I have Macbook with a 120GB hard-drive, OS 10.4 Tiger, 2GB RAM, 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
I am really in dire need of help.
I have had this macbook since october and for a couple of months it was great. Then it started causing me grief.
I have had to have the hard-drive replaced twice and lost all of my data about 5 times now.
My macbook is now telling me i am running low on diskspace and that i need to free up more space on the disk. This is exremely odd because i haven't had it back that long since the hard-drive was replaced by Apple (about a month).
I am aware that a 120GB hard-drive only has 111GB of useable space, however, out of that 111GB, it says that 107.09GB is 'used' and that i have less than 5GB available. 😱
I have serached though all of my folders multiple times to look for duplicate files and emptied my trash more times than i can count, deleting anything i do not use.
My iTunes library now consists of 8GB of music and 6 GB of video, whereas it used to have 14GB of music and nearly 40GB of video. I have no documents and approximately 10 pictures. I have Microsoft Office installed however this never caused hard disk problems when it was running on the system previously so i doubt this is the root cause of the problem.
I am utterly bewildered as to where on earth all this space has gone and what is taking it up. 😕
It is becoming a very large problem now as i am an A-level student and my work is unable to be saved to the hard-drive due to lack of space, resulting in a couple of debates with tutors about missing work :/
I hope i have provided enough information, but if not please tell me and i will try my best to inform you.
Does anyone have any ideas or know exactly what my problem is? I am desperate for all of my music and movies back on my Macbook 🙁
Thanks in advance
Jack
I am really in dire need of help.
I have had this macbook since october and for a couple of months it was great. Then it started causing me grief.
I have had to have the hard-drive replaced twice and lost all of my data about 5 times now.
My macbook is now telling me i am running low on diskspace and that i need to free up more space on the disk. This is exremely odd because i haven't had it back that long since the hard-drive was replaced by Apple (about a month).
I am aware that a 120GB hard-drive only has 111GB of useable space, however, out of that 111GB, it says that 107.09GB is 'used' and that i have less than 5GB available. 😱
I have serached though all of my folders multiple times to look for duplicate files and emptied my trash more times than i can count, deleting anything i do not use.
My iTunes library now consists of 8GB of music and 6 GB of video, whereas it used to have 14GB of music and nearly 40GB of video. I have no documents and approximately 10 pictures. I have Microsoft Office installed however this never caused hard disk problems when it was running on the system previously so i doubt this is the root cause of the problem.
I am utterly bewildered as to where on earth all this space has gone and what is taking it up. 😕
It is becoming a very large problem now as i am an A-level student and my work is unable to be saved to the hard-drive due to lack of space, resulting in a couple of debates with tutors about missing work :/
I hope i have provided enough information, but if not please tell me and i will try my best to inform you.
Does anyone have any ideas or know exactly what my problem is? I am desperate for all of my music and movies back on my Macbook 🙁
Thanks in advance
Jack
