Did you stop it? I hope not..
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-desktops/253065-erase-free-space.html#post1308210
At this point, not without Terminal I suspect. Bounce and die seems odd/wrong.
Its the one in Applications > Utilities right?
.. but dinner time now sorry Will check back later if no one else has jumped in.
At this point, not without Terminal I suspect. Bounce and die seems odd/wrong.
Its the one in Applications > Utilities right?
.. but dinner time now sorry Will check back later if no one else has jumped in.
He doesn't have admin rights to the machine. I guess that's why Terminal is giving him issues? My root is also marked as - too on my MBP though...
Let's try to figure out why the Terminal you have doesn't open first.Is there any terminal software I can download?
Let's try to figure out why the Terminal you have doesn't open first.
Have you tried to close all open Applications and then
Log Out (Shift + Cmd + Q) and Login.
or
a complete Shut Down and restart of your computer?
Since you'll eventually want to use sudo anyway to remove the sparseimage(s) you may as well log into an Admin account if you normally run your Mac as a Standard User. If there are different users on your computer trying to start Terminal in a different user account may also work. If it does that could indicate that there is something wrong with something like the Terminal Preference file in the Library of the Home Folder of your daily account.
Since you're using 10.4.11 that Library folder should be visible and you can move the com.apple.Terminal.plist file from the Preferences folder inside to the trash. Then restart you computer. A new .plist will be recreated when you restart your computer and try to open Terminal again.
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Terminal.plist
Does Terminal open after trying any of these suggestions?
Hope you don't mind me asking but are you sure you checked the correct Library? Can you make sure the Terminal.plist file is not in the Library of your Home folder by using the Go menu and pasting ~/Library/Preferences/ in the Go To Folder box?
Can you check the file in the Trash with cmd+i to make sure that it isn't locked and see if you actually have permission to delete it from Trash? Especially with a non-functional Terminal it would be a pain to get something like that stuck in there, imo.
Give at go and see what happens. Maybe use Option Click to empty the Trash.Yes! I checked there along with other Preference files. And I'm positive this is the file I want. It has the exact amount of GB I lost and there was no lock symbol on it!
In the comments in the recovery post I linked to, one person did find the file in the trash but was quite emphatic about NOT using the secure option to empty the trash. Just empty it normally. If you still want to erase the free space (why? if you don't mind me asking) then do what you did before, just don't interrupt it