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| Thread ID: 75017 | 2006-12-13 22:39:00 | how find HD space in Mac OS X | mark c (247) | Press F1 |
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| 506471 | 2006-12-13 22:39:00 | Hi I've been messing about with a friend's laptop trying to find the avaliable disk space and getting nowhere, apart form the terminology being all diff. to windows, like an iDisk is a Windows HDD right? Anyone Mac user out there got the quick way to find this out without going twenty times round the iGasworks? Cheers Mark |
mark c (247) | ||
| 506472 | 2006-12-13 23:10:00 | Whip the hard drive out and dismantle it, sprinkle the platters with fine iron filings, tap gently (we don't want to damage the disk), and the areas with no filings are free space. Just simple logic will get you through. :badpc: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 506473 | 2006-12-13 23:20:00 | Hilarity 10 Helpfulness 0 Cheers anyway.....m |
mark c (247) | ||
| 506474 | 2006-12-13 23:49:00 | Double-click the hard drive's icon on the desktop and the free size will be stated at the bottom of the window. An iDisk is a paid-for file hosting service from Apple that functions like a hard drive, but since it's stored on the Internet you can access it from anywhere (I believe you can do this through a Web browser if you're not on a Mac but don't quote me on that). |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 506475 | 2006-12-13 23:59:00 | Thanks for that, and the clarification about iDisk. Will check out the icon on the desktop - sounds incredibly simple - don't know why we cxouldn't get that but maybe coz we though iDisk was Apple's name for a windows HDD. Cheers m | mark c (247) | ||
| 506476 | 2006-12-14 00:28:00 | There is no icon on the desktop but we found out what theHD is 37.3 Gig Fujitsu but can't find what we really want to know- the amount of ree space. Geez, my first exp. of a Mac and sure is like another language. | mark c (247) | ||
| 506477 | 2006-12-14 00:46:00 | If you cannot see the icon on the desktop just press command (to left of space bar) - N, this opens a new window that should have a hard disk icon. Double click the icon and it will open the disk and show the free space in the bottom of the window. ALternitively you can select the drive icon and press command-I (or right click and choose get info) to bring up the information. This article is about freeing HD space, but has instructions that may help you: www.thexlab.com Cheers, Grev |
Greville (4929) | ||
| 506478 | 2006-12-14 00:53:00 | Thanks a Gig for that - will give it a shot over the next day or so (not my laptop)...m | mark c (247) | ||
| 506479 | 2006-12-14 08:05:00 | As Greville said, if you select any folder or disk drive and go File > Get Info or Apple + I, you will get all the information you need to know about them. For disk drives you can also go to the Apple menu and select "About This Mac" and then click on "More Info". This will open the System Profiler which contains information about the computer. If the HD icon is not on the desktop, while in the Finder, go to Finder > Preferences > General and check the appropriate item to make it show up on the desktop. :) |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 506480 | 2006-12-14 09:43:00 | Many thanks Greville and maccrazy regrettably the lappy is no longer with me but has gone off with its owner (impressed tho he was that I could at least udentify the HD after he had spent many many hours trying to). Next time I see him I will try these tricks. Why do macs seem to make it so goddamm obscure , well, compared to the much maligned Windows? Interesting exp for me, I would've liked to bring it home with me and feed it electricity, play with it for as long as I liked.............m |
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