Disc Usage

I have a 60GB iPod and I'm confused about disc usage. iTunes says that my disc usage is this; Cap 55GB, Audio 28Gb, Photo 171MB, Other 10GB, Free 17GB. OK, my question is this, what is taking up a full 10GB in the other category. I have two games on the thing, that's it. This seems like an excessive amount of space if it's song lyrics, album covers and ratings. I'm assuming the operating system itself is accounted for by the difference between 60GB iPod and disc capacity of 55GB. So what is using all this space?

Restore it to recover the space in Other.
It gets bloated sometimes.
I'm assuming the operating system itself is accounted for by the difference between 60GB iPod and disc capacity of 55GB.
No. The iPod OS takes up ~30MB.
A 60GB iPod is only ~55GB because they are two different numbering systems.
See this -> How much content will fit on my iPod?
"One more thing about iPod disk size
In iPod's About menu, the hard disk size is reported as slightly less than the technical specifications for the iPod. The same is true if you connect iPod to your computer in disk mode to look at the info or properties window for the disk.
Why the difference? Most hard disk manufacturers measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 million bytes (1000 * 1000). A 4 GB disk, therefore, is one that holds 4 billion bytes. Computers, including Windows computers, Macintosh computers and iPod, measure disk size this way: 1 MB = 1 048 576 bytes (1024 * 1024). The difference in these two calculations is what causes the drive to appear as 3.7 GB on a computer, but actually be a 4 billion byte disk."

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In short I have a 480GB SSD by OWC. The audio alone, according to "About This Mac", is over 581.14GB... Something is obviously not adding correctly.
I must admit, I had a couple of iPods that I downloaded music from to a VMware running Mac OS 10.9.4. The host OS is something that I can't mention...
I used the Hudini for Mac on the 10.9.4 WMware OS to unhide the music.
Since I noticed this disc usage inaccuracy. I've deleted most of the music. Because at one point it was showing over 1TB for the audio.
I've also did a command R at start up and ran Disc Permission and Repair.
I also turned off Time Machine, reboot, turned TM back on, reboot. (Someone else had the opposite disc usage and this helped.)
My next thought is to delete the Mac OS 10.9.4 via VMware, as this was where I originally downloaded the music from an iPod. I went through the music and transferred over to the host OS the selection that I wanted to keep. When I Get Info on the music app via Mac OS X ssd ▸ Users ▸ KOT ▸ Music ▸ iTunes ▸ iTunes Media it comes up with a little over 17GB.
Thank you,
KOT

I really wish that I could say that this helped. But it made it worse.
It's now saying that I have 15.6TB of Photos, 4.77TB of Audio, 4.26TB of Movies and 34.6GB of Apps.
I tried it twice. Once when I was using the Mac, then when I saw that it made it worse. I did it again, though I left it in the "Don't spotlight" list, rebooted and finished what I had to do. When I was ready to be done with the computer. I removed it from the list and put the display to sleep. Came back a couple of hours later and found it the same way when I tried it the first time.
Now that the rest of the stuff, such as Photos, Movies and Apps are overly "used". I am beginning to think that it's a Y.... thing for right now.
Thanks for your thought though.
KOT

Toshiba recovery disc usage for Satellite A300-211

i bought my lap last april and after the crash of the system.
I used the recovery disc that i made from the image on the hard disc but it erased all the data in the two partitions.
My question: Is there a way to use the disc to format partition C only without erasing the data on the other partition?

Hi
To start the HDD recovery procedure follow these steps:
- press F8 after powering up the unit
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- in new window choose Toshiba HDD recovery
Now HDD recovery should start up and you should follow the steps on the screen.
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Recovery disc usage with Qosmio notebook

