st-andrews.ac.uk (Norman Paterson)
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Subject: help with mac "virus"? (Mac)
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billj@uop.uop.edu (Snugglupagus) (vol 4 issue 74): we have noticed a
similar effect but only on the 800 kb floppies.  It seems that the
disc is fragmented and the missing space is recovered by drag copying
the old floppy to a newly initialised floppy.

I don't know if the hard disc software is more intelligent - I'd hope
so!  But you might try connecting up a spare hard disc, initialising
it, and drag copying the old one onto it, to see if your space
reappears.  Effectively you are compacting your disc by this method.

Norman