Account deleted cannot access moved folders! HELLLPPP!!!

Question

hi!
i had multiple user accounts, and since my mac is running out of memory i decided to delete the ones that i didnt need so i transferred all my folders and pictures to one account and deleted the old account right after. and now i cannot access any of the folders that i moved to the new account they have a red dot with a "-" sign on them.
the old account is gone so i cannot really go back to it and do some changes to it so that i could access them publicly. pleeaassee HELLLPP!!!!!

Answer 1

katrinagarcia wrote:
hi!
since my mac is running out of memory
Monolingual is a program for removing unnecessary language resources from Mac OS X,in order to reclaim several hundred megabytes of disk space. It requires at least Mac OS X 10.3.9 (Panther) and also works on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). It worked for me on 10.4
http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
A detailed write-up on how to use Monolingual:
http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/monolingual.html
These pages have some hints on freeing up space:
http://thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html
WhatSize is a simple tool that allows the user to quickly measure the size in bytes of a given folder and all subfolders and files within it. You would be surprised at to how many useless files might be laying around on your hard disks. The files and folders are automatically sorted by size, with the biggest sizes first. Note: WhatSize displays only files accessible by the current user. See:
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13006/
Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".
http://www.derlien.com/
Yasu is a “Universal Binary” Macintosh utility that performs maintenance routines and clears the many cache files used by OS X. Yasu was designed to be a simple, first line of attack for a workstation that has started “acting up.” More often than not, a thorough purge of the cache files of a Mac will bring its behavior back into line.
http://jimmitchell.org/projects/yasu/
OnyX allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Expose, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, and more.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20070
You can use the terminal find command enter below to display all files greater then 25meg.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
sudo find -x / -size +51200 -exec ls -lh {} \;
I assume that you have logged on as an administrator. Enter your logon password.
The -x / combination says to search all files on the startup partition. The +51200 says to select all files greater than 51200 blocks of 512 length which is 25meg. The -exec indicates which comman to run on a selected file. The {} is the filename of the selected file.