I had someone re-install WXP without the recovery disc and Qosmio engine as I did not have them. Now I am missing things like Bluetooth, the manual for the laptop, as well as other apps and such.
Toshiba mailed me the replacement discs. Now I have them. Do I need to do a whole system reformat-re-install of windows to get my old computer back? I have downloaded the manual tonight but I dont think it addresses this situation as I remember. Nothing on the posts either.
Anyone do this before?
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Hi trvlbum,
It is unlikely (but possible) that the QosmioPlayer Partition was deleted. Try starting the Qosmio by pressing the TV Button on the Panel rather than the big "On" Button.
If you are interested in Media Center, then you will need to reinstall everything from the Recovery DVD because MCE is a whole different Operating System to WXP. All data on the Qosmio will be destroyed. There is no upgrade path (unless you go to Vista Home Premium or Ultimate Upgrade).
If QosmioPlayer doesn't boot, and you would like it, you should install it from the QosmioPlayer CD, then install the OS (MCE plus Apps) using the Recovery DVD.
If you don't want QosmioPlayer or MCE, I would be interested to hear if you are able to install the other Applications and Drivers from the Recovery DVD even though you don't have the original Operating System. Just insert the Recovery DVD and select Install Applications and Drivers... (that's assuming your Recovery DVD has a similar interface to mine. I have a G20.)

Factory rescue and recovery disc usage

I figured I'd ask here before I get very, very angry.
My ThinkPad SL400 has experienced a massive failure. I was able to rescue my documents, etc., but the boot software was corrupted and I needed to do a complete system restore. I didn't have viable rescue and recovery discs and so paid $45 plus shipping to order a set of them from Lenovo. They came with instructions, which I have followed.
Step 9 of their instructions states:
"When all of the data has been copied from the last disc in the set, a message is displayed prompting you to restart the computer. Remove the disc and then click Yes.
Note: The remainder of the recovery process is fuly automated and no action is required by you. the computer will restart into the Windows desktop several times and you might experience periods when no activity is apparent on the screen for several minutes at a time. This is normal."
Unfortunately, that's not what happened. When I rebooted the machine I got a message stating:
8206 - Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key.
I've restarted the machine several times with no different answer. I tried booting from the first two Rescue and Recovery discs they sent and neither worked to complete the boot process. I tried changing the boot device to the hard drive and it didn't work. I called Lenovo Technical Support and they told me that, even though I had JUST PURCHASED the discs, they would not answer my questions about how to use them.
I am feeling very much like I just poured $50+ down a rathole with a company that won't stand behind its products.
Hopefully you guys can give me some suggestions before I call my credit card company and ask them to remove the charge as a fraudulent purchase.

So i guess you selected the optical drive to be the first one to boot in the boot up list?
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

Recurrent corrupt file system of internal hard disc

Hi,
on my MacBook Pro Late 08 I get some file system corruption over and over again. Normaly I would guess having a defect hard disc but I have already tried three different discs. The problem always comes back.
I recognize the corruption by having multiple crashes of several applications (Firefox, iPhoto, iWorks, ....) having some exception type of EXCBADACCESS. This type seams to indicated that something cannot be read correctly anymore. After repairing the disk everything works fine again.
Is it normal that MacOS filesystem is not that stable and gets corrupt from time to time? I cannot find out any reproduction pattern so far.

I have exchanged the original disc to a larger 500GB/7200 2 month after getting the new MacBook. To narrow down the problem I switched to a 500GB/5400 another 6 month later. I always moved with a SuperDuper Backup from disk to another. My disc usage is about 90%.
I tent do believe it has something to do with the power management of the Mac. Between a healthy file system and a corrupt one is always one or more system sleeps.
But the output of the disk utility is also weird. Three successive runs state at the end:
1)
Invalid node structure
The volume MacBookPro internal could not be verified completely.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
2)
The volume MacBookPro internal was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk.
3)
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Or you can download OmniDiskSweeper (free). It will list your disc usage in order of size and you can follow the paths to find individual files or applications.

