All free space on c: suddenly disappeared!
One moment I received a low disk space message, and the next moment there was no space left! I moved 10% of the hard drive content to another drive, but within minutes the space was gone again! I am using anti-malware software and installing all MS updates promptly. This phenomenon is the only symptom i have noticed.
What was involved in making Firefox more compatible with Yahoo? Assuming that the "yt" part stands for Yahoo Toolbar, you could disable that temporarily to see whether that resolves the issue.
Try here:
orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons > Extensions category
Disable the Yahoo toolbar(s) and if a link appears to restart Firefox, click that as the last step.
Note: if you have any unsubmitted forms you are working on, it's probably best to finish your work before restarting Firefox.
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Ever since my firefox was updated to be more compatible with Yahoo I have a terrible problem with ytdump-200.6.1.1-1377716466. It is a, "Yahoo crash log dump", that fills up all the free space on my C: drive drive, no matter when and how many times I erase it, and no matter what I remove from the C: drive.What was involved in making Firefox more compatible with Yahoo? Assuming that the "yt" part stands for Yahoo Toolbar, you could disable that temporarily to see whether that resolves the issue.
Try here:
orange Firefox button (or Tools menu) > Add-ons > Extensions category
Disable the Yahoo toolbar(s) and if a link appears to restart Firefox, click that as the last step.
Note: if you have any unsubmitted forms you are working on, it's probably best to finish your work before restarting Firefox. -
Failed Erase Free Space NOW missing all free space
I just recently performed an Erase Free Space from the Disk Utilities application. It failed and now I am missing all my free space. Can someone please help me correct this problem.
I did post this same question in another Forum. I wanted to make sure I posted it in the correct place.
Thank you,
ShannonI think that a file is created that is the size of the free space, and then written over several times and then deleted. There may be a very large file lurking somewhere on your hard drive. You might want to try using a free utility like Whatsize to look for a large mysterious file, and if you find one then just delete it. Good luck.
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ITunes Match on the iPhone 4 uses all free space
iTunes Match on the iPhone 4 uses all available space (8GB). The deactivation and reactivation does not work. The problem persists! Even unplugging the Apple ID and opening the Music app there are still all the artists, playlists, albums, etc. etc. (in the settings app music occupies 0 bytes! Have not saved songs). I have already restored three times! restarting iPhone available space returns to 8GB, opening the Music app after a few minutes iOS noted that the space is occupied.
iPad 2 and iPhone 3GS regularly work with the same Apple ID!
Any advice?I am also reporting the same behavior. I, like billybaloney, have an almost "topped-out" iTunes Match collection (I actually have to manage keeping the matched content under the Apple 25K limit, but that is a different matter). Whenever I open Music app on my phone - 4S, iOS 7.11 - I see my available storage go to nil, and I start getting the "Storage Almost Full" messages. Which, if you have received them, also puts a significant drag on the performance of the device.
I am fully aware of the download locally (device) of "played" content, so I expect the number of songs and albums I have played to be resident on the phone after, and that requiring manual cleanup. I can see this by taking the phone offline (airplane mode, or literally out of coverage), and then opening the Music app and seeing only what is truly on the device.
I suspect that the "eater of free space" in the iTunes Match arena, for users with a large library of iCloud selections, is as simple as the iTunes library info to render for selection (not the music, but the artist, album, song and playlist lists, and the album artwork). Resetting your phone is a PITA for workaround. Something needs to be done, but I have a feeling nothing will. Or it will require an iOS update to a newer version that my devices won't be eligible to load.
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All emails on ipad 3 suddenly disappeared, how can I retrieve them?
All emails on my ipad 3 suddenly disappeared how can I find and retrieve them?
Try a reset:
Hold the Sleep and Home button down (approximately 10 seconds) until you see the Apple logo.
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ITunes not allowing use of all free space allocated to music - 1Gen shuffle
I'm wondering why my iTunes won't allow me to completely fill the space on my 1st generation iPod shuffle that's been allocated to music. About 1.5 mb is reserved for other data, and the rest is for music, which is how I want it. But I can only ever fill about half of the storage space allocated to music, and there doesn't seem to be any way for me to alter this, as there's no slider on the storage bar - not that I should need it. I know I've been able to adjust this in the past on another computer, but I can't do it anymore; at least not on my current computer. The syncing will stop when it's half full, and if I try to manually drag songs to the iPod it'll just tell me there's no more room.
maybe half of your disk on your ipod shuffle is corrupt (meaning broken) or itunes is reserving more roomfor data than you think, but those are just guesses meaning I might not be right at all.
