Time Capsule available disk space...

I run TM on a 2tb TC. In the TM pane, "Available:", no longer shows the amount of disk space available, it just shows, "--". I recently upgraded the TC and that's when I think it started...but I'm not positive. Any clues?
Thanks!

This may be a development with Lion. Do you run TM from a partition on your machine Hard Drive or do you use an external HD.
I use a Lacie external HD and when I go to preferences, it shows the amount of available space left. I've yet to progress to Lion though (waiting for Mountain Lion)

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Not enough available disk space...

I know this has been asked a bunch of times but the threads I've found never really seemed to come to a conclusion with a solution. My wife has a white, 2 GHz Intl Macbook that is about 4 1/2 years old. We upgraded the hard drive a little over a year ago to a 500 GB, Seagate I believe. At the end of May, my wife downloaded a software/security update of some sort and suddenly her computer was acting up. Long story short, we had to reformat the hard drive, start fresh, and use the latest back-up to restore her computer. Since then, her computer has not done a back-up and now when trying to get it to do a back-up we get the following in Time Machine Buddy:
Starting standard backup
Backup destination alias resolved to path: /Volumes/Data
Disk image /Volumes/Data/Keri VanDyke’s iBook G4_0017f2f4ea69.sparsebundle mounted at: /Volumes/9:
Backing up to: /Volumes/9:/Backups.backupdb
Event store UUIDs don't match for volume: Macintosh HD
Node requires deep traversal:/ reason:kFSEDBEventFlagMustScanSubDirs|
Starting pre-backup thinning: 144.25 GB requested (including padding), 108.86 GB available
No expired backups exist - deleting oldest backups to make room
Error: backup disk is full - all 0 possible backups were removed, but space is still needed.
Backup Failed: unable to free 144.25 GB needed space
Backup failed with error: Not enough available disk space on the target volume.
Ejected Time Machine disk image.
Ejected Time Machine network volume.
After everything I've read, I "think" it has something to do with the reformatting and restoring of the hard drive and the time machine "thinking" it's a different computer so it's trying to back all of it up. I could be way off on that though. I really want to get this working again so any help is appreciated.
An added note is that both of our MacBook's are backed up to this Time Capsule and I'm not having any trouble at all backing mine up. Thanks for any and all help.

After everything I've read, I "think" it has something to do with the reformatting and restoring of the hard drive and the time machine "thinking" it's a different computer so it's trying to back all of it up.
That is exactly correct. Time Machine thinks it is a new computer (because it is), so it will make a complete backup of the Mac.
It sounds like your Time Capsule is getting tight on space. If you do not really need all of the old backups for the MacBook, you could delete them, start over with a new "master" backup and move forward.
Post back if you need more info on this.

Time Capsule out of space for backups - how best to proceed?

I have a 500GB 802.11n (2nd Generation) Time Capsule which I use for Time Machine backups from my late-2008 Aluminium Unibody 250GB MacBook. My problem arose because I have used 229.33 GB of my hard disk on my MacBook, so I have less than 20 GB of free space on my MacBook. My iPhoto Library is 103 GB and yesterday I dragged it to an External Hard Drive (1TB). However, I have not deleted the iPhoto Library from my hard drive yet because I wanted to 'test' whether Time Machine would back up the new location of my iPhoto library to my Time Capsule .... the problem I have now is that Time Machine will not backup at all
I have tried several times to perform a Time Machine backup today, without success. I receive a message that 'Backup requires 246.75 GB but only 170.97 GB are available.
I've checked the TM backups on the Time Capsule and the earliest, latest and ONLY backup is one performed yesterday at 10.18am prior to my moving the iPhoto Library to the EHD. The EHD is formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and is partitioned into four equal partitions of 250 GB (the fourth partition is slightly less. The 1st partition has a SuperDuper Bootable Clone of my hard drive (including the iPhoto Library on the Hard Disk). The 2nd partition is the new location for the iPhoto Library. The 3rd and 4th partitions are empty.
Can someone suggest whether I would be safe to somehow (how?) delete the existing TM backup on Time Capsule and simply start with a 'brand new' TM backup tonight? I'm thinking that if I have all 500GB available then TM SHOULD be able to perform a full backup and then I'll be OK with incremental backups for a while.
Also, is it possible/feasible (I know it wouldn't be the safest thing to do) to backup the iPhoto Library on the 2nd partition of my EHD to one of the blank partitions?
i would be grateful for any suggestions as to the best way to proceed
Cheers
Tricia