Dying to buy iMac ... disc scratching issue scaring me off

Hi, tossing this question out here, also have done so in other forums. I need to replace our main desktop computer at home. It's a PC. However, I've used a Mac for about 17 years or so at work, currently a 27-inch 2.66 ghz Intel Core i5 iMac, so I have knowledge of "both universes."
I'm dying to get an iMac for home use, the 21.5-inch model (that will suit my needs at home, don't need a 27). I don't think PCs are crap, I just like Macs better and would like to totally dive into the Mac pool and be in the same universe both at home and on the job. I've been telling my wife, whose only computer experience has been with PCs and has been resistant to make the change, for years that if she ever got her hands on a Mac, she'd never go back, and she's finally amenable to trying.
I've been shopping around and had about decided on a refurb from the Apple Store ... when I came across the issue of the superdrives in iMacs scratching discs. And, on reflection, I think it's happened a few times with my iMac at work. I've brought some personal discs to put things on iTunes and later noticed scratches on the discs, and I'm quite anal about keeping discs in pristine condition.
I know I'm a Luddite in the era of "the cloud," and that probably within a decade or so recordable media like CD-Rs and DVD-Rs are going to be about like VHS. But in the here and now, in my personal computer usage at home, I still do an incredible amount of disc usage and disc burning.
I do to the point where this is scaring me off, because having the drive scratch discs really is a deal killer for me. I've read the stuff at various forums about how you have to take the discs out just a certain way, but the human reality is you're not going to do that 10 times out of 10 (plus other people, including kids, would be using this computer at one point or another and it will be impossible to guarantee that they do it right 10 out of 10 either). I've read about people taping up the slot and using a Dremel to burr the aluminum down, but I'm not inclined to do that to something I'm going to spend so much loot on. I'm also not inclined to spend that much on a computer and plug an external burner drive into it.
This is my question ... this issue apparently was very prevalent on the 2010 iMacs. I've gotten mixed information on whether it was fixed in the 2011 iMacs (most of the refurbs available at the Apple Store are 2011 models). Would I be less prone to have this issue by spending a little extra and buying a new, recent production iMac as opposed to a refurb?
I know I seem to be dwelling on an issue that might be inconsequential to some folks, given the other advantages to a Mac. But again, I use recordable media so much, and some of the things I have on recordable media that I often insert into my computer to do things with are so irreplaceable, to where really any chance of this issue happening is, as I said, a deal killer.
Thanks in advance for any help.

My late 2009 21.5 scratches discs. There's a long thread about this. The sharp rear facing metal edge of the slot seems to be responsible. Even inserting a disc with extreme care, keeping the label side as much as possible towards the front, doesn't always prevent this from happening. But maybe the current models fixed this. Don't know.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2105438?start=0&tstart=0

Same Disc error? (When they are separate internal drives)

Mac G5 with (2) internal drives
HD #1 - Macintosh HD
HD #2 - G5 Backup
Mac OS 10.5.8
I want to backup the Macintosh HD onto the G5 Backup but I'm getting the following error:
http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/timemachine/error.png
I've checked the disc usage and it appears I have enough on the G5 Backup to fit everything from Macintosh HD. I'm puzzled why it says the same disc is being used. These are (2) separate drives, not partitions. These images may help illustrate my architecture:
http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/time_machine/machd.png
http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/time_machine/g5backup.png
Any suggestions? Thank you.
Message was edited by: powermixx

powermixx wrote:
I want to backup the Macintosh HD onto the G5 Backup but I'm getting the following error:
http://powermixx.com/atemp_dir/timemachine/error.png
I've checked the disc usage and it appears I have enough on the G5 Backup to fit everything from Macintosh HD.
Not easily. To back up everything on the 382 GB used on the Macintosh HD volume at once, Time Machine will add 20% "padding" (workspace and in case the estimate is low), to get 458 GB, which won't fit. You can squeeze a backup onto it only by excluding at least 40 GB (so the added 20% will fit), then removing the exclusions and running another backup. But that's not going to leave much space for future backups of either drive.
I'm puzzled why it says the same disc is being used. These are (2) separate drives, not partitions.
It's probably warning you, as it should, about +G5 Bootable's+ backups being on the same drive as it's backups (when that drive fails, as they all do sooner or later, you risk losing everything). But it will do it, if you click +Use Selected Volume.+
Since you can now get 1 TB external drives for about $100, that's your best bet to back up both internals.

Lost hard disc space

Hi,
I recently just realised that i am running out of hard disc space but i cannot understand why. My disc is 150gb and i have 20gb free. when i select my hard disc and check info it says i have used 92gb, but when i go through and check each individual folder on my disk the total only comes to 24gb (all apps, library, music, video, system, users etc).
How can this be?
Is there a program i can use to visually represent where all my disc space has gone to? I remember when i used a pc there was a program that showed hard disc usage as a pie chart.
thanks very much

+How can this be?+
When you use the Get Info command on a folder, invisible files are not included in the total. But they are included in the Get Info sums for the hard disk.
Disk Inventory X (free) will show the size of those invisible files as well. There is also WhatSize (formerly free, not $13 shareware).
Hope this helps...

