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This is really a full disk problem
Authored by: Ockham on Jan 16, '04 11:02:56PM

No offense, but this "hint" should be more along the lines of:

"be sure to leave some space free on your hard disk if you want to save your data."

Although this is an unexpected side effect with iPhoto it is certainly not unusual to have a whole slew of problems with a full disk, especially a system disk with swap files.



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This is really a full disk problem
Authored by: corradokid on Jan 17, '04 04:05:33AM

Not only just to save your pictures, but OS X needs at least 1GB free space for swap files and other maintenance it performs. Jaguar would begin to corrupt preference files when disk space ran out, but Panther may throw up a warning when space gets low.



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This is really a full disk problem
Authored by: stnihXsocam on Jan 18, '04 03:09:19PM

I would agree - I was on vacation and let my PowerBook get to the point where I actually got the dialog "Disk is full" and had all sorts of problems with iPhoto, burning CD's, etc. I was going to burn an iPhoto archive DVD, but I couldn't do that because there wasn't enough room to set up the disc image before the burn! Luckily, I happened to be carrying a 20Gig hard drive in my pocket - man that Firewire mode on the iPod really came to the rescue. Deleted some tunes, offloaded about 7 Gigs of photos and iMovies, and I was back in business. The bottom line - DO NOT let your boot disc get full!



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