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Deleting large files
Authored by: Makosuke on Oct 19, '07 04:58:23PM

This hint may well be useful to some people, but the problem isn't as simple as "not enough free space on drive + Journaling" or "not enough RAM" -- I've deleted files larger than the total installed RAM on a journaled system with less free space than the file size many times without issue.

In fact, I can't think of ANY time I've had an issue deleting a large file, and I routinely move around multi-gigabyte disk images or raw video.

Probably better phrased as "If you get a panic trying to delete a large file from the Finder, try this..."



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Deleting large files
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 19, '07 05:31:02PM

Agreed. This is more likely to do with an unchecked disk.

* boot into single user mode (command-S)
* follow the prompts or type fsck -yf; exit; exit
* delete the file



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