Cvdk,
This is why it may not be a good idea to store other files on the same disk/partition as the Time Machine backups. consider the following:
Here is Apples’ line on this: “Time Machine works best if you use your backup disk only for Time Machine backups. If you keep files on your backup disk, Time Machine won’t back up those files, and the space available for Time Machine backups will be reduced.” [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/11430.html]
This hasn't stopped some from successfully partitioning Time Machine hard disks and storing data on the other partition. As long as the Time Machine backup has its' own partition, you avoid any potential opportunities for conflict.
However, this is not an option for Time Capsule users as there is no easy way of partitioning the Time Capsules’ internal hard disk without elaborate effort. Granted, the Time Capsule is advertised as being able to perform both as a Time Machine backup destination and as a shared network drive [Apple Store (U.S.) - Time Capsule - 500 GB]
Nevertheless, some have experienced problems with maintaining files/folders occupying the same disk as Time Machine backups. In this case, they use the Time Capsule hard disk solely for Time Machine backups. Then attach an external hard disk to the Time Capsules USB port and store additional files there. This added disk will still be available to all Macs that can access the Time Capsule. (Note though, that any USB disks attached to the USB port of the Time Capsule can not then be backed up to the Time Capsule via Time Machine. Time Machine will only backup your Macs internal hard disk or any external hard disks physically attached to the Mac. Time Machine can not backup one remote device to another remote device.)
Hope this clarifies things.
Cheers!

Available disk space.

Hello Guys,
I would like to ask that do any of you know a way to find the available disk space left to be used by the data files in the database. Scenario is that what would happen if the available disk space on the server is very less or let's say its 1% free and this time the datafile needs some space to expand (automatically). It will give an error and the process is screwed up. Solution 1. Monitoring on the OS level, but what if the OS level solution fails to warn the administrator? Can we detect this via the database?
We are using Oracle 9i RAC on HP-UX, i can do this on HP-UX but i would like to know if there is a way to find this in Oracle Database?
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OEM can be one option which can generate alerts if the disk is about to full other than that I there is no database view which can tell you the details of disk space, from database you can query OS like using host in sqlplus and then parse the result but I dont know why any1 want to do that because you can do this better with some shell or perl script.
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Available disk space irregularity

Hi, I have 999,35 GB hard drive capacity in my iMac.
This is what Get info told me about Macintosh HD:
Capacity: 999.35 GB
Available: 58.13 GB
Used: 941,219,274,752 bytes
I'm sure there is MUCH MORE available disk space than 58.13 GB! I've got used about 230-250 GB according to Forklift app, I was checking used data with Omni Disk Sweeper too - the same anwser. There are no hidden files, neighter visible files that I can find to delete:
My Activity Monitor shows me cca 200 GB Virtual Memory, that means up to 500 GB used in total! There must be another 500 GB used in my HDD somewhere.
My Time machine is OFF since I bought the Mac.
I just work about 3 months with very huge files in iBooks Author (3 GB one .iba file). This is my suspicion - this eating space issue has something to do with versioning and autosave in Lion and iBooks Author. Does anyone have similar problem? Any ideas to solve this? How can I check real used disk space?
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That number is in bytes, so yes, each of those is over 10 MB. If you have around 450 GB of unaccounted space, it would take 45,000 of those files to fill that space... it's possible you have that many, or its possible there are some much larger files mixed in there, or you may have other large files elsewhere.
The .DocumentRevisions-V100 folder is used by Versions in Lion and Mountain Lion. So, it stores different states of revisions of all your documents. With any app that supports auto-save and Versions, the document itself represents the current version, while previous versions of the document can be recovered using the information stored in that folder.
If this isn't something you need, you can turn this off using the information at the following sites:
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/11/disable-auto-save-and-versions-in-mac-os-x/
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/27544/how-to-completely-disable-auto-sa ve-and-versions-in-mac-os-x-lion
I'm not sure that you can disable Versions and auto-save independently, unfortunately.

Available disk space is not right!

My 800MHz PowerPC G3 iBook running OS 10.3.9 reports 4.3GB available when I open up the harddisk drive icon. When I choose View/List from the drop down menu and give enough time to calculate all the folder sizes and add up the reported size for each folder the sum comes to only about 7GB or so. This can't be quite right. I have emptied the trash so there's nothing there. Software Profiler reports my Hard disk to have a capacity of 27.94GB. So where are the other 15-16GB? I'd really li to know.

really I'd rather spend the time doing something else!
I suggest you do just that, Sergio. The Finder will report the size of visible files and folders only. Quite a bit is occupied by invisible files (including virtual memory swap files).
The available disk space reported by the Finder is correct. It's amount will vary depending on numerous factors, including how long the computer has been up.
If you're that interested in looking at all the files on your hard disk, fire up Terminal and enter the following command:
<code>defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles TRUE</code>
and relaunch the Finder.
To revert back replace <code>TRUE</code> with <code>FALSE</code> in the above command.
WARNING! Do not delete or move any of the invisible files or folders. They are essential parts of the system software. Moving or deleting them may render your OS inoperable, if you don't know what you're doing.

