'The disk is full trying to write to Macintosh HD' - why?! please help

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'The disk is full trying to write to Macintosh HD' - why?! please help

My mac iBook G4 keeps giving me the message 'the disk is full trying to write to Macintosh HD, please try to free some space or select another disk'. But I have 17 GB of free space on my harddrive! I have run the 'control and repair disk' application from 'Disk tools', and it said the unit (harddrive) seemed to be ok. I also ran the application 'repair disk permissions' and it said it was fine and repaired. But I am STILL not able to save a simple word office document, due to the same message reg. the full disk space. What is wrong? What can I do? PLEASE help me!!
Best regards Julie

iBook G4

Posted on Apr 30, 2008 3:13 AM

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Answer 1

Duane

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Apr 30, 2008 1:27 PM in response to JulesZ

JulesZ, Welcome to the discussion area!

FYI, this is the discussion area for the much older iBook G3 clamshells.

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JulesZ Author

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May 1, 2008 2:31 PM in response to Duane

Thank you! It was a small war to find out even how to post a question, so I guess in the moment I overlooked the fact that I posted to the wrong forum 🙂. But the problem have been solved by a friend who experienced the same problem. It seemed that there was one Microsoft Equation (out of the many in the document) that was malfunctioning. So by deleeting excactly the right equation, the problem was solved.

Hope that helps someone later on.

Best regards

Jules

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