New system drive and memory setup - please help!

Please excuse these newbie questions. I DO understand that these issues have been discussed ad nauseam in this forum. But I have spent probably ten or twelve hours exploring the various threads, and partly owing to my ignorance, partly to the specifics of my situation, partly to the disagreements between various posters, and partly to my concern that some of the clearer statements on e.g. SSD’s may have been outdated by the progression of technology, I would greatly appreciate it if I could get some recommendations for my specific situation.
I am going to purchase an HP Z820 sometime in the near future. I do NOT want to build my own machine; I have just enough technical knowledge to be dangerous, as they say, and want one-stop shopping for technical support if my machine develops problems.
While I will use this machine for a variety of applications, my main concern is to optimize it for Premiere Pro. Based on Harm Millaard’s (who to my untutored eye seems to be one of the most prolific, knowledgeable, and helpful individuals in this forum) “Guidelines for Disc Usage” of two years ago, I plan to install a 300GB SSD for my boot drive, and to construct a RAID 5 array out of the remaining drives. (The Z820 does not support RAID 3.) The array drives will be either five (5) more 300GB SSD’s, or four (4) 600GB 15,000 RPM SAS HDD’s.
Assume for the sake of argument that cost is not a factor, and that the 1.2TB storage offered by the 5 SSD drives in RAID 5 (vs. the 1.8TB offered by the 4 SAS drives) is perfectly adequate, which would you choose? And why?
I should add that I am a video hobbyist, not a professional, so the outfit will receive a lot less pounding than a professional’s machine. Thus, I don’t THINK that the theoretically more limited life span of the SSD’s should be an issue, over, say, the next 3-4 years. (Correct me if that SHOULD be a concern.)
Re memory, I am planning on 32GB of unbuffered memory, the maximum the system will support. I COULD get 64MB, but it would have to be registered RAM, which I understand slows things down. The slight improvement in reliability with registered RAM is not really a concern from my hobbyist standpoint; and I think 32GB should be adequate. I use 1080/60p footage, which of course is demanding, but don’t use a lot of special effects, or other Adobe applications for input to Premiere (aside from Photoshop, occasionally). Anyone disagree with this choice?
Finally, is there a role for a RAMdisk in this outfit, for e.g. cache files? Would this increase the speed, or decrease the using up of write cycles on the SSD’s to a degree that would be significant for practical purposes? If so, how much RAM would you dedicate to the RAMdisk?
Again, sorry if you feel these questions have been adequately addressed in pervious threads, but try as I might I simply can’t manage to put it together on my own. And thanks in advance for any help.

Pardon me for jumping in. (I realize the question is to Harm.)
I am going to purchase an HP Z820 sometime in the near future.
Congrats, this is a great system.
... I plan to install a 300GB SSD for my boot drive, and to construct a RAID 5 array out of the remaining drives.
The 300GB SSD - is that an HP model? If so please reconsider: it's an older Intel SSD X25-M series that is slow, and runs at SATA 3G speeds (not 6G), which doesn't do the Z820 justice. Intel 520 series has been tested (by yours truly among others) and can be used in the Z820.
The array drives will be either five (5) more 300GB SSD’s, or four (4) 600GB 15,000 RPM SAS HDD’s.
As Harm will probably tell you: unless you also run a database server on that system, there is no advantage to 10K, 15Krpm or even SSD drives for video purposes, with the exception of possible reliability (enterprise class 10-15K drives and SSDs are tested much more extensively than desktop and nearline drives) and throughput in case of SSDs if, for instance, your workflow demands extreme bandwidth (e.g. recording of uncompressed 4K 12-bit RGB signal).
Assume for the sake of argument that cost is not a factor, and that the 1.2TB storage offered by the 5 SSD drives in RAID 5 (vs. the 1.8TB offered by the 4 SAS drives) is perfectly adequate, which would you choose? And why?
Hypothetically, I'd choose SSDs: higher reliability, responsiveness, performance, lower power consumption. I'd do research though to ensure they'd keep up with a lot of write I/Os thrown at them.
In reality, I'd choose neither, for reasons I mentioned above. 7200rpm nearline drives have sufficient performance for the purpose, and the capacity is much higher per dollar.
I COULD get 64MB, but it would have to be registered RAM, which I understand slows things down.
Not necessarily. The 2% difference between ECC and non-ECC memory (negligible as it is) is not at play here because Z820 does not support non-ECC memory. Registered or not, it has to be ECC, and registered memory is not necessarily slower than unbuffered. Even if it was, the 2% difference is unlikely to make any perceptable dent in performance given that no editing system runs its memory at 100% bandwidth at all times. Then again, if cost is not a factor, you could always swap unbuffered for registered later on.
Finally, is there a role for a RAMdisk in this outfit, for e.g. cache files? Would this increase the speed, or decrease the using up of write cycles on the SSD’s to a degree that would be significant for practical purposes? If so, how much RAM would you dedicate to the RAMdisk?
For timelines with limited number of effects, I wouldn't bother, with the premise that Premiere Pro has decent memory management on its own, and that memory will serve better if just given to Premiere Pro.
If on the other hand you do start using AE heavily, you might want to dedicate a (portion of your) SSD to "global performance cache" which is a fantastic time-saving feature of AE CS6.
HTH.

