Free Space Missing

I used the WhatSize software to check my hd, and it tells me i am using 20Gb, but if I add all the size values it shows, the total is only 10Gb. I recently deleted my itunes folder that had 10Gb, so i am assuming this is the problem, but I have emptied the trash and everything... Does anybody have any idea where my 10gb free space might have gone?

Hi, Trentlane. Have you started up from your Jaguar installer disc, opened Disk Utility, and used its Repair Disk routine to straighten out your hard disk directory? If not, that would be a good place to start.

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72GB of free space missing...again.

Ok, so I have been having this issue intermittently since iOS 7.0. I am now on 8.3 (just upgraded to it this morning) but the problem is still here.
Basically, after a weekend of streaming a LOT of purchased videos to my iPad (not downloading them, mind you, but "streaming" from the cloud), my 128GB iPad will suddenly decide that it has no more free space. In Settings>General>Usage, it will show less than a gigabyte of free space; in fact this morning when I tried to update to 8.3 it told me there was not enough free space to even download the update.
I know for a FACT that I am only actually using about 30% or so of the device's capacity. I can go through the usage section and add everything up manually, or better yet, just plug it in to iTunes. iTunes will tell me that the iPad has 73GB of free space available!
Why the discrepancy? I've managed to fix this before (I do NOT want to factory restore, and quite frankly I shouldn't have to), but I can't remember how I did it. It seems to me that there is some sort of download cache that the iPad uses when I stream my purchased videos, then it forgets that it downloaded those and so it doesn't clean up after itself...
Any help here would be great...this is probably the 5th time I've had this happen after streaming a lot of my purchased videos, and streaming purchased videos is the only thing that seems to actually cause this storage capacity black hole.

Ok, after messing around a bit more it would appear that I've fixed the issue.
Heres how:
In Settings>iTunes & App Store: Turn OFF Show All Music and Videos as well as iTunes Match.
Open the Videos app, hit edit, and delete anything that is showing up in there (even though there shouldn't be anything in there now since none of them have ever been downloaded by me).
Go back to Settings>iTunes & App Store, turn Show All Music and Videos and iTunes Match back ON.

Logical disk free space counters missing for server 2008 r2 and 2012 r2

I'm trying to get low disk space alerts for server 2008R2 and 2012 R2. While the monitors exist for 2008 and 2012 (Not-R2), they are missign for all R2 operating systems. Any idea how to either obtain these monitors, or create them so I can
get alerts for % disk free alerts?

What is your meaning of " monitors exist for 2008 and 2012 (Not-R2), they are missing for all R2 operating systems."? Does it means that the monitor is missing on all Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 R2 machine or it just a blank circle ?
By default, Windows XXX Logical disk Free Space monitor is enable for all windows XXX. You may check whether an override to disable it. Moreover, Windows Server XXXX Logical Disk Free Space (%) Low and Windows Server 2008 Logical Disk Free Space (MB) Low
is disable by default and you should manually enable it.
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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?

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,
Shannon

I 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.

Is there a way to see free space on an iPod in iTunes 11?

In iTunes 11 I can't find a way to see Remaining Space on a connected iPod. The graphical bar (which oddly only shows useful information when you mouse over it) shows space used, the Summary tab shows Capacity but nothing seems to show Free Space Remaining.
Am I missing this? How are we supposed to know what amounts of songs will fit when we manually manage our libraries (which I do because syncing is just a mess).
UPDATE:
Apparently, according to Apple, the only way is to mouse over the unused space in the graphical bar. Wonderful.
Thanks

The grey portion shows the remaining space on my device.

TS1503 After an update on my iPhone 4, (I updated using my MacBook Pro) I first received the message, iTunes was not able to load all of iTunes library back on your phone, not enough free space on your phone. (not an exact quote, essentially the same mean

The complete iTunes library was already on my iPhone 4. Why would it all not go back on? It left out around 4 or 5 songs from my play list. How do I get them back on my iPhone?
Note: All software on both devices is up to date.
Then, I tried to sync my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I got the message, cannot sync your iPhone because there is not enough free space in the iTunes library (not exact quote, but same meaning).
I researched how to get more free space on my phone which might 'supposedly' alleviate the above issues. I removed some less used apps, and some photos and videos from my phone. Then, I tried backing up again. I still got the message there wasn't enough free space on my phone, and the missing songs from the iTunes library were not returned to my phone. I gave another try at syncing my iPhone. I still got the same message that the phone couldn't be synced because there wasn't enough free space in the iTunes library.
Any suggestions on how to remedy these problems will be appreciated!
BTW... I read a suggestion on the internet to restore my phone (I did this recently when something went wrong during a phone update and the whole process went 'hey-wire', shutting down before the update was complete. However, at that time, all of my songs and apps were still on my phone and stored in the iTunes library.) If I restore my iPhone now, will the apps and songs no longer on my phone be lost?
Sorry there are so many questions within the same 'New Discussion' thread I'm starting! But, I think all of these issues are somehow related.
Thanks!

