The birds are singing, the flowers are going nuts, and it's time for the old mop and bucket to come out. Yes, faithful readers, we have entered the spring-cleaning season.
Many people confuse computer memory with hard disk space.
Some of you may have 16Mb or less, but most people now have at least 32Mb or 64Mb, or even 128Mb or 256Mb of RAM installed. The hard drive is nothing more than a storage facility. Macs started with little, itsy bitsy, teeny-weeny, hard drives that at the time were considered huge. Many of us have folders wherein we save our stuff to keep things orderly, but our hard drives don't understand that we have brightly color-coordinated folders listed in alphabetical order. When you save something, the computer just looks for the nearest available spot on the hard drive, and tells the Desktop file where to look for it later.