help with new powerbook

hauser gabone · Post by **hauser gabone** » Sat May 27, 2006 2:02 pm

fellow tapeopers,
i just got a new (refurbed) powerbook g4 1.67 with 512 ram and its running slowly. it has 80 gigs. the OS occupies about 5 gigs, and i loaded 20 gigs of music...but somehow i only have 20 gigs of space left..now, i have plans to get an external but i need to figure out why ive lost so much space.
i would like to know if there are any programs that can tell me how my resources are being used and if anyone had any suggestions on how to make my PB run more efficiently. oh, i use digital performer too (i havent tracked with it yet though)
thanks

joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo · Post by **joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo** » Sat May 27, 2006 5:13 pm

Maybe its iTunes making duplicates of your music. I often times will take a DVD of mp3s i've backed up and copy them to my Desktop in a hurry rather then importing via iTunes. Then when I add them to iTunes later it copies them a second time to ~/Music/iTunes Music if I forgot to turn off that option in the program preferences.

Osumosan · Post by **Osumosan** » Sat May 27, 2006 8:27 pm

Check this cool utility out. It'll tell you what's going on on your HD:

http://www.derlien.com

hauser gabone · Post by **hauser gabone** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:23 pm

oh awesome...sweet application...thanks on both replies....im going through my itunes now...tons of dupes!

Rigsby · Post by **Rigsby** » Sun May 28, 2006 10:11 pm

Yeah, that screwed me for a while. Going through old CD-Rs..hmm, what's this? ..play it in itunes and get a dupe of something i never need to hear again, over and over again.

vsr600 · Post by **vsr600** » Mon May 29, 2006 7:42 pm

Osumosan wrote:Check this cool utility out. It'll tell you what's going on on your HD:

http://www.derlien.com

wow I like this thing, thanks!
It let me know I had 40 gigs of duplicate copies of sessions I put in a folder and forgot about hehe...

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