Modern Technology Hates Me!
I just love technology sometimes! Today, whilst working on this documentary film-project thingy I'm currently doing; Premiere (ok, I'm really more of a FinalCut type of guy, but I'm kind of stuck with Premiere on this) suddently told me the disc was full... Well, Finder agreed, 2,1Megs available.
So, next step: “What files are bloating the system?!” Well, of course I looked at my captured files; but no surprises there; my mere 5 minutes of film was not filling up the 70Gig PowerBook...
Then, after about half an hour of Finder-scouting, the break in my investigation: THE OTHER PERSON USING THE MAC! We are two persons using one mac, and the other person's folder was over 50 GIGS!!! Of course, I was glad that I wern't the one filling up the entire HD, but still...
So, I couldn't delete the other persons files; nor could I see how his files (about 20 minutes of video) had grown to be over 50G... The only “foreign” files in the folder were a few temp-files, all measuring zero K.
Ok, I know “Zero K” should've triggerd the nerd in me, since such files doesn't exist... You'd need to have at least a few bytes to store the filename... But, that would be probably be written as zero.
Well, anyways, I figured whatever program created the tempfiles wouldn't need them anymore, and threw them in the bin, for the fun of it.. So, next time I checked the folder info, the size had shrunk drasticly to about 8GB; but of course, the HD was still full (since I hadn't emptied the trash yet).
Ok, I know the latter had to do simply with my stupidity and not the stupudity of technology, but IT'S STILL IRRITATING!!!
(I'm about to perfom the 3 simple steps on the Powerbook by now, except for the fact that it's not really mine... :? ) --------
Then, after about half an hour of Finder-scouting, the break in my investigation: THE OTHER PERSON USING THE MAC! We are two persons using one mac, and the other person's folder was over 50 GIGS!!! Of course, I was glad that I wern't the one filling up the entire HD, but still...
So, I couldn't delete the other persons files; nor could I see how his files (about 20 minutes of video) had grown to be over 50G... The only “foreign” files in the folder were a few temp-files, all measuring zero K.
Ok, I know “Zero K” should've triggerd the nerd in me, since such files doesn't exist... You'd need to have at least a few bytes to store the filename... But, that would be probably be written as zero.
Well, anyways, I figured whatever program created the tempfiles wouldn't need them anymore, and threw them in the bin, for the fun of it.. So, next time I checked the folder info, the size had shrunk drasticly to about 8GB; but of course, the HD was still full (since I hadn't emptied the trash yet).
Ok, I know the latter had to do simply with my stupidity and not the stupudity of technology, but IT'S STILL IRRITATING!!!
(I'm about to perfom the 3 simple steps on the Powerbook by now, except for the fact that it's not really mine... :? ) --------
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