Hard drive says it;s full to capicity,but 38G left?

[matt06]

I have a 867mhz powermac G4,1GB sdram,76.4GbHD,osx 10.4.7. The problem is when I go to dump my photo's onto my desktop from my card reader, it's says I have 'nt got enough space left on my hard drive. I go to info on the drive nad it tells me i have 38GB left and 37 used in all I have 76.4 Gb. Then I repair the permissions do a mac janitor clean and sometimes it will work.

I have restarted and then it won't work. I then start to put anything I can onto my External drive 300GB maxtor one touch and then it works. Now Itunes is saying it can't download a certain program because the disk is full? What is going on here? If anyone has some insight? matt

 

[Ric]

Hi there Matt and welcome !

what happens if you try and copy the files to the hard drive and not the Desktop ?

Does it give the same results ?

It certainly sounds like a Permisions problem...

Try booting from your Tiger DVD and doing a Repair Disk and then a Repair Permissions...it works better this way.

regards

Ric

 

[matt06]

I just moved the files directley to the hard drive and not the desk top and it worked fine. Why is this? thanks Ric

 

[Ric]

Well, it's an easy way of checking Permissions...

The Permissions for your Desktop folder must be incorrect.

Have you tried repaing permissions whilst booting from the DVD ?

regards

Ric