on being a Macintosh neophyte

[iamom]

Much to my chagrin, I ran out of hard drive space on my 100 GB MacBook Pro tonight. And then I remembered that I really had never emptied the Trash folder. I didn't even really know where it was, and Spotlight couldn't tell me, either. Then I noticed the Trash icon in the Dock, so I opened it, and then emptied it, and then... deleted over 2,000 files and freed up 14 GB of data!

Wow. So now I know what happens when you don't empty your Trash for eight months.