Hd space vanished (parallels)...

just installed parallels desktop and win xp pro, iv seen in places about 40 gig been takin up by it for win hd, i installed it anyway and parallels had a 32 gig hd image for win that was an expanding one so it was suposedly 0kb and expanded as u needed it... except 40 gig vanished from my mac hd... i deleted the hd image and created a new one that was only 10 gig but the 30 odd gig didnt turn up... anyone any idea where i might find this hd space thats vanished??

What I do is use Grand Perspective (http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/)
It shows you what is eating up your hard drive.
I'm not sure if it will help or not, but I hope it does!

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Once again storage space vanishes

What is going on with the latest iOS and space disappearing? Yesterday I put my phone on charge with 7.8 gb of free space reported. I pick it up an hour or so later and now just 7.4 gb free. So I lost nearly half a gig doing precisely nothing!!!! The same tonight, after deleting some apps earlier I got back to about 8 gigs free, charge phone and a couple hours later am down to 7.5 gig free. This is a joke, space vanishes from time to time for no good reason. I know other can grow through caching etc but this is ridiculous. I haven't even sync'd with iTunes which can cause other to grow largely, I don't need to as I use iTunes match - which I haven't been using in last couple days so cannot be blamed for the loss of space. Where does it go? I have used all the file browser programs too. There is no rhyme or reason, the space just vanishes over time. It had taken a few months to drop by 0.1 gigs here and there. But yesterday and tonight to lose somewhere approaching 0.8 gigs to doing nothing is a particular slap in the face. The only thing I have done is shuffle the position of some apps around on the various home screens and created a group folder. Could this be the trigger, a glitch in the matrix!!!??
Its also evident on my iPad and my wifes iPad from time to time. Space just seems to dwindle. I wish Apple could address this aspect better. It has to be cloud related and seems prevalent in both iOS8 and also was the same in iOS7 (albeit to a lesser extent).

maybe another theory is something to do with icloud backup. It's using space up attempting to create a daily backup and not releasing the space again. Perhaps I took it off charge as it was preparing it, though I think unlikely. and that wouldn't explain the sudden loss of space in each instance. Could be app updates, and ios again not releasing space. I checked cloud assets in iphone explorer and there is nothing significant in here. I logged out of iTunes account as that can release cached space. I got a groundbreaking 0.1 gigs back. Something not good about sudden space loss. It does not reconcile under usage. Claims 19.2 gigs used up. I added up evwry entry under here and it only adds to 16.2. So a whole 3 gigs cannot be accounted for! I did the same yesterday before today's loss and it didn't reconcile again (it never does) but it was only 2.5 gigs difference. So evident 0.4/0.5 gigs has just vanished into thin air.

20gb of Disk Space Vanishes? On it's own?

Hi guys, I'm a long time mac user and have never seen anything like this.
I run a 2.53gz MBP 5,1. with 4gb of ram and 320gb HD. I have the drive partitioned with a 60gb NTFS bootcamp partition for WindowsXP that I use with Parallels 4. I use Time Machine to backup to a 2tb WD drive.
So, I've been running the machine all day long with approximately 24.5gb of disk space. I left my desk around 6:00 today and I just came back to find a low disk space error and saw that I only had 1.8gb left, and watched it drip down to 1.5, 1.3 and 1.1gb right in front of my eyes without doing anything at all! I rebooted and now the computer has been sitting steady at 5.7gb. I looked through my timemachine archive to earlier in the day and the last update was right after I left (with 24.5gb of disk space left) the next update is inexplicably at 1.7gb. I did get info on all the main folders in my root directory (Applications, Library, System & Users) and the identical folders now and there is almost no difference whatsoever in folder size! Yet, when you look at the bottom of the window in the time machine reference from a few hours earlier it says 24.5gb available, and then go back to the "now" window it says 5.7gb available...
I'm totally baffled. approximately 19gb of disk space just completely vanished and I can't account for the change or the increase in used disk space anywhere.
The only recent update was the Security Update 2010-001 that was issued on the 19th.
I have tried to restart. Reset the PRAM. Checked the SMART status using Disk Utility. Everything checks out.
The only thing I could possibly point to is an issue with Bootcamp and the NTFS drive. However I was not running bootcamp or parallels when this happened.
Time Machine was stuck at "Calculating Changes... (15%)" when I came back and the Time Machine drive is nearly full...but I don't think this should matter.
Also Time Machine hasn't completed a full backup since the drive was at it's original 24.5gb. I'm wondering if it got stuck when doing a backup and somehow is confused between what is backed up and what isn't and there is disk space being "held" somewhere by time machine somehow.
Any suggestions on what happened to the mystery 19gb?
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The two swap files sound OK, you will always have at least one of approximately 60MBs. The sleepimage is also normal: it will be about the size of the RAM you have, and contains the content of your actual RAM. The point being that if you put your computer into hibernate, or for a laptop the battery runs out of juice, when the machine is again brought back into action it can resume from where it was when things were stopped. So that is normal.
It sounds like perhaps a run-away log file could be responsible. You might take a look in
/private/var/log
Arrange by size and see what you've got. My biggest one is the folder for DiagnosticMessages, at 5MBs. Everything else is in the KB range.
If that doesn't turn up the culprit you can use the Terminal commands.
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I am trying to resize disk space on parallels 6 for windows XP under configure Hardrive and I get the error resizing failed unable to resize last volume the file system of this volume might be damaged or not supported? I am on a Mac using Parallels 6

