About 20 hours ago I fiddled with CCleaner, been using it ever since I used Windows many years back and found the erase free space function which I've not noticed before.
Before clicking it, it did say the cleaning will take a few hours and cannot be stopped until it is completed. I thought it will be literally a few hours.
Turns out I had to leave my mac on overnight because it has not finished yet after that "few hours" and when I woke up this morning, it says "Finished erase on disks0s2 Macintosh HD" but still won't let me close the program.
What is actually happening?
Do I have disk0s3, disk0s4 and so on?
Unlike when I used windows, I've never partitioned my hard drive in mac hence I am not sure what is happening, or what disk0s2 even mean.
Any advise on what should I do now?
Should I just leave it or try to force quit or restart my mac?
I read around some other forums and one said the program ran for 30 hours and is not yet completed, some said when they aborted the program, they are left with a huge chunk of temporary files which are difficult to find. Some ran into problems with their disk space being gobbled up.
I did not have problem with my disk space, it is still the same like when I started launching this free space function.
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Hi,
About 20 hours ago I fiddled with CCleaner, been using it ever since I used Windows many years back and found the erase free space function which I've not noticed before.
Before clicking it, it did say the cleaning will take a few hours and cannot be stopped until it is completed. I thought it will be literally a few hours.
Turns out I had to leave my mac on overnight because it has not finished yet after that "few hours" and when I woke up this morning, it says "Finished erase on disks0s2 Macintosh HD" but still won't let me close the program.
What is actually happening?
Do I have disk0s3, disk0s4 and so on?
Unlike when I used windows, I've never partitioned my hard drive in mac hence I am not sure what is happening, or what disk0s2 even mean.
Any advise on what should I do now?
Should I just leave it or try to force quit or restart my mac?
I read around some other forums and one said the program ran for 30 hours and is not yet completed, some said when they aborted the program, they are left with a huge chunk of temporary files which are difficult to find. Some ran into problems with their disk space being gobbled up.
I did not have problem with my disk space, it is still the same like when I started launching this free space function.
I do not want to leave my mac on for 30 hours!
Thanks a lot!