Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!cert.sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: keir@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Rick Keir, MACC) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: help with mac "virus"? (Mac) Message-ID: <0006.9105081310.AA02449@ubu.cert.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 7 May 91 17:27:07 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 17 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu billj@uop.uop.edu (Snugglupagus) writes... >- - the mac has a 40 meg hard disk >- - there is only about 16 meg of software installed >- - both the finder and mactools report 38 meg used, 2 meg free This is fairly common in the Mac labs here. Run "Disk First Aid" (from Apple, the free thing) and tell it to fix the drive. Your students have probably been having programs crash frequently, so that you have unused space which is neither in a file nor free. (What DOS refers to as "lost" space -- D.F.A. will just say "fixed"). Important: Disk First Aid is NOT the same thing as "First Aid HFS", although half the people I tell about these programs seem to want to use whichever one I *didn't* mean. Both programs are good but they do different things. Use Apple's to recover lost space from your hard disk