[HM] Re: deleting files

[Richard Clark]

On Giovedì, feb 27, 2003, at 00:37 Europe/Rome, T. Brown / groucho 
wrote:

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> On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 03:09  PM, Richard Clark wrote:
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>> Almost forgot i'm still waiting on the beach ball hasn't really done 
>> anything yet just 100 percent cpu usage and very little disk activity 
>> the finder always does this to me when i do things with big files 
>> guess i'll just wait it out..... I figure it must be doing something 
>> to be using 100 percent of cpu right??????? wow finally a window came 
>> up preparing to move to trash but it's beachballing too:)))))
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> Try quitting all applications.
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> If it beach balls too long ( hour ) force quit the finder and restart. 
> Choose a smaller amount of files to delete, and take it in a few 
> chunks. Make sure to empty the trash 1st.

left it beachballing all night woke up in the morning comp was asleep 
woke it up and it was still spinning, i did a relaunch of the finder 
and did a search again and 5 files out of 7563 came out so it meant 
that they did get deleted, just can't understand why OSX always gives 
me this ball that won't go away whenever i need to transfer big files.
> Do you have partitions ?
1 partition 120gb
> How much ram and disk space do you have left ?
Ram 1.2 gb while deleting 800 or so free disk space about 80gb
> Do you have an external drive ?
have an external usb optical but not hard drive
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> groucho
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