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Major problem with invisible file
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Sep 13, 2006, 08:25 AM
 
Hello to everyone
Today I had the amazing luck to mysteriously lose 3.5Gb of my hard disk...
Azureus was the problem. I usually save the files azureus downloads on the external hard drive. But I forgot to turn it on. As a result it used the internal hard disk space occupying 3.5gb that I now can't retrieve. Leaving me with 200MB on my internal disk... I've used the wheresthefreespace program but it can't find a file that big. I cleaned up everything with onyx but still nothing. The only place I haven't looked is the .trashes folder which says that I haven't got the privileges to do so...

Any help guys would be seriously appreciated....
     
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Sep 13, 2006, 09:14 AM
 
Problem solved!
It's very weird though. The volumes invisible folder wasn't showing up. Not until I reopened azureus and ran the checking of the file. After that I could access the invisible volumes folder in finder and delete the file... It should have shown up before right????
If you have any thoughts on that please post them.
     
   
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