Could Very Low Disk Space Cause problems?

Hi, my 600 GB Hard Drive only had around 5 GB of space left . I purchased a new 1 TB Hard Drive in order to delete media so that I could gain the space back. I've since gained back 200 GB of Space but Could very low disk space cause issues? What kind of issues could occur? Thanks
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There are any number of reasons for occasional beachballs to appear. They will appear when some programs are involved in heavy disk I/O which tends to be processor dependent and causes the program to suspend all other activity until the disk activity has completed. This is more often the case when writing to the disk. Beachballs may also appear if the OS has to use disk I/O and is slowed down by an over-filled and/or fragmented hard drive. The fuller a drive gets the greater the likelihood that fragmentation will become a more noticeable problem. Beachballs can appear if you are low on physical memory so applications must resort to disk-based virtual memory which is considerably slower and tends to cause the computer to become slow or unresponsive for a period of time. It can also cause disk-thrashing. Beachballs can occur if the disk has become corrupted causing applications to have difficulty reading from or writing to the disk.
It is possible to repair a drive's directory, and it's even possible to identify corrupted files, but it's not possible to repair corrupted files nor repair a corrupted drive. If a drive develops corrupted files either the files will need to be replaced or deleted. If a drive develops soft sector errors these can be repaired by erasing the drive (reformatting.) If a drive develops hard sector errors these may or may not be repairable, but if they are repairable it requires zeroing the data during a disk formatting operation. If the disk directory becomes corrupted that can be repaired using Disk Utility or one of the various third-party utilities such as Disk Warrior. Disk Utility can repair many but not all directory corruption problems. What DU cannot fix Disk Warrior usually can.
You can start repairing a drive as follows;
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
This applies to your startup volume. No need to repair permissions on any but a startup volume.

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Also offered via 'Sw update' is Ovi Maps 3.1, which also insists on ensconcing itself on C:. If version 2.0 is working well for you then there really isn't a compelling reason to update, to be honest. Or at least not one that's compelling enough to warrant signing over at least 7MB of C: to it. If version 2 isn't working for you, you still shouldn't install v3.1, as offered, but go for the very latest v3.3, from the Nokia Beta Labs Maps page. It's faster and slicker and at least you'll be getting extra functionality for your lost Megabytes, including less troublesome GPS performance. See below for more on the GPS.
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Then there's the N-Gage games client, another C: biggie, seemingly swallowing up 6MB or so in a real world installation - if, like me, you're rather underwhelmed by N-Gage titles (in fact, underwhelmed by gaming on Symbian in general, but that's another rant for another day), then just say no and, again, give your internal disk a break.
The final optional 'Sw update' was Quickoffice 6, bringing compatibility with Office 2007 documents. This also takes up the best part of 10MB on C:, so unless you get a lot of Docx or Xlsx files by email then I'd strongly suggest holding fire on this update - you'll probably get it anyway in the v20 firmware in a few months time.
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Hi, don't know wether you've done this, but go into messaging/options/settings/other/memory in use/set as E:mass memory. If this causes a problem with email, simply delete mailbox and re-install it, it only takes a couple of minutes. One other thing , if you want to save any txt messages, sync with ovi first.Also to get C memory back delete all messages sent , recieved, reports etc before selecting Memory in use as E. Also go to web browser and clear privacy data regularly. One other thing to note is that usually when connected to computer via usb, messaging memory will revert to C, and you won't be able to see any messages , so reset to E again and they are all there. Best taskmanager from Ovi store is also a real help with memory on phone.
Hope this helps, and my appologies for the somewhat eratic layout nof the advice. Should have mentioned clearing messages from C before using E !
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Finder fails to open when starting up macbook pro due to low disk space (possibly)