Available disk space seems incorrect

Hello again everyone. Thank you for solving my problem last time. This time I come with another problem I haven't seen anyone else answer.
I think the title says it all. My laptop is telling me I have about 1GB left on my HD, but I KNOW there MUST be more available or there are a lot of hidden files that I can't find that are taking up gigs of space.
I know that this is not right because I have had gigs of video files or the like on here before and still have 20GBs left just fine. (The total HD space I think is 55GB.) I have been deleting file after file after file and it keeps going down and down and down even when I have not downloaded or added anything to it.
I have almost nothing left to delete save picture files which I definitely do not have 20GBs of.
Also, when I open Photoshop, the available disk space goes down significantly (about 1GB). I close PS, disk space comes back. I restart my computer, some more disk space will come back. The most I've been up to recently is 2GB.
If anyone has any ideas or solutions they are very much so appreciated. Thank you.

Awesome program. And it seems to have confirmed my suspicions.
I scanned what I believed to be the biggest folders of stuff: Applications, Documents, Music, and Library. The total for the four was just under 14GBs. 55 - 14 = 41GBs. Is there something I could have missed? I don't have any movies and the pictures folder came up to about 60MBs.
Where have these 41GBs gone to~?

TC backup starts very slowly & stops..."TM cldn't complete bkup to TC. The bkup disk is not available." The TC bkup disk shows up in sys pref with plenty of avail disk space. Suggestions

TC backup starts very slowly & stops..."TM cldn't complete bkup to TC. The bkup disk is not available." The TC bkup disk shows up in sys pref with plenty of avail disk space. Suggestions?

The best place to research this would be Time Machine - Troubleshooting, an excellent support document authored by Time Machine guru Pondini.
See # C19
http://pondini.org/TM/Troubleshooting.html

Capture Problems long time to allocate disk space

I have FCPHD and OSX 10.3.9. FCP has always worked well on my computer but is now taking a long time to allocate disk space(if that is even what it is doing) when I go to batch capture or capture now the capture window hangs and sometimes I am left with a large file in the capture scratch folder. Any Ideas?

You need to make sure you have set a time limit in Capture Now. Without that limit, FCP can (and sometimes does) allocate your entire Capture Disk as a potential capture file.
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Unable to install SCCM roles - reporting not enough available disk space on to complete this operation

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I am having a strange problem with my SCCM 2012 R2 installation running on Windows Server 2008 R2.
I am not able to add any new roles to the server.
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PDF documents which are made OCR compatible cant be found on AirPort Time Capsule 3TB Disk

Hi,
HW/SW : iMAC 27 OSX Mavericks 10.9.2
HW/SW : AirPort Time Capsule 3TB Disk Version 7.7.3
SW : Acrobat XI PRO 11.0.06
SW : ABBYY FineReader Pro 12.0.4
PDF documents which are made OCR compatible cant be found on latest TimeCapsule (folders).
I use my TC additionaly as drive to share across my Wi-Fi network.
When I save the folder on my Local MAC I search via finder/spotlight a word and the PDFs which have the words in the document show up but when I save the folder on the TimeCapsuleDisk they dont.
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Saved OCR'ed PDF's on local disk of my iMAC
Saved OCR'ed PDF's on AirPort Time Capsule 3TB Disk ( latest firmware etc. )
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Any possebility to solve this ?
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Sandro

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Finder is not correctly reporting available disk space

finder is not correctly reporting available disk space
my drive is 50% full but finder shows there is only @ 35% left
the difference is more than anything needed by the system
any ideas on what is causing the problem?

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Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
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I need to figure out the available disk space for a particular disk before I can write my file to a directory in the disk. I do this to avoid unsufficient disk space problem in my program. May I know how can I do this in Java ? I look at the API function for java.io.File class but there isn't any function to check disk space. I would appreciate any help from fellow Java developers. Thanks a million.
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You cannot do this in purely platform independent way.
You can use System.exec to run native OS utilities like df and parse the output, but then you have to knwo which platform your program is running on, or build in some automatic detection of OS and have corresponding native calls for each likely one.
BTW. even if you get a number of free bytes on disk that's larger than the size of the file you want to write this is no guarantee that there will be enough diskspace for your file, because another process might write to the disk in the meantime. So you will have to do proper error handling and recover gracefully from the disk full sitution no matter what.

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This is a continuation of my previous post. Upon restarting the computer and navigating in the finder, I noticed that the available disk space on my machine changes every few seconds, it seems to go up and down a range of about 500 mb every few seconds or so. Any idea at all what could be causing this and/or a potential solution?

These discrepancies in disk space may be due to Mac OS X using your hard drive as virtual memory. Sluggish operation is generally due to paging in and out of virtual memory. The solution to both problems would be to install more RAM.
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