MAC G4 disc space
jtwhin2 (5 points) | Thu, 2010-02-25 23:05I have learned there are some great disc cleaner programs, Omni Disk Sweeper, OnyX, Delocalizer, etc...
BUT I get a disc too full message when trying to Download these or anything. Help?
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Question 1: Is your disc full?
Click on the drive, use the keyboard command COMMAND-I to get info and see what the capacity is and what's available. If it's full you need to dump some stuff. A good guideline on that is to always keep 10% of the drive open (iow - don't use more than 90% of the total space available).
what are you wanting to achieve with a disc cleaning application? most of these kinds of utilities are unnecessary horsecrap.
Agree 100%. And since we're discussing unnecessary utilities - are you running a file saver program? One like Norton Utilities that claims it can recover trashed files? All they do is prevent the computer from overwriting trashed files - so the computer marks that space as "empty", but Norton prevents it from overwriting the blocks (so - in reality - they're NOT "empty"). Meaning your computer is filling up, but the space counter believes you have open space. Which leads to (what should be) an obvious problem - the drive gets full but the user thinks there is plenty of free space (not unlike yours right now).
In general, leave Norton and the other utility programs to the PC users. They need them. Mac users don't.
none of the programs youve mentioned really do anything anyone really NEEDS anyway. its just adding crap for the sake of adding crap. i can see how that sweeper thing could come in handy for categorizing stuff to trash. but really a LOT of what its going list is soooo small, that its not going to really matter anyway...
if you have really filled your drive. maybe its time to backup and remove some music, photo or video stuff. if you really NEED everything on your drive, you probably NEED to consider a secondary internal or maybe an external drive?
about the only disk maintenance program you'll ever really need on a mac (other than what came with your mac) is maybe disk warrior. and thats really only needed if you are having drive problems.
stay away from all this kind of stuff. norton, spring cleaning, virus protection, yadda yadda, yadda. most of them dont do much of anything useful and some create as much headache as they may solve.
As above...
...What are you trying to do, since the programs you mention do different things - onyx is more maintenance and getting rid of system files than anything else, wheras Omni Disk Sweeper is good for finding big files and getting rid of them [but it's not much better than you doing it yourself, just faster].
In real terms, why on earth are you storing photos/music/etc on your Mac's harddrive ??
The price of HDs is so low, just buy 1Gb HDs and store things on them.
Apart for the lack of money and plug points, the sensible option is for external HDs.