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Even if I logged in and choose mail, my old emails all disappeared and new ones just does not appear at all
I have also changed my password in the meantime
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All messages in Mail.app suddenly disappeared
About one hour ago all of my msgs in all Mail folders, disappeared. Around 4000 messages total. They still show up on MobileMe. I have run Disk Utility to verify disk, and verify/repair permissions -- no problems related to Mail.app or folder locations were noted in the log.
Needless to say this is very disturbing. Anyone else having this problem? Know how to resolve it?
Thanks, RJHi R.J., and a warm welcome to the forums!
First I'd backup your whole Mail folder, by right clicking on it, then choose Archive.
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip... only the plist is separate.
Try dragging this file to the desktop in case we need to put it back later, then logout/in...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
Couple more things to try...
Quit Mail, then In your home folder, try moving these folders to the Desktop then reboot...
/Library/Caches/Mail
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/08/rebuild-your-database-and-speed-up-mailapp/
/Library/Mail/
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Erasing Free Space on boot drive
I am getting ready to sell my older Mac Book Air with a SSD. I would like to erase all free space on the drive to assure that any confidential data I hadn't securely deleted earlier is not recoverable. In my most recent cleanup, I moved all my own files and installed apps to the trash and attempted to empty the trash securely. When the number of files to be removed was down to 30,000 (from neaerly 100,000) it stopped securely removing them. I rebooted several times and those files were still in the trash. I attempted each time to securely empty the trash. It would pop up the progress dialog box but would immeidately close it cleaning up nothing. Finally, I switched to non-secure and emptied the Trash.
I've done to the Disk Utility, selected the SSD Drive (Macintosh HD) and selected the Erase tab. The Erase Free Space button is disabled. How can I securely clean up the free space so that whoever buys the system will not be able to recover whatever, confidential data may still be hanging around in the free disk space list?
Thanks,read this article, it is outdated, but the info in it is still relevant: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24002. Do a 7 pass erase. That conformed to the U.S. Department of Defense's security procedures until they changed their rules to that of completely destroying hard drives physically instead.
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How to restore an album and its content? (suddenly disappeared)
I've just got my new macbook air and i imported a lot of photos to iPhoto
and it took me so much time to arrange it by my order (different albums places times and faces).
after a few days it suddenly won't open and it asks to choose an album or create one. i was trying to choose the old one but it won't open so i pressed "create new".
I managed to restore my old photos but i am so mad! its not in the order and not in its places, its messy and doesnt arranged by how i did it before.
no albums, no faces, NO EVENTS. Also every one of the photos is titled weirdly with numbers and letters which werent like this when i first imported them.
in the begining i liked how it was but now i am so angry and absolutely not pleased with how it all works on iphoto. if i wont find a solution i would have to delete everything and start from zero.
what can i do to restore my original album and all its events before it suddenly disappeared? if its even possible.
thank you so much for help and sorry for my english.These are your options:
1. Restore the iPhoto library from the most recent backup that predates the issue.
2. Repair or rebuild the library.
3. Scavenge the library with a third-party application called "iPhoto Library Manager," which you can find in a web search. From the application's menu bar (not the iPhoto menu bar), select
Library ▹ Rebuild
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Ok so i decided to uninstall Windows 7 via bootcamp and it got stuck partintioning back to one. It had been like this for hours, so i decided to quit bootcamp and start again.
However, in doing so i have lost 50GB storage. when i go to disk utility and Mac HD it only shows 205GB of storage and it should be 250GB.
i have the brand new Macbook air 2012 13" 256GB
how can i get it back ?!
I have posted this before but no one has replied. i want to move the free space to the Mac HDManaged to solve my own problem.
When it asks where to install windows 7 and it gives all partitions:
1) select bootcamp partition
2) advanced and format it
3) increase the size of the partition so it uses all the free space.
install windows on the partition. and then go back to bootcamp and uninstall windows.
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My opened programs got paused and I got a message to free up space in my start up disk. It asked me to quit some apps. I checked and found that I did not heve lot of apps opened. How do I troubleshoot this?
How much free space do you have on the flash storage device? Go under the Apple menu to "About This Mac..." then "More Info..." and look at the storage tab. Post a screenshot of you Storage tab in a reply here (http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4391).
Should look something like this:
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Suddenly have a lot of free space?
