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Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!

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From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:23
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In <1992Nov17.005132.19439@athena.mit.edu> cid@athena.mit.edu (Derek H Cedillo) writes:



>Ok, 
>maybe I should clear up a few things.
>I have done a chkdsk to make sure
>everything is OK.
>I forgot about the hidden files, 
>it says I have about 8 megs of them.
>Isnt this a bit much?

That rather depends on what they are.

>Im mostly an applications kinda guy, so I dont know
>much about configuration deals.  Sorry.

Well, since it's almost assuredly an application causing this, does
that mean you don't need any more help?  :-)

>When I meant memory, I was meaning HD bytes available for
>storage.  
>For one thing, I had at least 3.5 Megs free about a week ago,
>and the next thing I know I only have the 385K free.
>I just dont know where it went.  I was thinking something 
>along the lines of backups screwing things up or something.
>Does windows do this?  Thanks a million! 

There are so many things it could be that it's useless to try to
speculate.  I don't suppose you could give us the NAMES of that 8 MB
of hidden files you have?

-- 
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
 in the real world."   -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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