helllllp!

[luciab]

My iMac computer has gone mad. Or maybe it's just gotten mad, I dunno. I've been working in Word, making a document with several pictures in it. I have several of these already made. When I tried to save said document, I got an error message saying there wasn't room on the hard drive to save it; there was likewise not enough room to save it on my 1-gig thumb drive. I have taken several other pages just like this off the thumb drive, so I know they'll fit, but it's still saying no room. I'm also having a hard time believing my hard drive is full. I have never in my life actually had a full hard drive; when I get that message it's a symptom of another problem. The only possible difference is that now I do have lots of music on my hard drive, but then it's nothing that isn't fitting on the iPod, so that shouldn't be it, either.

If anyone is familiar with iMacs and has any ideas, I'd love to hear 'em.

edit: When I try to empty the trash (which shows about 750 items in it) I get messages saying it can't delete this file because it's locked or in use, and it says there are over 30,000 left to be deleted, but they all say that.

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[margaretc.livejournal.com]

Er.
I'd have to see it, but I would probably be able to help if I could.

[luciab.livejournal.com]

How do I tell how much space is left on the HD?

[margaretc.livejournal.com]

Go to the Finder, and open a window. In the left-hand side, you should have something that says XX HD (XX=whatever your HD is named - mine is MACINTOSH)
Make that be blue.
Then, look at the bottom 'sill' of that window, and it will say 8 items, 30.12 GB available (or different numbers, but that's what mine says).