i've heard of people saying this before, but never ever have i experienced such behavior in either of my 10.2.6 macs. that is downright strange, but 3 hours ago i had 6.06 gb free on my '01 ibook, and just now after reading your email, i still have exactly that. and i downloaded the most recent quake (~30MB) and i had exactly ~30MB less disk space, no more no less. what is going on over there, on your disk is more like it :) --alan On Thursday, June 19, 2003, at 05:15 AM, John Allan wrote: > X does really weird things with interneting ... Try browsing for a few > minutes and watch you HD lose 3 GB ... Download a 176k shareware and > lose > 100MB ... What the hell is going on in there?