SSD on MacBook Pro 9,2 (13 inches mid 2012)

Hi, I have a brand new MacBook Pro model 9,2 and happy with it. I want to speed up the hard disc usage and considering replace the internal HD with a new SSD.
My question is the following: rather than just get 1 SSD to replace the original Apple HD, if I buy 2 SSD and put 1 to replace the original HD and the second to replace the DVD using an optibay, is still is useful if I need a lot of storage? Also 2 SSD will consume more battery than 1?
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puffo25 wrote:
Hi, I have a brand new MacBook Pro model 9,2 and happy with it. I want to speed up the hard disc usage and considering replace the internal HD with a new SSD...
Since the largest HD in the MBP is 1TB and what you have may be smaller, why not replace the HD with a 1TB SSD to get the speed advantage, and, if you need even more space, put the HD you've removed in an external enclosure which will still be as fast as it can go when using a USB 3.0 connection. And you'll still have your optical drive.

IMac unable to restart after downloading latest software update (including iTunes 11.2)

My system is a mid-2007 iMac (Intel) with latest software updates always promptly installed (OSX Mavericks, etc) and 320 GB internal HD, 4GB Ram.
Today the software updater informed me that an update to iTunes was available and so I allowed it to download the update and then restart the computer. The restart was not successful - the computer display will show the status window progressing as the update is installed and then nears completion, but will freeze at the apparant point of completion and the restart will not complete. I tried restarting several times and it always hangs up and does not complete.
I then ran the Disc Utilities program - first time I ran it, it identified disc problems with the internal HD and proceeded to repair them. Following that I trried to restartt and it ran into the same difficulties and did not restart. Subsequently I ran disc utilities and it reports the internal HD to be fine. I've also tried several times to boot the computer and restore from my Time Machine backups and it will not complete the restore. I do get to the screens where I can select the volume to restore from, the volume to restore to, and so forth. After these efforts were not successful, I finally tried to re-download OSX and do a clean system restore, it progressed nearly to completion and then aborted the system installation without completing.
Since having this problem I've therefore been unable to use the computer in Mac mode. I had just about concluded that my hard disc must be replaced, when I decided to see if I could restart running Windows (bootcamp), and I was able to do that successfully. The hard disc is therefore not damaged, or at least the partition of the hard disc used by Windows is not damaged.
Is my most likely option to replace the hard disc or is there something I can still do, in order to see if the hard disc can be restored using a saved backup, before I replace it?
I have the further complication of finding that the Apple store will not replace the hard disc for my computer because it is over 5 years old. I can probably locate a shop such as Best Buy locally who can do that, or I can simply purchase an external hard disc and use that as my primary hard disc until I either replace the internal hard disc or simply replace the computer. Since it is a 7 year old iMac, it would not be surprising to have to replace the hard disc after this length of time. I also see that there are instructions available online to explain how to replace the internal hard disc myself, but I'm unsure at this point whether or not I want to do it myself.

