[G4] Hard Drive Bloat

Lavode lavode at comcast.net
Wed Aug 4 23:31:53 PDT 2004


> One thing that can cause the disk usage to go up is watching lots of 
> DVDs. Every time you watch a new DVD for the first time, its Desktop 
> files get copied to your Boot Drive never to get deleted/removed 
> again. These files are hidden so unless you look in the correct 
> directory (using a "Show Invisible/Hidden" option) you'll never know 
> they exist or be able to clean them up. Getting rid of them frees up 
> space and the only downside is that you lose your bookmark of where 
> you left off viewing the DVD and need to recopy the files if/when you 
> view that DVD again.

Nice.  What directory does it store it in?  Also, I can't find the 
command in Panther to show invisible/hidden.  How do I do that?

Thanks,
Lavode



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