I have been trying to increase my disk space for windows xp on my Imac and I am running parallels 6. before opening windows I go into configure in parallels and open the hard drive and try to move the allotted disk space from 32 gig to 64 or any other increased gig and then apply and I get the error message: resizing failed unable to resize last volume. The file system of this volume might be damaged or not supported. How do I increase the size?? I just also did a disk repair utility with Apple on the Apple side of my IMAC. Please Help!! I had uninstalled SQL server on the windows side and needed to uncompress files to install this and then I ran short on disk space.

This sounds to me that your Parallels XP file system is corrupted and not the OSX file system.
Have you checked the XP file system while running the Parallels XP yet ?
However, it would be better to ask such question in the Parallels Forum http://forum.parallels.com/
Stefan

Reclaim space from Parallels

When I go to "About this Mac", it claims that I have 815gb of free space left but whenever I try to install something, it says that the disk space is about 50gb less than what I have. For example, today I went to install Origin but the disk space I have left it says there's about 760gb left. This has happened since I've installed Parallels and made a Windows VM. I've deleted the Windows VM and Parallels a long way ago and I've check disk utility and there's no other partition. What could be the problem and how can I solve it? Thanks...

Fair enough, but it was'nt in your post and it is surprising how many times that gets missed and help asked for on the forum.
If Vikings suggestion does not help you could try this type of application to determine how your disk space is used, it is available from the app store. There are probably other similar applications around as well.
http://www.daisydiskapp.com/?source=mas

Windows 7 Disk Space on Parallels 10

I have recently installed windows 7 on parallels 10. It has allocated 64gb of hard disk space to the virtual machine. After I installed windows 7 and some other software programs (Revit 2013, AutoCAD 2015 & Microsoft Office 2013) I was left with only 19gb left. Windows prompted me to install a whole list of updates for Windows 7 (2gb worth). However, once I downloaded these and had them installed I was left with only 9gb of disk space! Does this sound right?
I am only running a few programs on my windows virtual machine. I understand some of the programs I am running can be a bit demanding on disk space however, when I look at the requirements for these programs the amount of disk space being used does not add up (Revit approx.5gb, AutoCAD 2015 approx. 6gb, Microsoft Office Professional 2013 approx. 3gb). I read somewhere that Windows 7 64-bit should take up approx.20gb. Given this, and the requirements of the other programs I have mentioned, It should leave me with approx.29gb of disk space available. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

In Windows, there is a program called Disk Cleanup. If you run that and delete all but the most recent restore points, you may be surprised at how much space is recovered. I use VMware Fusion rather than Parallels but Fusion supports the ability to "reclaim" space on the VM drive. I suspect Parallels offers something similar.

