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From: Conor on 2 Jun 2010 11:32 I've found something my Macbook can do which my Win7 desktop can't. ....Take an hour to empty the trash and use so much CPU power that the base of my Macbook pro gets red thehot, fan comes on full whack and stays on until its finished. I've never ever had the fan come on on my Macbook Pro until this. My Windows 7 computer can't do that.... -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: Jim on 2 Jun 2010 11:52 On 2010-06-02, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >> >> There were only 78 items. In the end I gave up after 10 items had been >> deleted in only an hour, Force Quit Finder and used Onyx to do it which >> took 5 seconds. > > You didn't have to use onyx to do it, command plus option plus shift > plus escape, held down would have managed this. FWIW I agree it sounds odd that it took as long as it did to do as little as it did, but then I don't use the Secure Erase option. I also would have asked about it in a much less schoolboy-ish "nyaah nyaah" tone. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: T i m on 2 Jun 2010 11:51 On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:42:26 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: > >You didn't have to use onyx to do it, command plus option plus shift >plus escape, held down would have managed this. James, Conor isn't an octopus. ;-) T i m
From: James Jolley on 2 Jun 2010 11:58 On 2010-06-02 16:51:04 +0100, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> said: > On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:42:26 +0100, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> > wrote: > >> >> You didn't have to use onyx to do it, command plus option plus shift >> plus escape, held down would have managed this. > > > James, Conor isn't an octopus. ;-) > > T i m See what you mean, but you can do the command option Shift bit with your right hand. It's an odd command granted, but imagine the amount of bloody VoiceOver commands i've had to just get on with and learn.
From: James Jolley on 2 Jun 2010 12:00
On 2010-06-02 16:52:01 +0100, Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> said: > On 2010-06-02, James Jolley <jrjolley(a)me.com> wrote: >>> >>> There were only 78 items. In the end I gave up after 10 items had been >>> deleted in only an hour, Force Quit Finder and used Onyx to do it which >>> took 5 seconds. >> >> You didn't have to use onyx to do it, command plus option plus shift >> plus escape, held down would have managed this. > > FWIW I agree it sounds odd that it took as long as it did to do as little as > it did, but then I don't use the Secure Erase option. > > I also would have asked about it in a much less schoolboy-ish "nyaah nyaah" > tone. > > Jim I bet it took such a long time because of the size of the files. I think the secure empty does what the disk utility does when using secure erase, overwrites the files with 0's. |