Disk Space Management Utility

I was having an issue on my MP this weekend to only find out the issue was because I had no free hard disk space. 1TB (RAID 1 non boot drive). I know I have stuff I no longer need, but I find it difficult to determine what needs to go without going through every single folder. If could start with the biggest space hogs and work my way down that would be very helpful in my efforts to recover space effectively. Also, it would have been nice if I had been alerted that I was running low on disk space before I actually ran out.
Is there some sort of application that would help me identify my largest files as well as monitor my disk usage and alert as I approach capacity?
Thanks

Grand Perspective will give you a visual representation of your disk usage which you can click on to show you where the files are.
I don't know of anything that will tell you when you are getting close to capacity. I just have the status bar turned on in the finder and look at the disk space periodically.

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Is there a Disk Space management utility for Macs as there is for Windows. I had to re-install my Leopard OS and I've just lost 10 Gb of space. It may be something to do with archiving but a bit mysterious! You can probably tell from this that my computing knowledge isn't great!!!

There's a free program called GrandPerspective that I like.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
There are some other programs, as covered in this MacWorld article
http://www.macworld.com/article/50432/2006/04/spaceutilities.html

ANM disk space management?

ANM seems to be using a lot of disk space. I can see a lot of old files in /var/lib/anm/mysql named mysql-bin.* that are months old. Are these some type of mysql log files that can just be deleted with rm ? Looks like they have an index file though - mysql-bin.index?
Also the LOG db table what is the best way to reduce this? Is there a retention setting in the app?
Running ANM 2.0(0) Upgrade on the todo list
Thanks, Graeme

There's a free program called GrandPerspective that I like.
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
There are some other programs, as covered in this MacWorld article
http://www.macworld.com/article/50432/2006/04/spaceutilities.html

Time Machine disk space management?

My 2009 MacBook Pro (500 MB which has 160 GB of space used) hard drive has a Time Capsule (2 TB, USB which has 323 GB of space used) and seems to work fine.
I'm getting suspicious because whenever I check backupd with Console, Console reports back Time Capsule always has 1.52 TB of free space. It says this after I've added movies, music, and photos. It seems like it should be using more of the Time Capsule as I add more files.
Time Machine indicates it has daily backups for a month and then switches to weekly backups until Time began. I can retreive deleted files through Time Machine with no problem.
Do I worry too much or have a problem?

You're probably ok, but it wouldn't hurt to "spot check" via the "Star Wars" display to be sure your recent movies, etc., are really there.
And/or, use one of the apps in #A2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting to see exactly what's getting backed-up each time.
If everything is there, what you may be seeing is the rather odd behavior of the sparse bundle disk image that Time Machine puts your backups in when they're made over a network. It will grow as you add things, but doesn't shrink automatically when you remove them.
So what may have happened is, some large things that weren't on your system for a long time were deleted, and after 24 hours or a month, Time Machine deleted the backup copies of those items. But that didn't recover any space. Instead, all your new backups are using that vacated space. Once it's filled-up, the sparse bundle will start to grow again.

I tried creating a startup backup via Disk Utility. There wasn't enough space and now I have no internal disk space. How do I fix this?

I used DIsk Utility to create a startup backup clone for the first time yesterday. I cloned it to my internal drive on my Mac. I let it run all night and when I woke up this morning it showed it as failed (not enough disk space). Now when I boot up my Mac, it showed a warning at the login screen (not enough disk space at startup). I do not have an external hard drive (which is why I chose to backup internally). Do I need to purchase one?
It still allows me to log in. When I open Finder and look at my internal drive, it shows less than 100.00 MB space available. I tried deleting a bunch of old files and stripped needless apps. However, it keeps showing my computer as having less than 100 MB of storage.
Is there a way to find the failed clone backup and delete it? I tried looking in Spotlight for the backup clone (I named it 4-21-14.dmg). I cannot find the file. I was hoping to backup my files so I can install OS Mavericks on my computer (mid-2010 Macbook Pro), but I do not have enough free space.

