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TLS1979

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 2, 2010
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London,UK
Hi folks i did a clean installation for lion!

after this i was going to transfer all my data back from a external hard drive!

first time it said something wrong with the backup!

i started it again it stopped with a message hard drive full!

i checked it hat 5 mb left!, i thought maybe a restart solves the problem! nope!

it gave me even a message on the start screen, your startup disk is nearly full!

I checked the hard drive! (i maked all files visible) all my folder together have a size of 25 gb, where are the rest, then you go on the drive , get info, it shots available 5 gb, after clean my mac took of some binary and some languages!!

any one can help me??

i have basic knowledge only! but with a good explanation hopefully we can solve this prob



Before i had total 320gb free 305gb
the data i was going to transfer was around 170 gb,
 
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