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fic tech frustration
Dec. 16th, 2010 09:00 amSo last night I wanted to post my Haiti Orli/Dom fic for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
msilverstar! I could tinker with it for weeks but I thought: this is 11 months late; this is the first fic I've finished in almost 2 years; just get it out there.
However, my computer boycotted me! I tried to revise the fic: I was told 'your start-up disk is full'. I deleted applications and files; still I was told 'you cannot save this file, your start-up disk is full'. I clawed at the screen to no avail. So I pasted the whole thing into an eye-locked LJ post (so that somehow something would be saved) and stumbled on off to bed.
Now what? I remember a few years ago I moved all of my SGA movies onto a usb stick. *stares at Verbotene Liebe clips and weeps*
But really, techsavvy people: is there a quick fix to this? I have an iBook MacOs 10.4.11. The Activity Monitor informs me that I have 'space utilized: 55.31 GB' and 'space free: 466.04 MB'. (Hm, an improvement over last night when it said 'space free: 0'. Sometimes just turning kit off and letting it have a good night's rest will do wonders, it appears.)
I keep trying to find big, big unwanted files to delete and spotted something called Entourage Daemon. At least I think that's what it was called as I have now trashed it and emptied the trash. Marble Blast had to go but how can I delete the Sims or Second Life or all my film clips or my fics or the draft of my book??? Meep.
msilverstar! I could tinker with it for weeks but I thought: this is 11 months late; this is the first fic I've finished in almost 2 years; just get it out there.However, my computer boycotted me! I tried to revise the fic: I was told 'your start-up disk is full'. I deleted applications and files; still I was told 'you cannot save this file, your start-up disk is full'. I clawed at the screen to no avail. So I pasted the whole thing into an eye-locked LJ post (so that somehow something would be saved) and stumbled on off to bed.
Now what? I remember a few years ago I moved all of my SGA movies onto a usb stick. *stares at Verbotene Liebe clips and weeps*
But really, techsavvy people: is there a quick fix to this? I have an iBook MacOs 10.4.11. The Activity Monitor informs me that I have 'space utilized: 55.31 GB' and 'space free: 466.04 MB'. (Hm, an improvement over last night when it said 'space free: 0'. Sometimes just turning kit off and letting it have a good night's rest will do wonders, it appears.)
I keep trying to find big, big unwanted files to delete and spotted something called Entourage Daemon. At least I think that's what it was called as I have now trashed it and emptied the trash. Marble Blast had to go but how can I delete the Sims or Second Life or all my film clips or my fics or the draft of my book??? Meep.