Freeing space on local disk/changing keychain login

I have two questions so i will start with the one which is causing the most trouble, THE KEYCHAIN login,
1. It says that you should be able to use your normal login password when logging into key chain but mine says: Sorry invalid password, please try again. And i have tried it multiply times.
2. After I click out after a failed attempt at logging it says: Sorry error 39. System prefrences have quit unexpectactly.
The second question is more on the general side, how do I free space on my local disk?

For normal operation of your Mac you should always keep at least 10% of the drive free.
If you're getting too full and beyond this limit then use something like Disc Inventory X or Whatsize to identify things you can remove.

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I am getting this error message "You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (C To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary file" but I have 600 GB free out of 671GB on my C drive.
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I am getting this error message "You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (C To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary file" but I have 600 GB free out of 671GB on my C drive.
That means that the disk is almost full. Unless you free up some space soon, your operating system will begin to behave strangely and eventually will no longer boot into Windows.
Windows operating system uses part of the capacity of the hard disk for virtual memory. A good rule of thumb is to never come to within 15-20% of the hard disk's capacity.
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I'm running XP proffesional via bootcamp and I've already run out of hard drive space. I've partitioned my 40gb ipod into two 20gb ones, one of which is windows and the other is mac.
My problem is that many of my windows programs will only install to a "local disk" and my ipod shows up as a "removable drive" in XP.
Is ther any way to change the ipod to a "local drive"?

My problem is that many of my windows programs will
only install to a "local disk" and my ipod shows up
as a "removable drive" in XP.
Is ther any way to change the ipod to a "local drive"?
There is probably a registry edit you can do (at your own risk).
This link may give you some ideas
http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2006/08/safely-remove-hardware/
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Have you looked in the Music App on your iPhone? On the iPhone music is played by the Music App not iTunes.

There is no more space for virtual disk ServerName_2.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume, and clicking Retry. Click Cancel to terminate this session.   Time: 30/05/2014 1:16:20 AM

Recently, our mail server crashed at about 7pm one night, with the error 'There is no more space for virtual disk ServerName_2.vmdk. You might be able to continue this session by freeing disk space on the relevant volume, and clicking Retry. Click Cancel to terminate this session.'
When we click Retry, the server starts up OK.
There are no snapshots listed in Snapshot manager for any of the virtual machines on the host.
There is also free disk space available on the host and for the VM with the disk errors.
This happened at least three more times, often at bad times. Each time, we were able to click 'Retry' and the disk/system would allow the VM to start-up successfully.
I checked the Forums, the VMware support articles and the internet as I had not seen this problem before. I have completed the VSphere 5.1 - Fast Track course and this issue was NOT covered in the training.
Most of the advice on-line and even that on the VMware web-site was pointing to snapshots being the cause of this issue. There are no snapshots enabled and I cannot see evidence of snapshots ever being used.
- We are running VMware vsphere (5.1.0) and there are (were) 4 virtual machines running on the ESX host. We are using the free version of VMware/ESXi.
- The Hard disk types we are using for this Virtual Machine are 'Thin Provisioned'.
- There are 4 [Thin Provisioned] Hard Disks for this virtual machine.
- There are 6 CPUs
- There is 20GB of RAM (memory)
- The VM is running Windows Server 2008 R2 as the guest/VM operating system. It is an Exchange 2010 SP1 mail server. There is plenty of available disk space on all the drives. The [Exchange] log files are cleaned out regularly (automated).
I decided to move one of our non-critical servers off this host and on to another host to see if this helped the problem. This took quite some time, as we are not using HA or vmotion, nor do we have VCenter Server...nonetheless, I finally managed to get the non-critical server on to another host (n.b. This was a much smaller machine with less virtual resources assigned to it).
After moving the non-critical server off this host, we decided to monitor the Host and see if the issue resolved itself.
I checked the host about 6-10 times a day, from first thing in the morning till last thing at night - monitoring the performance of not only the Virtual Machine, but the ESXi host also.
There were no adverse performance issues. The only thing I did note, was in the Summary page on the ESX Host, under Storage, was If I right-clicked on the datastore and clicked refresh, then the free disk space would drop (ie from 140GB to 125GB).
After monitoring the host and VM for about 2 weeks, we did NOT have another instance of the above error.
Sorry for the long winded post, but I wanted to give as much detail given this error has been raised before and snapshots are usually blamed as the cause.
My question is this:
If the ESX host had plenty of available disk capacity and there were no snapshots enabled on the VM (or any other VM's on the same host), then why did our Virtual machine crash with the error that 'there is not more space for virtual disk Servername_2.vmdk'?
How do we prevent this issue from happening if we don't know the underlying cause?
I would greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions.
If I have not provided enough info on the specs or environment, please let me know and I will provide more information.
Thanks all,
Kurt

The type of storage is really based on your requirements, and your ability to withstand downtime.
iSCSI as you are using with a NAS such as Synology or QNAP. NAS Selector - Support - Synology - Network Attached Storage (NAS)
I wouldn't use iSCSI for Exchange or any database. It's a bit slow.
Do you have a single physical host? Then I'd probably to an external direct attached storage. This would be a card inserted in your host server that gives you multilane SAS/SATA connectivity (www.techcable.com/SAS-SATA/SAS-SATA.pps) and an external disk enclosure/array.
For multiple hosts to a single array, I recommend a fibre channel connection to a FC capable switch, and on to a FC connected array.
We used to use a HP P2000 (on old G1), but it's since been retired. Worked pretty well once firmware was upgraded. http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/disk-storage/product-detail.html?oid=4118559#!tab=features. They can be connected via iSCSI, Fibre Channel or 6GB SAS so they are flexible and reasonably priced.
Recommendations:
     Use RAID 6 with your large disk arrays. With large disks there is a measurable failure rate when rebuilding a failed RAID5 array based on MTBF.
     Use smaller 15K disks in RAID 0+1 for speed on databases/Exchange.
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Hello,
We have installed OVM Server 3.1.1 on a machine that has 250 GB of Hard disk space [Single disk].
While installing used an option - Remove all partitions and create a new default partition layout.
Around 4GB has been used and remaining 246 GB is left as free space.
From OVM Manager - the server is discovered but didn't discovered the physical disk [i.e. remaining 246 GB raw disk space].
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/configure-vm-templates-1656261.html
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I am trying to install Sims 2 on my computer which I recieved for christmas...it is the first game I've installed. It is loaded, but when I try to start it, my computer says that "The Sims 2 requires at least 1MB of free disk space. Free up some space on your LOCAL DISK and then re-launch The Sims 2". I've already deleted songs that I don't listen to, pictures, things that I don't need, etc. What do I need to do to run my game? If anyone could help with my problem, that would be wonderful. THANK YOU!
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+". . . my 3TB RAID 5 that they're using has become rather full at this point (down to 200MB). . ."+
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