From 42 GB free space to 0
Hi,
I started a SuperDuper backup this afternoon, left, came back, and found my computer asleep (normal, I thought). Checked the backup, which had failed.
Then I get a message saying that my startup disk is full. Only I was sure that I had 42GB free space. Now I had 0.
I called Apple Care to find out what the deal was. They really had no idea. Went to Disk Utility, and checked the HD, which had to be repaired. Repaired with install disk - successful.
I booted up, and went to check how much free space - 10 GB, but that is only because I transferred 10 GB to another computer.
How can I find out how I went from 42 GB to 0 without doing anything?
Thanks
I started a SuperDuper backup this afternoon, left, came back, and found my computer asleep (normal, I thought). Checked the backup, which had failed.
Choose Go to Folder from the Finder's Go menu, provide /Volumes/ as the path, and delete any folders inside. What probably happened was that the backup was redirected here instead of the drive it was meant for.
(54274)
Similar Messages
-
USB Flash Drive: Trying to recover space from "erase free space" problem. Finder shows no files i
Hi,
I have an 8gb flash usb drive. (recognizes 7.5gb)
I must have stop the operation or use erase free space orsomething stupid. Regardless, i just want to get it back to full capacity of7.5 gb. I think right now its only 6.2 gb. Finder shows no files inside thedrive. Let me know what i need to do. I try looking at different webpages aboutsparseimage file or 00 written in place of my missing 1.3 gb. But i dont knowhow to get it back. I am new to OSX, so please help me with clear instructions.ThanksYou can reformat it. Plug the drive in, launch Disk Utility (in your Alications> Utilities folder). Select the dove, theme erace/reformat it.
Just be carefully you accidentally don't erase any other external drives! -
Unable to create partition from free space on hard drive
I have a segment of free space on my Macbook Air's hard drive. It was formerly a Bootcamp partition.
When I try to create a new partition from this free space in Disk Utility, it prompts me to start creating the partition, but nothing happens after that. I can leave the machine alone for hours, and nothing has occurred. Disk Utility thinks it's working though, since it prompts me to cancel the process when exiting the app.
Any thoughts on how to fix this? Thanks!Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located. -
Merge Free Space into Primary Partition
Hello, all, is it possible to merge free space into the primary partition? I made a partition but deleted it and i'm left with free space and i cannot delete it. I'm using disk utility and i wouldn't want to erase the whole drive and start over just to erase the free space
There is an option.
I don't know if it's the best but it works for me.
Boot from a recovery disk/usb and open Disk Utility then:
1. Create a partition from the free space
2. Select the drive
3. Go to Restore tab
4. On the source drag the partition with your OS
5. On the Destination drag the partition you created
6. Click Restore
7. Go back to Partition tab and erase the OS partition (not the partition you created)
8. Resize the partition you create
Done.
I know this is an old topic but maybe someone is stuck with this problem and can't find an answer! -
How do I get my videos to upload from my sony handy cam when I get the message The following file could not be imported. The file is in an unrecognized format. I am using a macbook pro version 10.9.3, I have 411 gb free space, it worked before I downloaded the latest update for iphoto.
You may be able to download and install the update from here: Digital Camera RAW Compatibility 6.01
If I upgrade to Yosemite will I be forced to go to the new Photos program
No. After upgrading (and of course make a back up first) you will need to update iPhoto to v9.6.1 (you won't be able to do this prior to upgrading). Here's how:
Go to the App Store and check out the Purchases List. If iPhoto is there then it will be v9.6.1
If it is there, then drag your existing iPhoto app (not the library, just the app) to the trash
Install the App from the App Store.
Sometimes iPhoto is not visible on the Purchases List. it may be hidden. See this article for details on how to unhide it.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4928
One question often asked: Will I lose my Photos if I reinstall?
iPhoto the application and the iPhoto Library are two different parts of the iPhoto programme. So, reinstalling the app should not affect the Library. BUT you should always have a back up before doing this kind of work. Always.
Photos is v1 of a new app, as yes it's not as mature as iPhoto. It uses a different technology for working with external editors. That requires Adobe to write an extension to let it hook into the new app. Not done yet, neither has anyone else.
