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81.7 vs. 25.7 MB
Authored by: spaminacan on Feb 04, '04 12:27:20PM

Wow! My local iDisk indicates 25.7 MB of use while the preference pane/manually mounted iDisk indicates 81.7 MB used. When I follow the steps in this hint I find no files with .fstemp in their name, but two other files do show up. This is what I see:

total 8
drwxrwxrwx 1 unknown unknown 2048 4 Feb 11:53 .
drwxrwxrwx 1 unknown unknown 2048 23 Oct 02:03 ..

Should I delete these? Are they my problem? If so, HOW do I delete them? If they are not the problem, what should I do next to find it? Sorry for these noob questions but I am completely unfamiliar with the terminal. Thanks.



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81.7 vs. 25.7 MB
Authored by: restiffbard on Feb 04, '04 02:58:11PM

Just to clarify for you.

. is the folder that you are in
.. is the folder above the folder you are in.

so if you type "cd ." then you'll just change directory to the directory your in.

if you were to type "cd .." then you'll change to the directory above the one you're in.

Just to make it simple for ya. Unix considers everything a file. Devices are files. Folders are files. Everything is a file.

So, now ya know. :)



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