<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Hello,<div>I am trying to consolidate the contents of several smaller external HDs onto </div><div>an external 2T drive and am having a strange "memory leak" sort of problem. </div>
<div>The process is filling many GBs of the internal drives of the two Macs I have </div><div>tried this with. Details: source HD is an old firewire 400 Lacie 120G drive, </div><div>destination is Western Digital usb 2 drive formated for 32 fat, two computers </div>
<div>are an iMac 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo and a 17 inch MBP with same chip, both</div><div> run 10.5.8. For instance, I am now transferring a 78G folder and have </div><div>transferred 7.7G of it, but the available space on the internal iMac drive has </div>
<div>gone from 236G to only 192G! Something is taking up far more space on </div><div>the internal drive than has been actually transferred between the two </div><div>externals. I could imagine that an internal directory pointing to the </div>
<div>contents of the external drives might be expanding but how could </div><div>that be larger than the actual files? The additional space is returned </div><div>on a restart but I don't know anyway to free it up short of that.</div>
<div>Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.</div><div>Doug </div></span>