I Have fumbled all day to this resolved, I'll run the battery down and see what happens afterwards. This is not good !

"The iPod ... cannot be synced because there is not enough free space.."

Error Message:
"The iPod... cannot be synced because there is not enough free space to hold all of the items in the iTunes library (additional 21.62 GB required)."
I moved my iTunes library FROM a Win 7 32bit HD to a new Win 7 32bit HD.
On the old HD iTunes uses 145GB of HD space.
On the new HD iTunes uses 145GB of HD space.
On both instances of iTunes I have selected "Convert higher bit rate songs to 128 kbps AAC"
My iTouch is a 3rd gen. 64GB unit.
In the past I would only take 75% of the available space. Now I am short 22GB.
What am I missing?
TIA,

Appears to be fixed.
Moved all music recorded at 128bit or less to different location.
Moved video files to different location.
Synced sections of iTunes collection individually: Only Music, then Podcasts, etc.
Seems to be working fine. Apps also came over without changes.
???? Only thing missing is my PLAYLISTS.
???? Someone know where they reside on my old HD list and why they did not come over?

The ipod "ipod" cannot be updated because there is not enough free space...

I am unable to update my ipod nano and get the message "The ipod "ipod" cannot be updated because there is not enough free space to hold all of the songs in the selected playlists." Huh? I have the 4GB nano and currently have 3.55GB used and 181MB free. There are 982 songs (3.8GB) in my "ipod selection." I have no idea why the nano will not update - I recently downloaded the latest update for ipod/itunes on 3/1/06. Can anyone help with this? I have no other playlists checked to update in preferences and cannot figure this out. Very frustrating.
Jeff
Washington state, USA

Is it
true that a 4GB nano will only hold 3.7GB ?
Yes...
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I upgraded to iOS 5 and I went from having about 15GB of free space to being 4 GB over capacity. Any solutions which save me from having to re-organize all of my apps?

After I upgrded to iOS 5, the category of other is taking up 15.3 GB of space. Prior to the upgrade, I had approx. 15GB of free space on my 64 GB iPad. My concern is that the only solution to this problem that occurred from the "upgrade" is that I have to do a factory reset. If I do a factory reset, there are two big pain points.
1) The amount of time that it will take to get all of my stuff back onto the iPad. When I first got the iPad, it took about 2 days for the music, videos, and photos to load.
2) Re-organizing my apps. I currently have my 229 apps organized into 11 folders and 8 screens. I know this is a lot of apps, but I don't want to have to go through the struggle of getting it all organized as it is today. Is there any way to get all of the apps organized the same way post-reset that will not involve a whole lot of work by me?
I have tried to call Apple support to get help on this, but I have gone through 4 phone calls with hold times averaging 45 minutes before speaking to someone. After all of this time and effort, their solution is a factory restore and do all the work myself.

Hi again
The problem isn´t solved but we now know what it is.
Because I couldn´t upgrade the last 1-2 times with iTunes I though the problem was my iPod touch 3. generation, so when I heard that Apple couldn´t find or re-create the problem(s), then I flipped out. Sorry about that.
Because it looks as the problem belong to the Philips speakersystem (real name is DCM 580).
So when I received my touch back today and after speaking with Apple - DK, I looked at Philips support and found a firmware upgrade to the speakersystem from Sept. 23, 2011. Did upgrade my speakersystem and after that the rechargesystem through the dockconnection worked again. And at this afternoon on the homepage of my speakersystem, Philips tells us, that they have created a firmware update that only needs approval and then will be released at the homepage. So it looks at the whole problems was to some compatibility problems with the speakersystem after upgrading to iOS 5.0.
Its not easy to know where to start when 2 or more units are involved these days
Looked in the mirrow then I ofcourse know very well that we allways shall look for firmware and drive updates before anything else. This time I missed that because I have upgraded several time since February and uptil the day before upgrading to iOS 5.0 and none of thise upgrades had any needs for speakersystem upgrades.
Friendly regards
Bear

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.

