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Article #646Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!!
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:23
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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith,comp.os.ms-windows.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: HELP! Lost HD Memory!!!!! Message-ID: <1992Nov17.172337.22039@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc References: <1992Nov16.074439.25854@athena.mit.edu> <Michel.Davidoff.154.0@sonoma.edu> <1992Nov17.005132.19439@athena.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:23:37 GMT Lines: 37