Where is my "local disk" space?

I've been using a PC for over 15 years and I just got my PowerBook and I feel like a complete computer dummy. I'm trying to install a game and I keep getting an error message that doesn't make sense. It says it "requires at least 1MB of free disk space. Free up some space on your local disk and then re-launch..." I have way more space than that so what am I doing wrong?

Hi Roxanne
Some applications do come in an installer package while others do not, and you will be seeing the application itself on the CD folder window. In the latter case you just drag and drop the application into your applications folder, as the previous poster explained. The app/game will be copied across. You can then eject the CD. Run the app/game by double-clicking it in the applications folder.
For apps you run regularly you can place their icon in the Dock by just dragging their app icon from the applications folder to where you like in the Dock.
Matthew Whiting

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The application needs to room to expand when you download and install it. The iOS is telling you that you are cutting it too close.
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woodyardae wrote:
If this is a temp file issue I would love to know where I can find these and get rid of them or perhaps a setting that I could change so that they are dumped more frequently automatically.
Temp files created by Lightroom are cleaned up by Lightroom, or should be anyway.
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I am evaluating Oracle VM. We have some servers with local 15000rpm hdds. We also would like to use a SAN. Is it >possible to have some domu in local hard disks and some in SAN?you can have some domu in local and some in SAN. But domu from local cannot be migrated to other server. In case of SAN you can migrate to other servers.
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You may need to empty your trash.
OS X Mountain Lion: Remove files and folders from your computer
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10628
If the trash has been emptied, it may be that your Macintosh HD requires repair.
Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1782
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Capacity: 74.21 GB
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Developer: 160kB
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OK, So I dl'd that and ran it and it only showed an additional swap file directory called "Private" that had about 3 gigs, still about 27 gig's missing.....
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nice program but still wondering where my hard drive space has gone.....
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Around 4GB has been used and remaining 246 GB is left as free space.
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You can? You've used every conceivable BIOS out there? You must really be full of yourself. There is absolutely no BIOS that I know of that gives this basic function. BIOSs do not "hard partition" anything. A "BIOS" is not made for such things. Do you even know what "BIOS" stands for?
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You maybe speaking of a RAID "BIOS" but you obviously think you're not. Some motherboards have integrated RAID abilities. Intel RST comes to mind... BUT this isn't a feature of a MOTHERBOARD BIOS.
I've got some $50,000 servers that will not break a single hard drive up into multiple logical drives..... Now, I haven't worked on a "Stinkpad" for many years. Don't want to. However, I have never seen one that would do what you're saying you're doing.
You maybe trying to help.... but you're leading people down a wrong path.
Its just as easy to run virtual box and use the virtual box templates for Oracle VM. In fact, its more practical if you want to run Oracle VM on a laptop for testing purposes than blowing everything away and attempting to setup different LUNS on a single hard drive.
For your review...
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/configure-vm-templates-1656261.html
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Time Machine in Lion (10.7.2) stores local backups of files on your laptop's hard drive when it is not connected to an external Time Machine backup drive. See this article for more information.
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The article that you linked to gives the rationale for this:
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