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Thanks for the tips. I brought it in, and they think disk (I am hoping for controller). The data is probably gone, a relatively cheap way to teach him the necessity of backups. sfsg

My son has a macbook with OSX 10.4.7. Several days ago it suddenly stopped, and when he tries to reboot it nothing happens - he gets a white screen which lasts for several minutes, then a flashing folder with a question mark shows up in the middle. It appears not to be able to find a file...

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually I already found this posting and tried everything it suggested, but no luck. There are no large files, and WhatSize reports 40 GB used in the main FS, but the sum of sizes of all the dirs is only 16GB. The space is somehow being removed from the free list but...

My son's macbook has OSX 10.4.7, 60gb disk. He has had it for only a few months, and there is lots of missing space on the disk. The free space has dropped steadily from about 45GB to about 17GB, where it is now. I am a unix guy, so I used find to look for large logfiles, and there were none...