Dear forum,
I have a Macbook Pro (13") running snow leopard and have a partitioned hard drive (half OS X and half Windows 7). This morning I was using the Mac side and was running low on disk space (very low) so I was moving desktop files into folders to free up some space. I restarted the computer to see what the free space was but the computer stopped/froze at the desktop image (no folders or dock appeared. I restarted the computer many times but the finder never opens and all I see is the desktop wallpaper. I donnected usb drives and put in dvds but the finder never appears so I cn do nothing but shut down and start up.
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Does anyone know what happeded to my machine? Is there such low disk space that finder had an issue? I have started on such low memory before.
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By chance I got itunes to pop up (running hands over keys blindly) and with it the apple menu icon so I had access to my recently used items and so I could delete images from iphoto and thus bring the free disk space up above zero and then the dock/folders and finder came back....I have just backed up my important files......feeling better now
Any advice on how to more quickly handle this type of issue next time?
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File History in Windows 7 is an extensive image backup of your drive which will steadily increase over time and needs to be cleared and suggest that you turn the feature off. It is not very efficient.
If you wish to delete this Windows Image Backup file, you should disable the automatic backup feature of Windows.
Click on Start button > Control Panel > System and Maintenance> Backup and Restore.
In the left pane, click on "Turn Off Schedule".
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I also suggest as an alternative, use Macrium Reflect Free every so often as it is more efficient and reliable. It will make a complete image back up of your entire hard drive to an external hard drive. Don't forget to create a rescue disk.
Go to this site and do a Custom Install:
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
I personally use the Professional Edition which gives me more flexibility and features.
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All latest solutions for low disk space problem on HP netbooks can be found in below link:
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1. Install and run CCleaner.
Here You will find documentation for this program.
Very important sections from this documentation for You there are:
Cleaning your PC
Removing System Restore points
2. Change settings for restore points:
Go to Accessories -> Systems Tools then bottom System Restore.
Click on settings there (if it's disabled uncheck switch off restore points on all drives).
Move slider there max to the left side and click on OK.
When you will do this Disable restore points in Windows XP:
Resource:
How to turn off and turn on System Restore in Windows XP
3. You may also have recovery partition:
connect Your notebook to the AC power adapter.
Close all running programs, as system has to be rebooted.
Click on Start button, then All Programs , follow by Recovery Manager or System Recovery . Then run Recovery Manager or PC Recovery.Alternatively, if you’re using Vista, type “Recovery” in the search field, and click on Recovery Manager when it appears in the searched program list to open the Recovery Manager window.
For “PC Recovery”, select the option to perform the PC Recovery when the recovery options are presented, and click Next. Wait for computer to restart.Skip to next step if you’re using “Recovery Manager”.
For “PC Recovery”, click on OK button on “Welcome to PC Recovery” dialog message.Skip to next step if you’re using “Recovery Manager”.
Click Advanced Options button.
Click on radio button of Remove recovery partition (or Delete Recovery Partition on PC Recovery) option and click Next.
When prompted to verify that you want to delete the partition, select the Yes option, and click Next.IMPORTANT Reminder: If you still haven’t create recovery discs, click on “Click Here” button to create a set now, else you will have to pay in order to get the discs sent to you.
PC Recovery does not prompt you for confirmation.
Removal process will start to remove the recovery partition.IMPORTANT: Recovery Manager is new tool and able to remove recovery partition without affecting or touching existing data and system partitions. Users can then use Disk Management tool in Computer Management of Control Panel, or third party utilities such as Partition Magic or Acronis Director Suite (which in fact can be used to remove the recovery partition straight away) to extend the size of existing partition to make use of freed space. However, in the older PC Recovery, the whole disk will be formatted once recovery partition is removed. Thus, backup your data before performing the action above. And, an operating system and programs must be installed on the hard drive manually.
Restart the computer when done.
4. Reduce pagefile.How to do it informations here.
5. Disable hibernation. How to do it informations here.
6. Clean browser's cache. How to do it informations here.
7. Reduce Recycle bin's size. How to do it informations here.
8. Backup Your XP system on external HDD, DVD/CD or flash memory:
Macrium ReflectFree Disk Imaging
Paragon (may work better with Intel machines)
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Low disk space (Boot Camp) - can I repartition my hard drive?

Hi there -
I am a MacBook user through and through. However, I partitioned my hard drive 3 years ago using Boot Camp to do some light Windows-only work. I only partitioned 8 GB to Windows, which wasn't a problem til now. I'm now trying to use some Windows-only software again, but am faced with a "low disk space" message. I cleaned up as much as I could with 8 GB, but it's still not enough. Can I re-partition the hard drive to more like 20 GB without losing any of the data and/or installed software (I don't have access to the install disks...)? I tried to install WinClone but I have OSX 10.5.8, and it said it only runs on 10.6 or 10.7. Can anyone offer advice on an option to re-partition with Boot Camp, without losing the installed software and files/data?
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Blue sceen appeared after low disk space warning