HD Space Vanishing Act

Hi,
I am a recent switcher and got a 2.0GHz MacBook for Christmas - it's da bomb and I'll never use a PC again. However, it came with a 74.5 GB hard drive (usable space - already formatted), and yet only 52.9 GB is usable! OS X ships on a DVD, so that's probably 4.7 GB gone (unless it's a DVD 9) - which leaves just over 70 GB. I haven't installed any of my own apps, only 155 5MP digital snaps and my 300 song iTunes collection encoded at 168kbps MP3. Those do not take nearly 20 GB I'm sure!
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Hey there, congrats on your Mac. Sounds like a lot of used up memory. I know when i got my Mac fresh out of the box, i had about 15Gb already used up since Mac OS X is a pretty big system, aside from the iLife that comes preinstalled, you get a lot of stuff out of the box that you wont need. Since you havent done much to it, you could reinstall and do a custom and install and only put in the software you plan on using. If you dont make music, dont install garage band Ithat saves you a GB or so right there), no websites, dont install iWeb, etc. If you cant omit each one in the custom install (because iLife is a whole package), maybe use software like AppDelete and remove them after the fact. Either way, you have to manually free up some space yourself by deleting what you dont need.

150 Gbs of Disk Space Vanished

Hello Everyone!
     Recently I have been EXTREMLEY frustrated with my computer. I was recently trying to free up some space on my mac, and I found out I have already taken up 300 Gbs of harddrive space out of 500 Gbs. So I did some poking around, and 250 Gbs were taken up on my personal profile. My Documents only have about 11 Gbs in it, I have 60 Gbs of Photos and Videos, and the rest in other places. But looking at each folder in my personal profile only brought up 100 Gbs total. There is 150 Gbs that just are not there.
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Well thank you Allan!
It seems most of it was allocated to my Steam folder, which makes sense! Since I am moving my video games over to my PC side, I guess I can delete those... Still searching for more, but that took up 80 Gbs. I have a feeling I will find useless stuff somewhere else.
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Disk space vanished

Hello out there!
I was just "cleaning out" my mac to get some free disk space when I noticed something odd: all my folders sum up to a total of about 52GB, but when I get the info for my hard drive, it tells me i have 85GB of used disk space! That is a **** of a lot of memory missing. I tried to delete cache, but no visible result... What is going on here?

This should help:
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Note that since there are currently no (zero) viruses that affect Mac OS X, it may be a waste of time for you to run NAV at all. And if you do want to keep using NAV, updating to the latest version would certainly be preferable to suffering the spacesuckingfile.XXXXX bug again.

Disk space vanishing, other strange behavior

In the last two days TechTool has been announcing that my free disk space is getting low. Started at 15%, but it keeps dropping down to 1%. I've deleted about 100GB of data in the last two days, but it isn't helping.
Checked my log files which aren't ridculously big. None of my processes are using a fraction of the 160GB+ it shows as being allocated to VM. Some strange log entries in console related to MacHelper, but I don't think I ever installed it. Ran an uninstaller just in case.
Prior to this happening some other odd things have been happening for a week or so:
External drives aren't dismounting correctly. Click eject and the name remains grayed out and if I unplug the drive I get chided for removing a drive.
System hangs and requires forced restart. Hangs during restart on the desktop image.
Had some trouble with an external e-sata drive dismounting all the time using the card slot adaptor for e-Sata. Card would get extremely hot. Used FW800 but had strange behavior with 5 additional drives reminiscent of SCSI. Once I changed the cables around it stopped doing this.

You may not have gotten all of MacKeeper. From an earlier post of mine:
I'd search for it using EasyFind. Enter "MacKeeper" and "Zeobit." Set EF to scan all files and folders, invisible, case insensitive, package contents. Search using boolean and phrase. It will probably do a more thorough job than Spotlight. If you can't "Destroy" from EF, use Reveal in Finder to trash and authenticate from there.
It is also known to install a Windows emulator called "wine;" search for that.
Also, look in the Keychain for anything MacKeeper or zeobit related, and for its cookies in your browser. When finished, empty the Trash and restart.
http://www.devon-technologies.com/download/index.html
Somehow, as BDAqua suggested, I'm still suspecting it's the logs filling up with a constantly repeating message. Are there any other Users? Can you log in to those and see what's going on with those logs?
Permissons repair has nothing to do with this.
Get OmniDisk Sweeper. Run it logged in to all your users.
http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnidisksweeper/

