[G4] Hard Drive Bloat
    James Asherman 
    jimash at optonline.net
       
    Thu Aug  5 07:25:27 PDT 2004
    
    
  
On Thursday, August 5, 2004, at 02:31  AM, Lavode wrote:
>> One thing that can cause the disk usage to go up is watching lots of 
>> DVDs. Every time you watch a new DVD for the first time, its Desktop 
>> files get copied to your Boot Drive never to get deleted/removed 
>> again. These files are hidden so unless you look in the correct 
>> directory (using a "Show Invisible/Hidden" option) you'll never know 
>> they exist or be able to clean them up. Getting rid of them frees up 
>> space and the only downside is that you lose your bookmark of where 
>> you left off viewing the DVD and need to recopy the files if/when you 
>> view that DVD again.
>
> Nice.  What directory does it store it in?  Also, I can't find the 
> command in Panther to show invisible/hidden.  How do I do that?
>
> Thanks,
> Lavode
>
>
Open a finder window and then press command -F  this will open a finder 
dialog.
  Now what are these files called?
Jim
    
    
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