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My HD got full very quickly. I have a 750gb disk and allready sitting at 618gb. When I looked at the hard drive, I noticed that there is a folder with the same name Macintosh HD within the root when I look at my disk. It looks strange and it could be that I copied the hard disk onto itself. the folder was last modified more than a week ago.
It is possible (as a new Mac user that I did that but I don't just delete the folder because I don't know whether it is good or bad in MAC.
Please put my mind at ease...I don't just want to delete it. Would Mac allow me to delete a drive, probably not.

JGP
Do you mean when you open finder that you see Macintosh HD in the sidebar? Or are you seeing the Macintosh HD icon on your desktop? Is it showing 618GB as being used? when you open the Macintosh HD you will see folders named System, Library, Applications, Users etc ...I think if you copied the HD in that folder you would know it as it would take an extremely long time to copy 618 gigs worth of data. I wouldn't delete the Macintosh HD. look around and see if you have duplicate data, applications and the like. Hope this helps.
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