Deleting Logic Files Makes Me Lose Space??

ok so i dont have much space left on my hard drive...but its got increasingly worse due to me deleting stuff so i can frees up space but its actually doing the complete opposite! I only have 1.7 GB left because whenever i send anything to my recycle bin and delete it i watch the hard drive space number on finder decrease....why on earth is this happening?!
cheers
James

Yes, OS X.3 provides the secure empty trash option, but don't worry: it's effect is to mangle the data so the file is unrecoverable — unless you use FBI methods which require priceless equipment. It doesn't encrypt anything in any way, nor does it make extra copies or whatever.
The problem is elsewhere, and it might as well be related to your swap files. As mentioned above, they'll be cleared up whenever you restart the machine anyway. If you doubt this, just look in /private/var/vm/: swap files can grow from a single 64 MB file in the beginning, to multiple 512 MB files, amounting to GigaBytes... And you don't have permission to erase them because they're always in use.
Don't bother: just restart.

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