Hi Everyone, just seen a message stating a low disk space on my Mac pro bought last November and tried plugging in an external hard drive to remove some pictures to free up some space but it seems that the computer did not have enough space left to start up and run the hard drive. I then tried to restart and ended up with a blue screen and have no knowledge now how to fix this problem. I phoned support but they say I have no technical support left but do have warranty and I would need to either try with the community here or take the unit to an apple store for an appointment. The store is an 1 and 1/2 from me and I really want o see if there is another fix that could allow me to start again then remove some files and then add external drive to remove more. I was blown away at the low amount of storage.....looked for the icloud option last night to upload there as i was told about this by a UK client of mine and now see it is not up and running. Any advice or help by the communtiy would be greatly appreciated as this is my business and travelling laptop. Cheers, Dean <")))><

Hi Dean,
You may be able to access it via FireWire Target Disk Mode: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
If so, move and delete enough so you have at least 15% free space on the MBP's HD. After that, run Repair Disk:
First check the S.M.A.R.T. status on your HD: Boot from install disc (insert disc > restart > immediately hold down the c key and keep holding it until you see “Preparing Installation”) > at first screen select the language and click Continue > click on theUtilities Menu in the menu bar > select Disk Utility > select your HD in the panel on the left side (the name of the HD’s manufacturer and the model number, usually the top item in the list) > look at the bottom of the main window next to S.M.A.R.T. status and see if it says “Verified” (good) or something more ominous like “Failing.”
If S.M.A.R.T. status is "Verified," run Repair Disk > click Repair Disk at bottom of main window. Run this at least twice, and keep running it until it says “appears ok” twice in a row. If that doesn’t happen, you may need a stronger utility (such as DriveGenius, TechToolPro, DiskWarrior) or if the directory is damaged beyond repair, you may need to reinstall the OS, or you may have a damaged HD (repair utilities can only repair the directory structure, not the HD itself). When this is finished, quit Disk Utility, quit the installer, and restart. Once booted normally, go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility and run Repair Permissions.

Need help with Low disk space issue and blue screen

Hi Everyone, just seen a message stating a low disk space on my Mac pro bought last November and tried plugging in an external hard drive to remove some pictures to free up some space but it seems that the computer did not have enough space left to start up and run the hard drive. I then tried to restart and ended up with a blue screen and have no knowledge now how to fix this problem. I phoned support but they say I have no technical support left but do have warranty and I would need to either try with the community here or take the unit to an apple store for an appointment. The store is an 1 and 1/2 from me and I really want o see if there is another fix that could allow me to start again then remove some files and then add external drive to remove more. I was blown away at the low amount of storage.....looked for the icloud option last night to upload there as i was told about this by a UK client of mine and now see it is not up and running. Any advice or help by the communtiy would be greatly appreciated as this is my business and travelling laptop. Cheers, Dean <")))><

Great to hear Dean, thanks!
Further notes: OSX needs about 15% or 10GB Free space minimum, but will run mucch faster/safer with 30-40% or 50GB of Free Space... Free Space is no longer ours to use.
Another tool to help clear up assorted things is Applejack...
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15667/applejack
After installing, reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 6 of it's things.
At least it'll eliminate some questions if it doesn't fix it.
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Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.
Trash old Log files.
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Disconnect the USB cable from any Uninterruptible Power Supply so the system doesn't shut down in the middle of the process.

Low disk space Applescript (AppleEvent handler error -10000)

Hello,
I am new to Applescript, downloaded script from online for low disk space alert and was working properly on one mac but getting error on another mac of same version. Someone please help me on this.
Thanks in advance.
-- Script to warn users of low disk space remaining on fixed (hard) disks
-- Created by Matthew Lindfield Seager on 21st March 2007
-- © Copyright Matthew Lindfield Seager
---------- change these settings ----------
set expectedNumberOfHardDisks to 2
set minimumFreeSpacePercentage to 60
set sendToAddresses to {"[email protected]"}
set sendImmediately to false -- If this setting is false the message will be created but won't be sent until someone manually clicks the "send" button. Only useful for testing!!!
---------- change these settings ----------
tell application "System Events"
          set hardDisks to (name of every disk whose local volume is true and ejectable is false) as list -- list of all hard disk drives
          set notEnoughDisks to false
          set almostFullDisks to {}
          set almostFullDiskNames to ""
          set computername to (do shell script "networksetup -getcomputername")
          if (count of hardDisks) is less than expectedNumberOfHardDisks then
                    set notEnoughDisks to true
          end if
          repeat with i in hardDisks
                    set diskName to (i as string)
                    try
                              set totalSpace to round ((capacity of disk diskName) / 1024 / 1024)
                              set freeSpace to round ((free space of disk diskName) / 1024 / 1024)
                              set percentFree to (round (100 * freeSpace / totalSpace))
                              if percentFree is less than minimumFreeSpacePercentage then
                                        set almostFullDisks to almostFullDisks & {i}
                                        set almostFullDiskNames to almostFullDiskNames & diskName & ", "
                              end if
                    end try
          end repeat
end tell
if notEnoughDisks or ((count of almostFullDisks) is greater than 0) then
          set messageText to "There is a potential problem with the hard disk drives on the server." & return & return & "Details:" & return
          if notEnoughDisks then set messageText to messageText & " * A hard disk drive may be missing" & return
          if (count of almostFullDisks) is greater than 0 then
                    set messageText to messageText & " * The following hard disks may be close to full capacity: " & almostFullDiskNames & computername & return
          end if
          tell application "Mail"
activate
                    set warningMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"Warning: Low disk space", contentmessageText)}
                    repeat with i in sendToAddresses
                              tell warningMessage
make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:i}
                              end tell
                    end repeat
                    if sendImmediately then send warningMessage
          end tell
end if
Following is the error:
tell application "System Events"
     get name of every disk whose local volumn = true and ejectable=false
          -->error number -10000
Result:
error "System Events got an error: AppleEvent handler failed." number -10000.

