This is a quick little program to calculate the amount of space that is wasted do to the current size of your hard disk’s allocation block. Apple currently uses a fixed volume bit map, which means your disk is a like a pie, that can only be divided into a certain number of pieces (about 65,000). The bigger the pie (your hard disk) the bigger the pieces. Unfortunately this means that on large drives, a small file can take up a large amount of space.
To determine the amount of wasted space on your hard disk, run the program. The first dialog lets you select the disk drive you want to examine. Once you click start the program will then go about it’s business of examining your disk. This can take a few minutes, but the program will run fine in the background (under Multifinder or System 7.0 or greater), so you can go about your work. WASTED will notify you when it is finished.
To abort the program just type “command - period” (the keys, not the sentence). When the program is finished it will display the results. The results of the calculations are also stored on the clipboard, so you can paste them into any document you want (like your letter to Apple asking them to revamp the system :)
This program is free, compliments of Kane Biomedical Systems. It is not to be distributed by any vendor who charges for the program or distribution fees without the express permission of the author. The program can be freely distributed by non-profit groups (with the above limitations), but must include this document. Copyright 1991, Jeffrey Kane, MD. All rights reserved.
No warrantee, express or implied is given. Use at your own risk and remember... you get what you pay for ; )