Going forward: iPhoto will run on OS 10.10., but there is no guarantee for subsequent versions of the OS. You might want to factor that into your anger term thinking. -
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 -
I am trying to purchase os x lion from app store. Getting a response saying I need 2GB memory available but I have at least 40GB free space??
Memory = Ram, the 40G free space you are referring to is hard drive storage space available, 2 very different things.
In order to run Lion you MUST have at least a Core 2 Duo processor and 2G of Ram, to find out whether you qualify (and it seems as though you don't) go to
Apple>About this Mac: you will be able to see the processor type and Ram installed thus
If you have less than 2G of Ram you can install more, if however you have a Core Duo (instead of Core 2 Duo) you can not run Lion. -
Transfer Purchase from iPhone 5s to iTunes reducing free space?
Sometime I Transfer Purchases from my iPhone 5s 32GB running iOS 7.0.4 using iTunes 11.1.4 for Mac and recently notice it reduced free space on the iPhone, even before doing any sync from iTunes.. several weeks ago just before Transfer Purchases there was 7GB of free space on the iPhone, after Transfer Purchases there's only 5.3GB left, I restart the phone and there's 5.9GB left
Today there's 5.7GB free space, after Transfer Purchase there's only 4.3GB left, after restart the phone 4.7GB left
Wondering what Transfer Purchase actually doing with the phone that increase the storage usage up to more than 1GB permanently..? and how do I reclaim those free space?Hi,
Read this http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
Jim -
Mac Pro Book
Mac OS X 10.7.5
iPhoto 11 9.4.2
importing photos into iphoto, shows "Photo cannot import your photos because there is not enough free space on the volume containing your iPhoto library."
tried creat new library, same thing.
currently only has 2,500 photos in iPhoto
Importing about 500 photos, but cant do it due to the message showed above.
Who knows how to fix it?How much free space do you have on your hard drive? Try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete iPhoto's cache file, Cache.db, that is located in your
User/Home/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder (Snow Leopard and Earlier).
or with Mt. Lion from the User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto/
Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.iPhoto folder
3 - launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: If you're moved your library from its default location in your Home/Pictures folder you will have to point iPhoto to its new location when you next open iPhoto by holding down the Option key when launching iPhoto. You'll also have to reset the iPhoto's various preferences.
NOTE 2: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder. -
how to get SQL server Total DB size , Total DB free space , Total Data & Log File Sizes and Total Data & Log File free Sizes from a list of server
Hi Shivanq,
To get a list of databases, their sizes and the space available in each on the local SQL instance.
dir SQLSERVER:\SQL\localhost\default\databases | Select Name, Size, SpaceAvailable | ft -auto
This article is also helpful for you to get DB and Log File size information:
Checking Database Space With PowerShell
I hope this helps. -
Remove or free data from the disk space
Hi All,
How to remove or free data from the disk space. Considering most of the data in the directories are junk.
Is there any T-code from the appliaction layer or we have to do at operating system or database level.
Regards,
JitenderHi,
As far as i know we canot delete data from data files.But i think u can shrink the file.
But not suggestable.You can delete the juck or old data in the usr/trans/log/files.
Also delete the files in usr/sap/trans/eps/in.
Regards,
Vamshi. -
I have just switched from windows and bought myself a new mac mini, only had it a few weeks and already getting message not enough free space. Help, surely cant be out of space already
It sounds unlikely of course. But from your question it's hard to tell what might have filled your HDD. Are you constantly on file sharing or has filled the drive with movies?
Best way to tell is to start checking what folders occupy space. "Get Info" for the HDD and its subfolders is a way to start checking where the data in question resides.
And as BGreg say, call Apple support is also a good way to begin with. -
Why has my iPad1 stopped loading photos from my camera? I have 40G of free space.
Why has my iPad1 stopped loading photos from my camera? I have >40G of free space. It worked fine the first 3 times and then stopped. I also tried the SD card adapter and it doesn't recognize it either.
Are you using iCloud photo library beta.
Are any of your photos actually video. -
Unable to sync iPad to iMac. Get message 'iPad can't be synced because not enough free space to hold items in iTunes Library'. Only major content is iTunes U stuff (lots of videos). Don't download any music or other videos to iPad.