Lacking any responses to my initial post above, I will briefly update how I resolved this issue today.
Installed new external hard disc, 1 TB WD My Passport for Mac, and straightforward setup involving first installing current OS X operating system, then system migrator utility to rebuild the same setup as saved in latest Time Machine backup. The whole process was somewhat time consuming due to my internet connection speed and USB data transfer speeds but it went without any issues. The computer now boots up and operates identical in all respects to how it did before the problem occurred.
Regarding the internal HD of my iMac, if I now run Disc Utility to verify the disc, it reports "appears to be OK". However, viewing the disc usage in "About This Mac" window, it displays as entirely empty. Opening it in the finder also shows only a "Apple Hot News.mbox" file and a single .jpeg image, and .nothing else.
Interestingly, the Bootcamp partition of my iMac's internal HD continues to work fine and appears unaffected by the problem. I use bootcamp rarely but still will plan to set up a replacement bootcamp volume on the new hard disc soon, in order to take its place.
That the problem surfaced coincident with the software update may have been nothing more than bad luck? At this point I have no reason to suspect that the softward update had anything to do with the difficulties.

Can I disable plugin-container.exe in 20.0.1 and still stream video?

When I try to stream TV shows with Firefox, I receive high Firefox disc usage warnings from my Norton antivirus. I believe this is due to the gigantic plugin-container.exe that Firefox apparently runs the Flash player inside of. When I look at it in Taskmaster plugin-container has been using 150 k + after just a few minutes and continues to go higher the longer I watch. If I continue to watch without doing anything, eventually the video begins to stutter and then stops while the sound keeps playing. My system slows down to the point where it takes 5 min to stop the player after clicking the control, and a half hour for my system to process the commands to shut down Firefox and restart.
I've been able to work around this by putting the AV into extended Silent Mode to save CPU and by closing the browser after each and every episode, then reopening it again. Obviously this isn't an optimal solution.
I tried shutting down plugin-container using the Taskmaster but this also killed my video. When I closed the window and restarted the video, the plug-in-container came back. In this current version of Flash 20.0.1 is there a way to disable it forever that will also allow me to stream video? IE8 didn't play nice with web pages but Firefox isn't playing nice with video streaming. Is there a fix that doesn't involve a new PC?
Hard drive currently has 298 Gig free
5/10/2013, 18:06:35
Machine name: TIGERFLOWER
Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_gdr.130307-0422)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Dimension XPSGEN5
BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A02
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 460MB used, 3476MB available
Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. We know the problem isn't with Flash because I was running it without huge background files or lock-up up while using IE8.
Installing an older version of Flash isn't an option because newer versions resolve some of the memory usage and flickering problem that older Flash versions caused on the new Hulu site. Some sites also require the newest patch and return an error message if an older version is detected.
I'm not sure what protected Flash mode does or doesn't do and hate to mess around with Flash when we already know it's been running without issues on my system using the other browser.
What I DO know is that the problem only started occurring when I made the switch from IE8 to Firefox. This weekend I had it happen again when I only had Firefox open and the Norton AV running out of Silent Mode in the background. Only the Flash thumbnails on the Hulu home page were active, not the Flash player and I started to get slowdown and lose mouse control.
I posted the issue over on the Norton forum also but don't expect a workaround. I think disabling that huge plugin-container file might help. By the time I've watched one video both Firefox and plug-in container are up around 200k each, much,much, much larger than anything else running on my system.
So is disabling plugin-containter still viable? Firefox crashing is never going to happen, if plug-in container freezes up my system first. Continually closing and reopening Firefox as a workaround doesn't seem to be way it was intended to perform.

I have a 160GB Hard Drive in my MBP and use VMWare Fusion and had a 60GB Virtual Machine running Windows XP. Deleted the Virtual Machine and CANNOT find the 60GB space I desperately need! Anybody out there with a similar problem? Help!

I have a 160GB Hard Drive in my MBP and use VMWare Fusion and had a 60GB Virtual Machine running Windows XP. Deleted the Virtual Machine and CANNOT find the 60GB space I desperately need! Anybody out there with a similar problem? Help!

Thanks - Of Course the first thing I checked and did.
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Capacity : 159.18 GB (159,182,127,104 Bytes)
Format : Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Available : 11.47 GB (11,472,896,000 Bytes)
Owners Enabled : Yes Used : 147.71 GB (147,709,231,104 Bytes)
Number of Folders : 139,540 Number of Files : 511,832
Activity Monitor(Disc Usage) shows something quite interesting. Mac HD and Ramanan (Main User) - My hard drive is only 160GB! Would the retired engineer gentleman please note as well. Many thanks. Rams

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