Hi there,
I have a first generation iMac G5 and it come with 80GB of internal storage. The drive is so full that i rarely have more than 2 GB available. even seeing 1 is becoming hard. I checked the size of all the areas of the computer and together all the files visible on the Macintosh HD only amount to about 61GB This leaves anywhere between 17-19GB (counting the way they mesure GB) of space that is not accounted for. i understand there are hidden system files and other things that are not visible to the Finder, but this number seems outragous. I was thinking of backing up my entire computer. zeroing out the hardrive and reinstalling the OS and starting from scratch. If i wanted to do this maintaining the same documents files applications preferences and users. what would be the best way?
Help is greatly appreciated.
JaxonK
I have a first generation iMac G5 and it come with 80GB of internal storage. The drive is so full that i rarely have more than 2 GB available. even seeing 1 is becoming hard. I checked the size of all the areas of the computer and together all the files visible on the Macintosh HD only amount to about 61GB This leaves anywhere between 17-19GB (counting the way they mesure GB) of space that is not accounted for. i understand there are hidden system files and other things that are not visible to the Finder, but this number seems outragous. I was thinking of backing up my entire computer. zeroing out the hardrive and reinstalling the OS and starting from scratch. If i wanted to do this maintaining the same documents files applications preferences and users. what would be the best way?
Help is greatly appreciated.
JaxonK