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    Hard drive space disapearing

    I've an 80GB Hard drive and I've less than 3GB space on there. I'll get rid of some and see what happens. It sounds (from sinclair_tim's post) that that is the problem. I'll let you know if it still does it. I'm just glad its normal and not that something has happened to my comp :)
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    Hard drive space disapearing

    Hi, been a few days, but I finally got round to finding where the missing hard drive space is that remains lost after I close certain programs. It is in the the following location: Macintosh HD>private>var>vm There are files called swapfile0 thru to swapfile5 at the moment. They all have sizes...
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    Hard drive space disapearing

    When I close photoshop, some of the space is returned, but not all of it. I cannot seem to locate the rest of it, even with easyfind. Will keep looking. Any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to resolve it? Thanks
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    Hard drive space disapearing

    Update: Just tried to find a large video file that Omnidisksweeper found, went to open it but it opened iPhoto instead (clicked on wrong icon in spotlight). This cained the last of my hard drive space. So the prob is not isolated to photoshop. I then got the warning dialogue box that I saw...
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    Hard drive space disapearing

    Thanks, I downloaded Omnidisksweeper and found my photoshop temperoary files are getting huge. Thing is though, Omindisksweeper can find this file but I cannot in finder, nor with spotlight. The File is in users>me>shared>library>caches>cleanup at startup. But this folder, I cannot locate...
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    Hard drive space disapearing

    Something very strange is happening to my powerbook (G4 1.67GHz, 1.5Gb RAM, OSX10.4). My available space on my hard drive keeps disapearing to the point of me delete/moving 1.5Gb of files off my internal hard drive this morning, and now, half four, I have got only 151.5Mb available (and...
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    Upgrading RAM on Powerbook G4

    Thanks a lot, i'll get on and buy that then, gonna get it from crucial, you guys seem to like it & its a very helpful webby for beginners like me :D
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    Upgrading RAM on Powerbook G4

    Hi, just a quick question, probably simple: I am currently running tiger with 512mb ram, if I buy a 1Gb stick, will there be any problems as there are to different sizes in the slots?
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