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- From: des@frogland.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
- Subject: Re: HELP! I can't delete anything!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.132959.22303@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
- Organization: INMOS architecture group
- References: <1992Jul28.184852.156135@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 13:29:58 BST
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- In article <1992Jul28.184852.156135@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, jmp1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JEFFREY MICHAEL PARSONS) writes:
- >I've been running OS/2 for a while and have had no real problems. Recently
- >though, I tried to delete a bunch of files to free up space. I "shredded"
- >their icons and then deleted the files at the command line. To my amazement,
- >there was only a tiny change in my free disk space. I don't have the undelete
- >option enabled. What's going on?!? It's so bad now that the system has
- >slowed to a crawl with only about 3Mb free.
-
- did you delete files or were you deleting objects or even shaddows?
-
- if you try to free up space by, for example, deleting a bunch of the
- applets that you never use you may well find that you merely remove
- the program object that points to the program and leave the underlying
- .exe still on the disk.
-
- remember that not everything you see in WPS is equivalent to
- a file on disk ... objects can be shaddows of other objects, or in
- the case of programs, merely pointers to the program file.
-
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