Here's a weird problem of mine...whenever I put something in the trash and delete it, it takes away space from my hard drive! I had 50 gigs of space left, and I put my Everquest demo in the trash then deleted it, now I have 49.95 gigs of space! :o

Don't tell me to post this in the Technical Support board, because it usually takes about two days or so for people to respond, and I need an answer now.

Hmmm.. That's the strangest think I ever saw. What version of Mac OS X? 10.3.7? Did you EMPTY THE TRASH? ;) Anyway, what I would do is phone Apple's support line, ask them what the heck the problem is. If they don't know, for an insane reason, back up all your important stuff onto a DVD, and re-install OS X from your startup DVD. Erase your whole computer. Then see if it works. :)

Are you sure the thing went IN the trash? Maybe the program duplicated when you trashed it.

Spunky,
Lets repeat the problem...
If you would indulge me, repeat the test using the steps I have outlined below....
(the following reads like a lot of steps, but really it is only two or three minutes of experimenting. The overall idea is to duplicate the test by making a test folder, and writing down your findings along the way... Very simple)

Step 1) Take a look at the available space on your hard drive.

Step 2) Write down (on a piece of paper) the "available space" number.

Step 3) Choose a large folder, say a 1GB folder of a game or something, Get Info on that folder and write the size of the folder down...

Step 4) Duplicate the large folder, call the copied folder "Test Folder" so there is no confusion down the road. Write down the size of the copied folder. It should be identical to the original (duh).

Step 5) Now again check your available space on the disk. It should be (roughly) reduced by the same size as what you copied. Write down that number.

Step 6) NOW toss the newly duplicated folder (named "Test Folder") into the trash and empty the trash.

Step 7) Now your available space should be back to where you started. Write down that number.

Step 8) IF the number from step 7 is larger than the number from step 2, reboot your machine and check the available space again after the boot.

Step 9) IF the available space (after the reboot) is STILL larger than the number from step 2, Post your findings here for us to analyze.

Last edited: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at 6:19:57 PM

Another quick thought - sometime when you remove something it leaves some things behind... Registry settings, empty folders, etc.... Enough to leave a mark. I would remove everything the "proper" way and then go digging around for what evidence might still be around.

Sil