Hard Drive Spaces Vanishes, MacBook won't start

I am quite perplexed and sad because my MacBook is in a terrible state.
So, I normally have limited hard drive space remaining (1 - 3gb) on my drive, but earlier it started bothering me, telling me I had 400mb left. I then deleted some files and brought it back to 2.2gb left. Within a few minutes, I got another warning the hard drive was almost full. Suddenly, it was down to 146mb remaing, steadily decreasing (the only things open were Adium and Update). Then, it had 0kb left and started telling me to force quit applications. I eventually shut down, and now it won't boot. I turn it on, get the grey apple at the rotating graphic, but it stays there. Ironically, I can still boot windows.
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Thanks

It sounds like you are building up excessive temporary files. What apps are you running? Have you installed apps lately? You should always keep at least 15% of your drive empty at all times.
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Not Again! Window Ultimate Parallels and Bootcamp

I have read hundreds of threads and I don’t want this to be another but I have question that were not specifically answered on not answered at all. I am a life long Windows user and finally made the jump a few months ago. I am a photographer and I have many thousands of dollars in (Windows) software. I considered repurchasing some of them, just keeping an old PC, buying new MAC license for the software that offered it but I have decided to run a dual OS MAC.
Specs:
Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP55.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.47f2
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.1 (10B504)
The big question, Bootcamp or Parallels?
I will use Windows (Vista Ultimate 32bit) for Adobe Master Collection (mainly PS, DW and Flash). I have a few other pieces like Light Room, Aperture and one or two PC only apps. My main uses are minor/moderate .jpg photo retouches/edits in Photoshop and maintain my websites with Dreamweaver.
Questions:
1. With my needs, does it sound like BC or Parallels might be a good fit? (File sharing in mind)
2. What will I see when I fire up the MAC? Will Windows and MAC OS boot at the same time? Is there a choice of what to boot?
3. File Sharing; Can I take an image that I have brought in via iPhoto, edit it in Photoshop and send it back to the iPhoto library?
4. I understand that PS and DW are CPU hogs and not really memory. Is this true and should I take my 2gb of memory up to 4gb?
5..I have seen several comments about a Bootcamp portioned drive being better but no one has explained what that is. Can some one elaborate what that is and is that something done via the Parallels app and if not what is the difference between the Bootcamp partition and what Parallels does?
6.I will keep my online activities on the MAC side except for my ftp transfers for my sites. With this limitation and limited exposure do you think I need to install a virus protection on the windows side? Does loading Windows increase my exposure to viruses?
7.With Parallels, Can I shut down the Windows portion and have it apply all the resources back to the MAC os?
8.I have purchased but not opened Parallels 4.0. I see that 5.0 is out at the same price. Should I go with the new or stick with 4.0 which has been out for a while?
9.For those that say no to Parallels, should I just work with Bootcamp and a jump drive to move files back and forth?
10.Finally, with the specs below, how much space should I partition to carry the load?
*Specs for Parallel:*
Memory Requirements 1 GB of RAM (2 GB recommended to run Windows Vista). Support for any memory configuration (up to 16 GB), without modifying your host system.
Disk Space
Software Installation — 450 MB of available hard drive space for Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac installation (plus space to allocate to your virtual machine).
*Windows Ultimate Specs:* Not sure exactly how much space it eats up.
Min Processor Type: Intel x86 - 1 GHz
Min RAM Size: 1 GB
Min Hard Drive Space: 40 GB
*Adobe Master Collection Specs:*
2GB of RAM (more RAM recommended when running multiple components)
24.3GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on flash-based storage devices)

Questions:
1. Boot Camp. Graphic/processor intensive apps should generally not be run in a virtual environment
2. It will startup in whatever OS you have chosen the computer to boot from
3. Yes
4. Yes..upgrade to 4GB
5. Running Windows through Boot Camp is no different than running it on any other PC...that's why it's better.
6. Of course. Windows is Windows no matter how or what it's installed on. It's still vulnerable to the same viruses.
7. Yes
8. See if you're entitled to free upgrade to Parallels 5
9. That's your call. Nobody can make that decision for you.
10. Depends on how big the hard drive is.

Spaces sliding animation ceases

I have a recurring issue with Spaces where it ceases to do the sliding animation when I switch between Spaces; instead, the windows on the old space vanish over about a tenth of a second while the new ones pop up.
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Hi,
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This hasn't been a problem before but it just went crazy today and all this space vanished...
Any tips? I'm finding it quite hard to work out where this can have gone.
going to try posting this in the ibook section as well.
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Unaccountable space at the beginning of a HTML document.

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