Re: disc eating monster

From: Paul Grayson <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:14:16 +0000

Luke Siemaszko wrote:

On my 10.3.9 I have just emptied the Trash
But I se that at root level there is a folder called ".Trashes/501" with a HUGE amount of stuff in it.

What is this, what is the "501" stuff, and is there any more subtle way of removing it apart from "rm -R"??

thanks

501 will be the UID (user ID) of a user. Check NetInfo Manager to find out which of your users is mapped to this number.
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