Disk Utility Erase Free Space Option Nonexistant

Have an iMAC 1 GHZ PowerPC G4 256 MB DDR SDRAM OS 10.3.9. According to various google results I should be able to call up Disk Utilities>Partition>Erase>Erase Free Space. Its not there. (Its exactly where it should be on a nearby G5 running 10.5.8.).
It will allow me to erase the entire disk or either of two partitions but the Erase Free Space isn't just grayed out, it is completely missing.
1) The hard drive was partitioned at some point in the past I think to get around some admin thing. One partition has 51 out of 60 GB filled, the other has 12.4 of 16.3 GB filled.
2) Don't ask about the admins, my Entourage has been broken for 9 months - I am not joking.
3) My computer knowledge is spotty - you've been warned.
Help!

Try starting the iMac in Target Disk Mode while attached to one of your newer computers with a firewire cable. This basically makes the iMac an external hard drive. I've not tried this but you should then be able to use a newer version of Disk Utility on that drive.
[How to use FireWire target disk mode|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661] includes description of hardware and software requirements.
[What to do if your Mac doesn't enter FireWire Target Disk Mode|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75414], also read about [Open Firmware Password Protection|http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/openfirmwarepassword.html] which can disable Target Disk Mode.
I'm not a technician but I don't think it "misses" areas, it's just more a matter of covering up what was written there before. Think of it as you write something on a piece of paper, then erase it and write something down in the same space. If you look closely you can see what was written there before. Now erase that again and write something else. It'll be pretty difficult to make out what was written there the very first time. Do that 7 times and it will be very, very, very difficult. Do that 32 times and it will be impossible. However, all that erasing and writing will take its toll on the paper and take a long time. I'd say anything more than a erase once would really have to be justified by very sensitive data. Anybody wanting to recover the data would have to use pretty specialized equipment.

Bad File Descriptor in /dev/fd/3, and 94Gb of disk space missing

I noticed a few days ago, possibly as the result of a recent kernel panic, that I have a large chunk of hard drive space missing. The Finder reports that I have approximately 89Gb of free space, but using "df" reports that there is approximately 178Gb free. Using "du" doesn't report any unexpected huge files, so I tried running GrandPerspective. In addition to the usual file usage and free space, this shows a single 94Gb block of "miscellaneous used space".
I then booted into Single User mode to run fsck on the startup drive. This reported several errors, and took 3 passes to repair the directory structure, but didn't recover the missing space. I have subsequently run TechTool Pro and DiskWarrior on the startup drive (both of which found various minor errors), but the 94Gb still refuses to show itself.
I then tried using "find" to look for single large files, using "sudo find / -size +94371840" (anything larger than 90Gb), and I get the following errors:
find: /dev/fd/3: Bad file descriptor
find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory
find: /dev/fd/5: Not a directory
After searching Google, a "Bad file descriptor" error points to an inode issue, that fsck cannot fix, but I don't know enough (read: anything) about inodes to risk running the clri command to zero the problem inode.
Short of blanking the startup disk and installing from scratch (not an attractive option), is there anything I can do to fix the broken inode and recover the missing space?
Any help appreciated.

Drawing Business wrote:
I then tried using "find" to look for single large files, using "sudo find / -size +94371840" (anything larger than 90Gb), and I get the following errors:
find: /dev/fd/3: Bad file descriptor
find: /dev/fd/4: Not a directory
find: /dev/fd/5: Not a directory
This is not an error and always happens with find unless you exclude the /dev hierarchy from the search. (Interestingly this seems to have gone away with 10.5??)
To locate your missing space, try WhatSize. Another alternative which I have not used personally is Disk Inventory X.
As an additional point, with 10.4 it is actually better to use Disk Utility, since it does more than fsck: Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck, quote:
Note: If you're using Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you should use Disk Utility instead of fsck, whenever possible.

SCOM 2007 R2 : Logical Disk Free Space : Did not Alert

Hello reader ,
I know this might be a repeated hearing for you. I have been sitting wit this issue for many hours now. I would like to understand where or what am I missing.
We have the default 'Logical Disk Space' Monitoring enabled for ALL servers in our environment. In one SQL server, non-system drive(E:) went beyond the warning(2000MB and 10%) and Critical (1000MB and 5%) Threshold.The total space allotted for the Drive
E: was 79GB. Now the total space left today morning was 698MB. But no alert was triggered.
I checked the following
If the health service watcher was available. - Yes it was.
If the Space really dropped to 698 - Yes it did. I verified from Performance Report.
I checked if there are any overrides - Nothing specific found.
In most of the blogs they said me to check if both criteria was successful - As shown above it is clearly matches.
Any idea why this alert was not fired ?
S.Arun Prasath HP ARDE TEAM

