lol.. that sounded ironic

It's to fix broken packages.. but would probably not help you here. But i was thinking it was worth a try. Have never seen this problem before.

ironic huh hmmm was just trying to be as nice as possible because I like this forum. the people actually want to help you, so I always try to be pleasant in return. I'll give the command and let you know.

Hey Man! I think it worked I no longer get the "auto installer broke something which should never happen message" unfortunately it was not because of the command you have me AlMehdi I just uninstalled Geweled and no messages with exclamation marks in the app man log. Thanks guys

My only issue now is how did all those apps I installed took up all that room. The biggest files I have installed are Angry Birds, Tower Bloxx (free), Zen Bound (also free) and Brain Evolution but they seriously can't take up 1.2gigs, and in my "opt" folder. And in my "opt" folder I'm seeing a folder "themes" with files from themes I un-installed before and also from "faster app man" some cache files that take up 7megs. the list goes on on stuff just in there for no purpose and I can't delete them with cute explorer

Try Filebox instead.. it's the new diva of filemanagers

If you have bash installed this would tell you which you 20 biggest files are:

du -a / | sort -nr | head -n 20

Filebox is still in development I don't want to install it, I used storage usage and the tree view helps me see what the biggest files are already.

hmm.. ok. You could use "ls -laS /", "ls -laS /home/user" or "ls -laS /home/opt"to se your biggest folder/file in different locations. I am not aware how good Storage usage work.

And then use "rm -r" to remove them. You need to be root to do that. But be careful.. if you write wrong you could remove files you didn't want to remove.

BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ ls -laS /home/opt
drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Sep 27 11:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 user users 4096 Dec 31 1999 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 18 00:40 BatteryGraph
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 13 12:12 appdownloader
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 01:53 autodisconnect
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 12 12:15 bounce
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 10 18:20 classicprint
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 18 23:07 fapman-cache
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:07 fapn
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Sep 13 13:41 fmradio
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 16 01:08 healthcheck
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 10 03:22 hermes
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 16 01:02 impuzzle
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 11 14:11 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 9 01:22 maemo
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Sep 26 07:10 mediabox
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 12:39 mirror
drwxr-xr-x 3 user users 4096 Sep 9 10:51 offscr-airport
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 Sep 12 13:19 offscr-coin-toss
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 Sep 24 14:43 offscr-counter
drwxr-xr-x 3 user users 4096 Sep 9 10:11 offscr-cube
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 Sep 10 23:58 offscr-electric-beams
drwxr-xr-x 3 user users 4096 Sep 13 02:48 offscr-elements
drwxr-xr-x 4 user users 4096 Sep 10 02:38 offscr-labyrinth-lite
drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 Sep 10 18:25 offscr-level
drwxr-xr-x 3 user users 4096 Sep 15 08:40 offscr-xploder
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 17 01:09 oneup
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 9 00:54 opera
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 10 03:22 pymaemo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 9 14:22 rovio
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 15 15:21 secretexit
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Sep 9 09:57 spbbrainevolution
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 11 21:32 storageusage
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 16 00:55 tecnoballz
drwxr-xr-x 8 501 staff 4096 Sep 23 20:19 themes
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Dec 31 1999 usr
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Dec 31 1999 var
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 12 12:46 wifi-assistant
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Sep 18 00:32 witter
~ $

for me this list isn't straigh forward so after entering "rm -r" what would I have to do? I'm guessing I'll have to type in the file/folder name in which case is it ok if I use the names I see in CuteExplorer? e.g. in my opt there's a folder called "themes" with themes i downloaded from Ovi but umimstalled, so if it is I'm asked for a folder or file name then just type in "themes". I would enter the command and see for myself but I'm trying to be very cautious.

thank you for your patience

That was pretty strange... it says the owner is 501 and group staff. When it should be root. Maybe cause you installed them from Ovi..

However.. to remove them all you would need to write
1. sudo gainroot
2. rm -r /home/opt/themes

But be very careful about your spelling. "rm -r /" would wipe everything on your n900. If you do not want to remove all the themes from the themes folder. Then you will have to look inside and change #2 to that folder.

in "themes" there are other folders named after the themes I installed so will that mean the command I enter will be "rm -r /home/opt/themes/sunset" if sunset is one of the folders in the "themes" folder? I think I'm getting the hang of this stuff

Yep, that is correct.. and if you have notised the "tab" key in the footer of terminal. It will complete words.. i.e. if you start writing "rm -r /home/opt/themes/sun[tab]" it will finish the word. If it gives you nothing you could double tab (it could be more than one word starting with "sun"). If you write "rm -r /home/opt/[tab][tab]" it will show what's in that folder. That way you can make sure you do not misspell anything.

rm = for singular file or files in a folder
rm -r = recursively remove all that is below the folder (i.e. if you want it to remove all files and subfolders).