Error about low disk space for home directories
I have a 10.3.9 server which handles the home folders for some of the users on my network. I'm not sure if it's called Portable Home Driectories or not as the documentation is vague, but anyway they are presented with te login screen at startup and their home folder is on the server.
One particular user has a problem sometimes where suddenly he'll get a message saying that there isn't enough space on "Staff_Home" (which is where I keep the home folders) and that the disk is locked, and then all his applications will crash or give error messages because they can't write to his home folder.
The disk where the home folders is located has over 100gb free though, and I haven't put any restrictions on the size of home folders.
Thanks!
The first thing would be to empty the trash.
Hopefully you don't have FileVault turned on, it does not like a full hard drive.
If you already have an external, copy your home folder to it while it's mounted. This will give you room to breathe for a second while you figure out what to really move/copy/trash.
If you don't have an external yet, be sure to get a FireWire drive with the Oxford 911 chipset. Use a program such as SuperDuper to create a bootable clone.
Joe
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Hello All,
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Google Drive Warning:
Spotify Warning:
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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.
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Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
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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"
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set almostFullDiskNames to ""
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set almostFullDiskNames to almostFullDiskNames & diskName & ", "
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activate
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repeat with i in sendToAddresses
tell warningMessage
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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
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end if -
My computer knowledge is below average!!! My 'puter reads Error: low disk space HP(C. I have cleaned and defragmented several hundred times but to no enjoyment. I have also uninstalled whatever I believed to be unneccessary for me to be using on this 'puter. The memory available is reading 4% at the moment and I am feeling quite frustrated and at a loss. IS SOMEONE OUT THERE THAT CAN HELP THIS COMPLETE NOVICE??
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View Solution.I am an elder novice and also had this problem.I did a disk clean and was amazed when it revealed 8.4gb of stuff in the recycle bin which i am always emptying via c cleaner.After running the cleanup and doing a defrag i ended up with 22.4gb of space.I ran c cleaner and was surprised that it found 18000kb still in the recycle bin.Non of this makes real sense to me but at least i have a lot more space.Hope it helps you.
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pooji wrote:
I have a HP Pavilion G6 model number:2005AX .Recently I have been receiving an error message as in low disk space(only 1 GB free of 20 GB) in D drive but there are no unwanted files in the drive .I am worried that it might cause any problems in the future.Please help what i should do to increase the disk space in the recovery drive.I have included a screen shot of my recovery drive files.
That normally occurs because someone has turned on system protection for the partition. I can't see your image just yet.
Check to make sure that has not happened.
The following image is how the system protection window should look
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