Deleting files from your account
To delete files from your central system account from a SunRay terminal:
- Log in on a SunRay terminal
- Select the 'Home' icon on the desk top or the menu bar (as shown below):
- When the window opens (as shown below) select the file or folder you want
to delete. You can open folders by selecting them, and back out of folders
by selecting 'Back' in the 'Go' menu.
- Delete files by clicking the right mouse button with the file selected
and then selecting 'Delete'. The file will be removed immediately.
You can also drag a file to the Trash can (in the upper left corner of the desktop screen) and delete it later. To empty the Trash can right click on the Trash can and select 'Empty Trash'. Files in the trash are part of your disk space.
There is a Deleting Files from a SunRay web page. This page is a safe way to remove most files or directories since it prevents from deleting files that are needed by the system. This tool will not find the files in your www directory.
Tips for deleting files
Your Mail directory contains all of your mail folders. If you have ever gotten a "mailbox moved" message because your incoming mail box exceeded 2 megebytes, then there will be a file called mbox.<date>, where <date> is the date the mailbox was moved, in your Mail folder. Mail folders can be removed if you are not interested in the mail message contained in them.
Web pages which have been read using Netscape on the SunRays are "cached" in a folder called cache in your .netscape folder. You can drag the entire "cache" and "xover_cache" folder into the trash without hurting anything. To open up hidden folders, such as the folder called ".netscape", select "Show Hidden Objects", under "View".
If you want to see the sizes of your files, select "Set View Options" under the View menu. The size in kilobytes is listed after the modification date.