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February 23rd, 2008
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 using an external drive - main drive continues to be used Hi, I went through the LW manual, FAQs, and searched old posts but couldn't find anything specific to my problem. I recenly started using a Lacie 500GB external drive with LW. I have been able to create a "incomplete" folder on my ext drive (with partially downloaded files), and a "shared" folder with files that have finished downloading. In Preferences>Saving>Save folder is set to /Volumes/LaCie A 3/Shared My problems: 1. The empty space on my main internal boot drive is still decreasing when LW is downloading files. How is this happening if the "shared" and "imcomplete" folders are on the ext drive? Can I change any LW settings so that no more internal HD space is taken up? Is the space on my int HD being used as some sort of temporary storage for LW. When I quit LW and shutdown and restart my compputer some of the main drive space has returned but I'd like to make sure that LW doesn't have loads of my drive locked away. There are no longer "shared" and "incomplete" folders on my main drive. 2. The path of the save folder is strange as my ext drive is called "Lacie A" not "Lacie A 3". When I hit browse and bring up the "select folder" window, the drive is still called "Lacie A" and I select the "shared" folder and hit "ok" but I get "Lacie A 3" as a result. I also saw in Preferences>Sharing>Shared Folders has 2 entries: /Volumes/LaCie A 3/Shared /Volumes/LaCie A 1/incomplete Could it be that maybe LW is increasing the name of my drive and it will soon be "Lacie A 4" and "Lacie A 5" etc...? Perhaps it increases the name after I shut down completely and then restart the ext drive? I'm not sure if my two problems are related at all. Could this issue with names somehow result in the main drive being used for downloading? UPDATED INFO: I found that while downloading files on LW, I was using up more space on my main int drive while the amount of free space on my ext drive (with the "incomplete" and "shared" directories) didn't change. I wanted to see if, when a file was finished downloading, the amount of space that it took up on my main drive would shift to my external drive in the "shared" directory but I ran out of room on my int drive because I wasn't sitting infront of my computer while downloading. Any way to remove the partially downloaded files from my main drive would be appreciated as, even though I restarted the computer I only have a few hundred MB of space on my 100GB int drive.) MORE UPDATED INFO: I started up LW and selected all the files in the window and paused everything so that nothing would start downloading. I opened the preferences and saw in the finder that space on my main int drive went from 100MB to 4.2GB!! I'm just happy that the memory is back as you can't do much with 100MB on a drive! Any help would be appreciated. Any help would be much appreciated. I've copied all my system info from System Profiler. I did notice (at the VERY bottom of this info) that "Mount Point" mentions Lacie A 3 Limewire 4.12.11 and Java 1.5.0_13 Machine Name: PowerBook G4 17" Machine Model: PowerBook5,7 CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 1.67 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 1 GB Bus Speed: 167 MHz Boot ROM Version: 4.9.1f1 Serial Number: W851400DRJ3 Sudden Motion Sensor: State: Enabled Version: 1.0 System Version: Mac OS X 10.4.11 (8S165) Kernel Version: Darwin 8.11.0 Boot Volume: Macintosh HD Computer Name: TBPEARCE’s Computer User Name: TBPEARCE (TBPEARCE) FireWire Bus: Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec d2 Quadra (button): Manufacturer: LaCie Model: 0x4136 GUID: 0xD04B7A1107F2C6 Maximum Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec Connection Speed: Up to 800 Mb/sec Sub-units: d2 Quadra (button) Unit: Unit Software Version: 0x484944 Unit Spec ID: 0xD04B d2 Quadra Unit: Unit Software Version: 0x10483 Unit Spec ID: 0x609E Firmware Revision: 0x102 Product Revision Level: 3.AA Sub-units: d2 Quadra SBP-LUN: Capacity: 465.76 GB Removable Media: Yes BSD Name: disk1 OS9 Drivers: No S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported Volumes: LaCie A: Capacity: 465.64 GB Available: 327.95 GB Writable: Yes File System: HFS+ BSD Name: disk1s3 Mount Point: /Volumes/LaCie A 3 Last edited by famous; February 23rd, 2008 at 11:56 AM. Reason: new info  |
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February 24th, 2008
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| The empty space on your main drive may be filling up with Virtual Memory used by Apple or Java. OS X seems to like about 10% free space. 100 MB is too small. Does the space recover after a restart? Leaving LW running for more than a day can easily use up 1 GB of virtual memory. Run Activity Monitor (in the Applications/Utilities Folder) to see the details. |
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