I solved the problem by deleting over 100 gb of files and apps. I would have rather not gone that route, but having less than 100 MB of storage is an unacceptable headache to deal with. Now I have to decide on whether to try again with the backup internally route or risk it and download/install Mavericks.

Qosmio X500 Folder migration utility and low disk space drice C

This may be a longish post as I try to explain my problem... please forgive.
I've had my X500 for just over three months now.
It took a little while before the folder migration utility woke up I didn't know it was there after I'd done a limited copy of folders across from my old Qosmio F20. After it had woken up and I'd been able to transfer folders/files across it cleared a lot of room from the 'tiny' - I feel, 60 Gb SSD C drive.
I keep getting a message coming up sometimes, when I boot up, that the folder migration utility has a setting for me. If I open the utility it shows no folders in the 'C' drive area and folders already transfered [from first using it] in the right hand side for the 'D' drive. Text in the bottom of the utility says something like "if you have done some manual transfers then it can't do anything"... something along those lines - sorry for not being clear on that.
I've recently installed some other programs and have endeavoured each time to do a custom install to the D drive to program files [x86] folder. However, drive C is now showing low disk space at 5.58 of 59.2 Gb.
Checking the folders copies??? I thought for the programs I installed I find lots of folders/files in those program folders so taking up a lot of space.
What is the best way to free up space on drive 'C' please?
Should I manually copy the data contained in the folders [not just a 'name' ... ie; AVID... folder but possibly also in the drive C Program files [x86] folder] to the same named folders on drive D?
If I did, would the programs work properly or would there be problems in the program being located?
When the utility first activated [by itself] I thought "Great... transfer of all my old data to the X500 will be easy" but it doesn't seem to be the case. I was expecting that any new programs installed would be automatically copied to drive D. I'm getting somewhat paranoid about the low disk space on drive C.
Help would be appreciated.

Thanks for coming forward PauPau.
Firstly, when I got the x500 I had lots of documents etc., I wanted to transfer over so I used the Win7 Transfer program to make the back up/transfer images. In doing the transfer across [after the copies of] the X500 gave an error warning that the C: drive had insufficient space to do the full copies. At this time/stage I was not aware that the X500 had a folder migration utility. What ever made it 'wake up' and make itself known I have no idea but I used it when it did. My first problem was probably in using the Win7 file transfer - for getting files/folders across from the old computer to the x500!
I ended up doing a factory reset about three times before this utility made it self known. I found NOTHING in ant documentation about the X500 about this utility and how to make use of it when I bought the laptop. Not sure if you are aware of the make up of the X500 having 2 hard drives; a 'C:' drive of 65Gb SSD and a SATA 'D:' drive of 650GB. If you do then my apologies if that comes over in any 'bad' way. The D: drive is NOT a partition of 1 installed hard drive as your reply would seem to suggest you are thinking.
The migration folder utility, when used first time, copied/transfered folders across - even program folders such as Program files [x86] - and left 'similar' named folders on the C: drive. At that time I then thought that any future installs of programs would be put in the D: drive. Only when watching the first time for a new program install did I see it going to the C: Program and Program files [x86] folders instead of those in the D: drive. I then had to uninstall and do a custom install to direct to the D: drive. However... some data appears that it can NOT be directed from the install disk to the D: drive and still goes to the C: drive - HENCE the issue I am having with the small amount of remaining free space on the C: drive.
I accept what you say in reply to my question about the best way to free up space but, based on as explained above, should I have to do a re-install of any program I try to run after being moved to the same named corresponding folder on the separate D: drive [if that is what I have to do] I think the install disk will still do an automatic install of these to the C: drive as at that stage there seems no way of stopping it. Although given the option in a custom install to change the 'drive' to install to such as the D: some data is still going to C: and I'll be in the same predicament that I am now.
If that's the case then maybe this is something that TOSHIBA should be looking in to solving if they are going to produce laptops with two hard drives - - - even if one [the C: drive] is of the SSD make to speed thing up.
I DO appreciate your input. MAybe I didn't explain properly first time... and maybe I haven't this time - in which case I apologies.
Are there no other X500 users with the same issue?
Thanks. I may just have to give it a go and transfer these data files/folders manually to the D: and see what happens if no one here can guide as to stop any hair pulling frustrations if it goes wrong.

