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iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents
Authored by: jcteo on Jan 16, '04 12:15:37PM

I had the exact same experience!

I've even posted a write-up on my website. Here's another tip: NEVER let your boot volume fill up! Lots of weird things can happen! I lost my Mail.app configurations among other things. By the way, does anyone know of a disk space monitor that lives either in the Menu Bar or the Dock? Ideally something small and unobstrusive, just a Green/Yellow/Red status indicator.



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iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents
Authored by: diamondsw on Jan 16, '04 01:31:24PM

I think that is the real problem - any operating system will start having problems when disk space on the boot drive runs out. Thin about it:

1) You run out of swap space
2) Most programs perform a "safe replace" when saving over a file. Write a new file, delete the old one, rename the new file. Running out of disk space will break this on a lot of programs.
3) Preferences will frequently be lost
4) Flat-out directory corruption is *likely* to occur

So go ahead and use "Erase camera contents", but by all means keep some free space on your drive!



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iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents
Authored by: haumann on Jan 16, '04 03:03:23PM

Panther's own Activity Monitor is an application that lets you monitor disk usage, but I'm not sure it's one of the options you can leave in the dock.



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iPhoto 2.0 warning about Erase Camera Contents
Authored by: danbolling on Jan 19, '04 08:59:07PM
Check out this past pick of the week:
MenuMeters - a system monitoring tool
and the associated comments are helpful too.

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