[X Newbies] How the Grinch Stole 45GB of My Hard Drive

[Chuck Britton]

I'm a total unix illiterate (and haven't yet found the reason the 
change) so this my be common knowledge to some of you.

Might the excessive swap-file thing be helped by running the nightly 
janatorial stuff? I suspect that a lot of OS-X-ers don't let the 
machine 'age' correctly during the night?????


At 7:30 AM -0500 11/30/02, TheMacintoshLady wrote:
>Kevin Stevens tapped out this message on 11/30/2002 6:56 AM
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>>>  Vicki Schalin tapped out this message on 11/30/2002 6:13 AM
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>>>>  Swapfiles made my life misserable
>
>>On Saturday, Nov 30, 2002, at 03:44 US/Pacific, TheMacintoshLady wrote:
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>>>  I thought this system was supposed to be perfect with no memory
>>>  troubles,
>>>  etc.?
>
>>Ask a question, give an answer, or shut up, troll.
>
>Calling names again? Hmmm, sorry you find it so hard to defend...
>
>The question has been asked already.
>A comment was given, as an observation. Sorry you had trouble with that.
>The original questioner and I both still await the "answer".
>
>
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