Managing Hard Disk space

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Well I'm glad to say I'm near the end of my first FC project, it has taken me a couple of months but I'm for the most part of happy with and, it has been a learning experience for sure...
One thing I have learned is the amazing amount of hard disk space consumed, this has me questioning a few things.
Is it normal for an average of 1 minute to consume 1 Gig of HD space ?
What is the best way for one to manage HD space when working with FC ?
I know I'll need to up-grade my HD to one much larger, my thought is going with an external HD. If all goes as planned I'll have a G5 and can retire my G4.
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James

"If you get an external HD make sure it is a Firewire one and not a USB 2.0."
My advice (from bitter experience) is to get TWO separate external HDs, one for the Scratch and one as a backup of the Scratch, backed up regularly. If the Scratch disc fails you will have to re-capture from your camera and if you have several active projects that is a pain - in fact a disaster if the failure damages the captured files and you can't re-shoot.
A RAID seems an attactive proposition because whenever you save a file to the RAID, (and I think that applies to capturing), the data are written simultaneously to the other drive in the RAID, so making a continuous and automatic backup at thast time. However, if the internal power supply circuitry in the RAID case failes, both drives fail. So two HDs, each in a separate case, seems safer.

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Management Pack: Microsoft Windows Hyper-V 2012 R2 Monitoring (7.1.10104.0)
Monitor: Virtual Hard Disk free disk space
There appears to be an issue with this monitor. Every hour, each of my Hyper-V servers is reporting dozens of errors similar to the following. It seems like there is a disconnect between the expected return type (integer) and the actual type (decimal) when
checking the free space on VHDX files.
Log Name:      Operations Manager
Source:        Health Service Modules
Date:          2/5/2014 7:59:47 AM
Event ID:      11903
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
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The Microsoft Operations Manager Expression Filter Module could not convert the received value to the requested type.
Property Expression: Property[@Name='Microsoft:9AC8FCAB-800D-424F-ABCB-747063E5FCF1\559D22F4-A565-4AD4-9B71-44FC5D815C0C\0\0\L.FreeSpace']
Property Value: 488033.99609375
Conversion Type: DataItemElementTypeInteger(5)
Original Error: 0x80FF005A
One or more workflows were affected by this.
Workflow name: Microsoft.Windows.HyperV.2012.R2.VirtualDrive.FreeSpaceMonitor
Instance name: Hard Disk
Instance ID: {0C0E0759-D846-963C-21E6-3C1A1C096D5F}
Management group: HQ
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<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
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<EventData>
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SCOM agent is running as SYSTEM. (I used to run SCOM agents as a low-privilege domain account but eventually surrendered to "The Dark Side" due to the number of issues encountered with that approach.)
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Cleanup disk space on SCCM Management point server

Hi all
I have a SCCM 2007 infrastructure with 1 primary site and three secondary sites.
The disk data D of a sccm management point of one secondary site is full.
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Regards
Christian

if you have other drives with enough space,you can create no_sms_on_drive.SMS and place it on the root folder to avoid storing the packages.
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http://eskonr.com/2012/10/how-to-move-pck-files-to-different-drive/
http://eskonr.com/2013/09/sccm-2007-script-to-delete-old-pck-files-from-smspkg-folder-avoid-disk-space-issues/
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I get message: Force Quit Application when I run iTunes about low disk space, yet I have enought disk space. Recurring often, now. When I run disk utility, tons of permissions differ on 'Applications/iTunes...uld be drwxr-x appear.

