Cancelled ARD Copy Caused Lost Disk Space

Hello,
I was using ARD 3.1 to copy a 6 GB file from a workstation to my computer. About 2/3 the way through, I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my drive so I cancelled the copy.
It appears that my drive now has 5GB less free space than before I started the copy job.
Does anybody know how to reclaim this lost space?
Various   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

I had the same problem. You can find the lost space here:
/Library/Application Support/Apple/Remote Desktop/Client/Tasks
you can run the following command to free the space:
rm -rf /Library/Application Support/Apple/Remote Desktop/Client/Tasks

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