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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Started conversation Sep 22, 2011
I've got a 80GB HDD on my power book which is just about full (around 8GB to spare). I"m about to go delete a bunch of stuff but I notice that my HDD has only 62GB on it, and that included the system and library folders. Where is the rest?
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Sep 22, 2011
I can't be certain, but from the size discrepancy it sounds like you might have one or more "hidden" partitions, with things like a "restore image" of the OS, and/or a partition used as a "page file" or "swap file" to make your system memory appear to be larger.
I don't know the Power Book too well, but if the HDD is upgradable you'll find it's damn near impossible to get anything smaller than a 320GB HDD these days. The last 2.5" 320GB drive I bought was only around £40. If you think the lack of space is going to be a recurring problem you might want to consider biting the bullet and looking into an upgrade. 
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Sep 22, 2011
I'm about to buy a new powerbook 
So the missing 18GB isn't what the system takes up, that's in the 62GB on the HDD?
I'd only have a partition if I set one up wouldn't I? Definitely not done that.
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Orcus Posted Sep 22, 2011
Not necessarily, most branded PC's will have 'restore' partition on these days from purchase.
Plays havoc if you dare to install something like partition magic 
Not that I've been burned by this pish or anything 
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Orcus Posted Sep 22, 2011
Oh shoot, just noticed we're in the Orchard. Ignore that - PC thing I was talking about.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Sep 22, 2011
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turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Sep 23, 2011
I don't know if this helps - http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2419
I have taken a couple of screen shot of Disk Utility on the Macbook and what it reports for media and Macintosh HD - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.283825501628152.77253.100000021141273
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turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Sep 23, 2011
If the photos link doesn't work try this - https://www.facebook.com/turvy.the.cat?sk=photos
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Sep 23, 2011
Looks like only your friends can access your photos turvy. Will have a read of the article later
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hygienicdispenser Posted Sep 24, 2011
Turvy's links will work if you remove the 's' from 'https'.
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kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website Posted Sep 24, 2011
Nope.
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turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) Posted Sep 24, 2011
This is the public link apparently - http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.283825501628152.77253.100000021141273&l=ffef2f3aa4&type=1
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- 1: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Sep 22, 2011)
- 2: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Sep 22, 2011)
- 3: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Sep 22, 2011)
- 4: Orcus (Sep 22, 2011)
- 5: Orcus (Sep 22, 2011)
- 6: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Sep 22, 2011)
- 7: Orcus (Sep 22, 2011)
- 8: turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) (Sep 23, 2011)
- 9: turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) (Sep 23, 2011)
- 10: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Sep 23, 2011)
- 11: hygienicdispenser (Sep 24, 2011)
- 12: kea ~ Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded but very well read blue and white website (Sep 24, 2011)
- 13: turvy (Fetch me my trousers Geoffrey...) (Sep 24, 2011)
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