[X4U] Problem with MBP and OS X 10.4.11

[Jens Selvig]

Just the fact that of the 27 gigs on his startup drive there is only few hundred megabytes available. Had he actually deleted the files (they are not visible in the trash) there would be a lot more space available on the drive.

Jens


On Apr 24, 2012, at 8:17 PM, catsoul wrote:

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> On Apr 24, 2012, at 7:13 PM, Jens Selvig wrote:
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>> I have a friend, in his mid eighties, who somehow has lost nearly all of his documents. He has a MBP G4 running 10.4.11. The hard drive has only 600 megs of free space so I am fairly certain the files still exist. I think most of the files were on his desktop.
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> Curious, what is it that makes you think the files are still there?  Did he or you not observe a huge increase in the amount of free space? Or..some other clue?
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> hope you find them all…have you or he tried to search for some file type or keyword he knows is in there?
> Maybe if that method reveals one file, it'll show where all the others are too…
> 
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Jens Selvig
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