New user and I keep getting an error message "disk full"

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Thalia Hamdi
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New user and I keep getting an error message "disk full"

Post by Thalia Hamdi » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:30 am

Hello, I am attempting to load a song in to the program edit but I am having a problem. I have been able to load others from my itunes library, but I cannot load this song. It is only 7 minutes long, so I do not know why it is saying full as is rambles on at the bottom with recording time left. I do not have another song open at the moment that I am working on, only this one. And it does load, but continues to have an error pop up window

Please help! Thank you

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Re: New user and I keep getting an error message "disk full"

Post by kozikowski » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:21 am

Your System Drive may be full. Programs will start acting wacky as your System Drive fills up.

Close everything.

Click once on your desktop. From the upper menu bar, Go > Computer

The second icon after Network ball icon is your System Drive. Click on it once, then in the menu bar again, File > Get Info.

There are two numbers you need to pay attention to, Capacity and Available. Mine say 74 GB and 35 GB. In my case, I would worry if my Available got down to about 7. Take the Capacity and move the point to the left once. Your 100 Capacity should never get below 10 available. Your 50 drive should never fall below 5.

What are your two numbers?

Koz

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