Hi Everybody,

First time poster, long time lurker on this excellent forum.

My problem:
I was approaching the disk limit with the amount of music I had put onto the phone so I decided to be a good boy and delete my own custom music folder (which was roughly 15gb) via File manager. The plan then was to just start again transferring over new music.

But, the device doesn't seem to have recognized this. Settings > General > Memory still says I only have 300mb free on 'Nokia N900'.

For what its worth I daily download lots of mp3 data via Gpodder and delete it fully via Gpodder too.

I have a feeling I need to do some wizardry via x-terminal in order to clean up the device in order to tell it that my music folder is now gone.

I have looked through the forum and all discussions close to this seem centered on freeing up space for installable apps.

Any help for what will hopefully be a very quick fix? Thanks in advance.

Deekster.

Reboot the phone and check the free space again.

Or you could try plugging the phone into a PC in Mass Storage mode and check out the file system with your PC's disk checking utilities. Sounds like the file system might be corrupted.

Phone has been rebooted several times - no joy there.

Am on a Mac (10.5.8) so hopefully it doesn't come down to that.

Maybe use http://maemo.org/packages/view/storageusage/ to track down the problem?

jus a guesswork here, try the .Trash folder :S

Thank you Forumites!

A quick install of 'storage usage' revealed that /home/user/MyDocs//.Trashes is currently taking up 24.0 GB of data (Yikes!)


A quick read of this thread revealed that Macs have a habit of keeping all my deleted files on the N900:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=45616

So, I was able to restore all 24GB of free space simply be connecting N900 to my mac and emptying the Trash. That's great.


One final question though, I've attempted to delete this folder directly on the phone via x-terminal.

I must have the syntax wrong as typing this does not work:
rm -R /home/user/MyDocs/.Trashes

However I get "rm: invalid option -- /"

Any ideas?

Didn't know you could get a directory by that name, thanks.

That'll explain it.
Interesting stuff, I'm a Window man and have little knowledge of Macs, good to know that.

Try -r or -d, you might have to be root to do it though. Be careful, there is no undoing it.
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/cmd/cmd.csp?path=r/rm