I just synced my iphone to itunes, and all of the sudden I have nearly 5gb of free space! Up until recently, my phone was always on the verge of being full and the bar at the bottom of itunes confirmed that it was all music, photos, etc. only the tiniest bit was marked "other". I have only deleted just a few things recently, but definitely not 5gb worth! I would know. that's a lot of stuff-- I'd really have to work at it to find 5gb worth of music, etc, that I'd be willing to delete from itunes.
Also, I have synced my phone many times in the past year, and itunes always indicated that my phone was nearly full. The only thing I did differently with today's sync was to tell it to manually backup my phone onto my computer. Then I backed up my downloaded podcasts.
At a glance, it seems like all photos, podcasts, videos, music, etc are still on my phone. so why is so much space freed up all of the sudden? is it possible my phone full of corrupted data and this particular backup and sync suddenly cleared it?I haven't recently deleted any apps. In fact, this sync accidentally restored a couple of apps that I had deleted from my iphone. They were really small.
I guess it's just a glitch! I wanted to see if this had happened to anyone else. it makes me angry because:
A: now I'm nervous that something is missing and I'll figure it out way later when it's too late.
B: for the last few months, I slaved over deleting things in order to keep my phone freed up. I thought I was putting too much music, etc on it and it turns out I might have had tons of free space and didn't know it. -
When I click on ABOUT THIS MAC and then on STORAGE it shows that I have like 700 gb of "OTHER" in yellow and all I want is for the yellow to disappear and have all my free space again! please someone help me
<Edited by Host>Your free space hasn't gone anywhere. This is simply the initial result of the process. However, your free space should be there once you need to use it.
What is "Other" and What Can I Do About It?- Apple Support Communities -
My iMac suddenly went from 9 GB free to 100 GB free space. Can't find what is missing?
10.6.8, late 2009 imac, parallels, Win XP, 1TB hd. Can't find anything missing. Have compared with Time Machine backups, have clicked on various files to verify they are still available. Haven't verified every file, but all spot checks show files still there. A few months ago HD started running almost constantly for 1-5 mins when Finder is open (ran Activity Monitor) and imac slows way down, almost unusable till hd access stops. Now suddenly the free space has gone from 9 GB to 100 GB. I've run with 8-20 GB free space for 2 years. Disk util shows no prob. Where did extra 90GB come from? Where can I find out what might be missing?
Bob, this has taken awhile, but I've done all you suggested.
I did do 2 Apple software updates just before the 9 gb of free space turned to 100 gb. I remember there was a Safari update plus I finally did the iTunes update that had been sitting in the update list for months. Neither required a reboot, which surprised me, but I did a reboot anyway. My entire Music folder on my hd was about 32 gb after the update and looking at the Time Machine backups was about the same before the update. Is it possible there were huge hidden files, caches, etc associated with it that may have gotten deleted with the reboot?
I looked at the sizes on all my Time Machine backups over the past year up through the ones I did immediately after the free space change and one I did 5 days after the change. This is where I was totally SHOCKED. All of them show my Mac HD about the same size as it is now - 899 gb! Even tho Finder showed only 8 to 20 gb free during the past year, Time Machine's backups were 880 to 899 gb in size, basically 100 gb less than what Finder showed. And they're the same size now. So I'm thinking you were right in your original thought that some huge swap, temp, etc files suddenly got deleted???
I checked actual folder and file sizes and contents currently and in the Time Machine backups before and after the 100gb change. Also in backups several months ago. All are similar or reasonable. So I don't think any of my data is missing. Whew!
I wondered if something (not data) in Parallels using Windows XP was deleted. Over the past month there have been many hangs or sudden closing of a few Windows programs. I know these create dumps of data, and looking in Windows I only found a couple dumps, but they were very small in size. Don't know if this could have totalled 100 gb tho. I close Parallels or reboot Win XP frequently, always after probs in it. I close it also before doing TIme Machine backups. I did just do a TIme Machine backup with it still open, but there was no difference in the size of the backup file. Is it possible temp, dump, etc files were held by WinXP over the past 2 yrs, then suddenly deleted? The timing of this with WinXp no longer being supported did pass thru my mind also. I have Norton antivirus in the Windows side of my mac, so no virus warnings, tho I did think of that too.
I also spent time looking (not touching) the tmp, log, etc files you showed me how to get to. Very interesting. I am actually surprised my computer is still working after looking at all the error msgs in the logs.
Thank you for all your help and suggestions, Bob. I'm confident my data is still ok. So now with all this extra space I can update Parallels and then update to Mavericks. Does that sound reasonable to you?
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