Hi,
I believe these are the commands (round and do shell script) which causes this error.
because it's not recommended to use commands of the osax "Standard Additions" in the 'tell application "System Events"' block, although it works most of the time.
Here is the modified script that does the same thing :
set expectedNumberOfHardDisks to 2
set minimumFreeSpacePercentage to 60
set sendToAddresses to {"[email protected]"}
set sendImmediately to false -- If this setting is false the message will be created but won't be sent until someone manually clicks the "send" button. Only useful for testing!!!
set almostFull to ""
tell application "System Events"
     set hardDisks to (disks whose local volume is true and ejectable is false) -- list of all hard disk drives
     repeat with tDisk in hardDisks
          try
               tell tDisk to set percentFree to (100 * (its free space)) div (its capacity)
               if percentFree < minimumFreeSpacePercentage then
                    set almostFull to almostFull & (get name of tDisk) & ", "
               end if
          end try
     end repeat
end tell
set notEnoughDisks to (count hardDisks) < expectedNumberOfHardDisks
if notEnoughDisks or (almostFull is not "") then
     set messageText to "There is a potential problem with the hard disk drives on the server." & return & return & "Details:" & return
     if notEnoughDisks then set messageText to messageText & " * A hard disk drive may be missing" & return
     if almostFull is not "" then
          set computername to do shell script "/usr/sbin/networksetup -getcomputername"
          set messageText to messageText & " * The following hard disks may be close to full capacity: " & almostFull & computername & return
     end if
     tell application "Mail"
          activate
          tell (make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"Warning: Low disk space", content:messageText})
               repeat with i in sendToAddresses
                    make new to recipient at beginning of to recipients with properties {address:i}
               end repeat
               if sendImmediately then send
          end tell
     end tell
end if

Low Disk Space Recovery Drive D

My computer is an hp G60 121WM, which is Vista Home Premium running windows Vista 32 bit OS. I messed up while in 'backup and restore' and sent the backup to the partitioned drive (D) used for system recovery. Is there any way to access this drive or remove the mess I sent there? It won't let me in by the simple route of trying to open it from the 'computer' dialog. I can't use backup and restore now, and every time I boot up the computer I get the message that I have low disk space in drive D. It's not a real problem (so far), but is very irritating. And if I ever do need to do a restore (back to a previous automated backup) I'll be unable to do that. I'll appreciate any help from more seasoned users. Thanks
ps. I don't quite understand why hp recovery drive being full impacts windows backup and restore, so the problem with that may be coincidental. You tell me. As you can see, I'm not well versed in computer use!

A useful utility for viewing all the files on your PC is called Free Commander, on the link below, as it displays folders that the Operating System normally hides and has a good search function.
http://www.snapfiles.com/php/download.php?id=107872&a=7122339&tag=601108&loc=10
This is a zipped file. If you don't have an extraction utility installed, download and install 7-Zip which can be used to open this so that you can run the installer.
When installed, launch Free Commander, click the D partition in the toolbar and look for any files that obviously don't belong here, cut them out and paste to a location of your choice on the C Partition.
After doing this, make sure that Windows Backup and Restore is directed to a new location.
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Low Disk space in both drives

All of sudden My Crive is showing Low disk space. Can any one help me int his issue.
And also in my E drive this is not even a single file But it is showing 7 GB less . What will be the problem.
Please help me ...
Sudheer