Deleted iTunesU content on iPad and unticked iTunes U from syncing on iMac but message remains.
Very frustrating.No longer a problem. After leaving a while and trying again the iPad and iMac successfully synced.
-
Cant reclaim free space from deleted trace file in bdump
Hi ,
Os : IBM aix 5.3
Oracle : oracle 10.2.0.3 enterprise edition
My /oracle space is only 2gb remaining .
i deleted more 2gb trace files from bdump folder but when i check on os for free space its still showing that only 2gb is remaining for /oracle
plz help me guys................Hi,
You need to kill the OS PID's accessing the dump directory FS to get space released ..Refer below, how it can be done
[oracle9i@M6UAT-DB:/home/oracle9i>]pwd
/oracle/product/admin/M6CORP/udump
[oracle9i@M6UAT-DB:/home/oracle9i>]fuser -c /oracle/product/admin/M6CORP/udump
/oracle/product/admin/M6CORP/udump: 102612c 213018c 278544 327850c 340170c 356426c 466986c 495782c 516276c 565368c 610416c 626822c 647266c 696352c 704692c 708632c 745654c 753666c 766036c 778448c 794750c 798966c 852002c 864438c 880678c 884826c 892980c 905248c 925944c 938066c 950490c 958478c 966900c 974924c 979180c 991400c 1007816c 1015990c 1028342c 1032316c 1040494c 1044584c 1048790c 1064962c 1069198c 1077448c 1114204c 1130594c 1143014c 1146978c 1175638c 1191982c 1196276c 1216524c 1241106c 1249470c 1253520c 1261794c 1278186c 1290380c 1302720c 1306640c 1343604c 1347682c 1351874c 1355950c 1359928c 1372280c 1380602c 1384452c 1405106c 1454216c 1458424c 1462418c 1474594c 1482906c 1511456c 1515552c 1523846c 1527914c 1544408c 1548308c 1552392c 1560670c 1564732c 1568938c 1581288c 1597468c 1601616c 1630268c 1634464c 1650836c 1654816c 1667186c 1679502c 1683656c 1687722c 1695962c 1700028c 1703952c 1712276c 1720546c 1728524c 1732832c 1736736c 1744946c 1749098c 1757358c 1761474c 1769496c 1777784c 1781850c 1785944c 1789966c 1798162c 1806568c 1822912c 1851628c 1855700c 1867794c 1871934c 1892562c 1900660c 1904794c 1908936c 1917174c 1921244 1929398c 1937446c 1945762c 1957936c 1962036c 1994984c 1998914c 2039896c 2044122c 2060456c 2064548c 2068632c 2072672c 2076892c 2084908c 2089162c 2101466c 2105384c 2109494c 2125952c 2130136c 2134050c
[oracle9i@M6UAT-DB:/home/oracle9i>]kill -9 102612 213018 278544 327850 340170 356426 466986 495782 516276 565368 610416 626822 647266Thanks,
Ajay More
http://moreajays.blogspot.com -
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?
Maybe you are looking for
-
I am trying to discover if I am eligible to TRY Adobe Illustrator. I have the monthly subscription for Photoshop. There are no problems with it just that I have been learning from sources that the images from Photoshop are raster not vector and I n
-
<IMG height= src="http://grou ps. google.com/img/dot_clear.gif" width=2><B><FONT color=#ffffff></B> I have a problem loading ASIO drivers with my Audigy 2 NX / USB sound card. My PC is a HP Pavillion ZD8000 laptop, with 52Mb RAM and a 60GB dri've,Win
-
Can't Update iTunes = Can't Update iPhone
In order to update my iPhone 3GS (currently version 3.1.2) to OS 4, it seems that I have to update iTunes to version 10. The caveat is that with OSX Tiger (10.4.11) I can't do that. Any ideas on updating my iPhone without having to buy Leopard? (Work
-
Is theri an Adobe fee to export/publish a Muse designed site with a third party host?
-
Which Mac Pro Graphics Card For A Multimedia Installation with 4 Projectors?
Hi All, I'm looking for advice on a multimedia installation I'm working on as part of my thesis. Essentially I need to use my Mac Pro to run a multimedia installation that will use four projectors (Full HD) all displaying as one logical display. I th