Re: file clean

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From: Sherwood Botsford
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 00:29

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R.S. Etheredge writes
> Howdee,
> When using Mathematica, the other day, I got some disc  
space encumbered. I  
> thought that I could click once on the Mma application  
icon, and get the  
> directory up, and just drag those nasty files into the  
recycler. But there  
> are no files show up by clicking once on the Mma app. I  
need to clear this  
> junk off the real estate! How do I do it???
> Thank you, and have a happy day...
> Rusty Etheredge

Reboot.
Mma is notorious for expanding the swapfile.    The only  
way to shrink the swapfile is rebooting.

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