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If there is plenty of free space, when does the error occur? Right at startup, or after the system's been running for a while?
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...there's no way he's filled the whole hard disk. I refuse to believe it. It's 80 GB and the man uses the computer for solitaire, email, and the occasional Word document. There's something up, I'm not sure what.
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That's what I figured, just wanted to be sure. He may need to run the disk utility to repair the disk, something like that can happen when the file structure gets a little funny.
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No prob. If that isn't it, perhaps our mac gurus can check in and give some more advice. You may want to put that it's for a mac in the title if they don't see it soon. Posts: 5422 | Registered: Dec 2001
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The IMac G5 runs on OS X. Check system preferences and look for the startup disk panel. If there are more than one startup disk available, it might be that one of them is on a small partition.
That sounds unlikely if he just uses it the way you say, but I agree that it isn't likely he's filled up 80GB, unless he's downloading movies or something.
It might also be set for network startup, but if there is no network available it should just go to the main hard drive.
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