Thank you Agarwal ! To Answer your Question.
1) verify the monitor settings again.
=> I did this N number of times.
2) ensure there are no overrides
=> I did this too.
3) ensure that monitor properties are set for the correct Windows OS (same as that of the server).
=>What Do you mean here ?. I did not change any settings , it was there by default. No change was done at all.
4) also confirm that you do not have any other overrides on the two aggregate rollup monitors for "logical disk free space". These aggregate rollup monitors are just below the unit monitor in SCOM console.
=>Those Aggregate Rollup monitors are disabled. As we already have this unit monitor Enabled. There is no link to Aggregate monitor.
If all these settings are true, then can you try this. calculate the exact value in both % and MBytes according to your server, put the same values in your monitor through an override and repro the low disk space condition,. you should get an alert.
=> Not so easy to do this in prod. So will keep you posted when this is tested. Looks like this is the only way we can confirm if the alerts are sent.
S.Arun Prasath HP ARDE TEAM

Logical Disk Free Space Monitor - Slow to detect low free space

We are using the built in two trigger (MB and %) logical disk free space monitor in SCOM 2012 R2. We have setup overrides for MB warning and critical for both system and non-system drives and for a group containing disks we do not want monitored. The monitor
actually works fine, triggering an alert when both the MB and % free criteria are met. The problem is that it takes almost an hour for the initial alert to fire. After the initial alert, if I further fill the disk to push it from warning to critical, the alert
changes within the specifiec interval, which we have left at 15 minutes. The alert also clears using the 15 minute interval.
Has anyone else seen this behavior with this monitor? A disk monitor that takes an hour to fire is not going to be very useful.

I wanted to see for myself if there was anything else that I might be missing, so I opened up the Windows 2008 Logical Disk Free Space monitor XML and noticed that there is a NumSamples configuration that is set to 4. So, if the interval is 15 minutes, the
disk would have to exceed both threshold types for 4 consecutive intervals in order to change state and generate alert. This would be a minimum of 1 hour before an alert is raised with the default 15 minutes interval.
Unfortunately, NumSamples is not overrideable in the monitor type, which is too bad... The only way to get an alert sooner than one hour is to override interval. For example, if you want an alert within 20 minutes, override interval to 300 seconds (5 minutes).
Here is the code - see for yourself:
<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk.FreeSpace" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="Server2008!Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.AvailabilityState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal" TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.FreeSpace.Monitortype" ConfirmDelivery="true">
<Category>Custom</Category>
<AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.Windows.Server.2008.LogicalDisk.FreeSpace.AlertMessage">
<AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>
<AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>
<AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>
<AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>
<AlertParameters>
<AlertParameter1>$Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice"]/DeviceID$</AlertParameter1>
<AlertParameter2>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</AlertParameter2>
</AlertParameters>
</AlertSettings>
<OperationalStates>
<OperationalState ID="UnderWarningThresholds" MonitorTypeStateID="UnderWarningThresholds" HealthState="Success" />
<OperationalState ID="OverWarningUnderErrorThresholds" MonitorTypeStateID="OverWarningUnderErrorThresholds" HealthState="Warning" />
<OperationalState ID="OverErrorThresholds" MonitorTypeStateID="OverErrorThresholds" HealthState="Error" />
</OperationalStates>
<Configuration>
<ComputerName>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>
<DiskLabel>$Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice"]/DeviceID$</DiskLabel>
<IntervalSeconds>900</IntervalSeconds>
<SystemDriveWarningMBytesThreshold>500</SystemDriveWarningMBytesThreshold>
<SystemDriveWarningPercentThreshold>10</SystemDriveWarningPercentThreshold>
<SystemDriveErrorMBytesThreshold>300</SystemDriveErrorMBytesThreshold>
<SystemDriveErrorPercentThreshold>5</SystemDriveErrorPercentThreshold>
<NonSystemDriveWarningMBytesThreshold>2000</NonSystemDriveWarningMBytesThreshold>
<NonSystemDriveWarningPercentThreshold>10</NonSystemDriveWarningPercentThreshold>
<NonSystemDriveErrorMBytesThreshold>1000</NonSystemDriveErrorMBytesThreshold>
<NonSystemDriveErrorPercentThreshold>5</NonSystemDriveErrorPercentThreshold>
<NumSamples>4</NumSamples>
</Configuration>
</UnitMonitor>
This proves 2 things:
1. Your testing proved that the monitor is working as designed - you got an alert in about an hour
2. This is a bad design at best, or a bug if you wish, as NumSamples should not be a hidden configuration - it should be exposed in override parameters in the console.
This should be fixed by Microsoft.
Jonathan Almquist | SCOMskills, LLC (http://scomskills.com)

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