When I run my iTunes on my Max 0SX after a while I get a window on my screen: message reads: Your Mac 0SX startup disk has no more space available for application memory (even though I run my Utility and have tons of space available.) I run the verify permissions and see tons of messages that read: permissions differ on 'Applications/iTunes...uld be drwxr-x; they are - rwxr-xr-x.' Utility cannot get rid of these 'permission' messges. This also happens when I'm working in iPhoto. Need help, please.
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Hi,
I am very new at this.
I have installed Oracle VM from the ISO and took all of the defaults.
Next, I have mounted the Oracle VM Manager ISO and when I run sh ./runIntstaller.sh, it starts to work, but when I choose the option to install a XE database, I get an error when it checks the available disk space and it says I have less than 2600MB free.
I know this is not true since it's a brand new machine with lots of space.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
_Brent

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The Domain-0/dom0 vm will have lack in resources regarding memory. Alter the grub settings to give this part a minimum of 1 GB RAM to work with otherwise the whole setup will be unstable (probably due to the JVM that takes all memory when under stress which will cause paging...)
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NI Configuration Manager: Insufficient disk space to perform backup

Hi,
I'm having an issue with my PXI-8110 controller running LabVIEW Real-Time 10.0.1. On start-up, I receive a message is displayed saying "NI Configuration Manager: Insufficient disk space to perform a backup" This message just appeared. Upon starting an FTP session I was able to see that there is only 181 megs of data on the hard drive. In MAX, when I view the system settings of the remote PXI controller, it says that there are 0 bytes available. I'm not sure why this is the case. I'm not able to deploy any Veristand projects to the controller as a result. Has anyone experienced this problem?
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I have now had 2 different systems develop this exact error. After the first occurrence, I assumed that it was a problem with the HD and replaced it. Now, I am starting to worry that there may be an issue with the file management routines in LabVIEW RT. I understand how to fix the issue, but do you have any idea of what causes the issue. In my application, I create a temporary file to store DAQ data then save the data to a log file. After a test is complete, the log file is transferred to a "Host" computer and the process is started again by the user when they initiate a new test. My question: can the continuous creating and deleting of temporary files be causing the file management in the RT system to become corrupt?
It is annoying for a customer to have to go through the process of formatting the hard drive and re-installing the software. Not to mention that it makes the software appear to have issues... Which it may have, but I have been very careful to close and open new files as to not develop open file references.
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Big Ev.

Zero KB of 3 TB available (time capsule message) though airport utility says 2.4T free disk space. any idea?

I do have a 3TB Airport Time Capsule and there is free disk space if I do check on the Airport Utility but also if I add up the disk usage. However, TimeCapsule does not backup anymore. Message I get is "Zero KB of 3 TB available". I did already delete the backup on the Time Capsule and did restart the backup. No success. Any idea?

You need to compact the sparsebundle.. you might have deleted material but if it is inside a sparsebundle no space is retrieved.
See the article by Pondini about deleting files.
http://pondini.org/TM/12.html
The pink box on issues with the sparsebundle.

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Hello Mac gurus!
I'm wondering if there is any way for me to manage the disk space taken up by different user accounts on the same laptop. My laptop has two user folders on it. One of them, the one I use most often, has only 100MB left of space. The other, which I use less frequently but which I need to have on the machine, has 25GB of space available.
Is there a way to transfer to my main user folder's allocation the disk space that my laptop is allocating to this second, less-frequently-used user folder?
Many thanks to anyone who can help me! I appreciate it...

I do think FileVault is probably the problem. I don't like it in general, and I suspected it here because a FileVault user account actually IS inside a separate volume - a password-encrypted disk sparse-image which is normally invisible because it is in /Users/.username/ , a hidden folder. It sounds like that disk-image volume is out of space.
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