I'm running XP. Won't do Vista. No new fatware if I can help it. I just inherited a broken machine and gonna' put Linux on it.
FYI,
The Prefetch directory was a new one to me just recently. Selecting all and deleting was a definite improvement. ALSO, empty the trash. All those deleted files are still on the hard drive unless they are deleted.
Defrag is your best friend. Under accessories and system tools is this handy utlitity. I defrag once a month and just makes things run better. If you're into it, set the Virtual memory on your hard drive. Virtual memory is what Windows uses instead of hardware memory. It used to be called the swap file. I always had it set manually but then I let Windows decide how to manage this memory and it didn't work. I very soon ran out of memory. STUPID me. So I set the virtual memory to minimum 1024 and maximum 1024. It's fixed and my T23 is running really smooth.
And if you are running into these kind of issues but know you have hard drive space left, do all of the above. You and your machine will be very pleased.
Message Edited by T23FUN on 07-08-2008 01:34 PM
ThinkPad T23, 2647 HU8, Based on 2647-8RU: PIII-M 1.20GHz (512KB), 512MB RAM, 40.0GB HDD, 14.1 XGA(1024x768) TFT LCD, 8x8x24x/8x CDRW/DVD, Modem(MPCI), Ethernet(CDC), WinXP Home, Linksys Wireless B adapter.

Very Low Disk Warning

I recently received a Very Low Disk warning. I have seen this before on other macs when I perform a "Erase Free Space" operation on the Disk Utility. However, I was not doing that now. I appear to have about 45 gig of free space on my MacBook Pro. It appears that the warning came about 17 minutes after a Time Machine backup completed. Any ideas as to why this might pop up.
Here is my free space:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 186Gi 140Gi 46Gi 76% /
devfs 108Ki 108Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
fdesc 1.0Ki 1.0Ki 0Bi 100% /dev
map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net
map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home
/dev/disk1s3 931Gi 445Gi 487Gi 48% /Volumes/Backup1
Here is the last bunch of messages from my Console (All Messages):
2/11/09 8:20:02 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] Copied 15611 files (17.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
2/11/09 8:20:13 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] No pre-backup thinning needed: 1.25 GB requested (including padding), 486.50 GB available
2/11/09 8:20:48 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] Copied 15800 files (5.0 MB) from volume Macintosh HD.
2/11/09 8:20:57 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] Starting post-backup thinning
2/11/09 8:22:13 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup1/Backups.backupdb/burns/2009-02-10-072449: 486.52 GB now available
2/11/09 8:22:46 AM iChatAgent[179] [SASL] Level 5: DIGEST-MD5 client step 2
2/11/09 8:23:32 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] Deleted backup /Volumes/Backup1/Backups.backupdb/burns/2009-02-10-062810: 486.54 GB now available
2/11/09 8:23:32 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] Post-back up thinning complete: 2 expired backups removed
2/11/09 8:23:32 AM /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[6621] Backup completed successfully.
2/11/09 8:40:27 AM KernelEventAgent[36] tid 00000000 received VQ_LOWDISK event (4)
2/11/09 8:40:27 AM KernelEventAgent[36] tid 00000000 type 'hfs', mounted on '/', from '/dev/disk0s2', low disk
2/11/09 8:40:27 AM KernelEventAgent[36] tid 00000000 found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s)
2/11/09 8:40:27 AM KernelEventAgent[36] tid 00000001 displaylowdiskwarning: generating warning for volume 'Macintosh HD'
2/11/09 8:40:57 AM KernelEventAgent[36] tid 00000001 displaylowdiskwarning: warning for volume 'Macintosh HD' removed
Thanks.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 9.4G 8.8G 152M 99% /
I would say that it's pretty low disk space.
Partitioning is a personal thing, it depends on how much you install. Some need only 5 GB, some need e.g. 40 GB.
Last edited by karol (2011-01-19 04:27:22)

Hard drive says I have more than 300 GB available with a 500 gb capacity. Yet I get "Low Disk Space" error messages when I do anything.

Hard drive says I have more than 300 GB available with a 500 gb capacity. Yet I get "Low Disk Space" error messages when I do anything.
Attempted solutions:
-I created a new User Account and I can download large files with no issues.
-I ran "Repair Disk Permissions" but still get warnings.
Google Drive Warning:
Spotify Warning:
But on my other user account I can use spotify and download large files, etc.

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (triple-click, copy, and paste):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
This time you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1 or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

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