> David's remarks, re: the 80 MB chunks of "Swap" space, got me > thinking. It's occurred to me that the most likely reason for the > missing 1.25 GB of drive space [on my internal 30GB drive], must be > all those 'invisible' OS files. Not all of it, but maybe 500MB or > more...Does that sound likely? It seems the Finder wouldn't 'add them > up', but the drive would 'see' them as space 'not available'. It depends on how you check... If you get info on all the folders in the root directory, those will not add up to the value quoted in the Get Info window for the drive, for that exact reason. / Rgds, David