Is it only Filevault that recovers disk space?

Hey all,
i wanted to know is it only Filevault that can recover disk space or can the basic Home folder do this as well? Thanx for any replies in advance

FileVault is using a sparse disk image just like the ones you can create with disk utility.
Your data is encrypted and written to the hard drive as a growing disk image. When logging into your account the image gets mounted and your data appears unencrypted within a virtual disk. The more files you add to your homefolder (= the virtual disk), the more data has to be encrypted and stored on your harddrive so the image file grows. When you delete files within your homefolder there's a difference in size between the virtual disk and the image file on your computer. Mac OS reclaims the unused hard drive space by shrinking the disk image.
Only disk images need this kind of treatment and there's no other way to recover disk space besides actually deleting some files, which is what you're doing anyway.
There are a few ways to recover space:
- delete unused cache files in /username/Library/Caches
- remove language files for applications using http://www.bombich.com/software/local.html
- ....

Similar Messages

Shutdown postponed by message asking if FileVault should recover disk space

Does anyone know how to specify a default preference for handling this message? After selecting "shutdown" and agreeing to "shutdown now", several seconds later, after having walked away from the screen, and then glancing back, I find I am then prompted to answer "continue or cancel" before shutdown can proceed. This is annoying, as I expect the system to be able to shut down after I instructed it to. Further, this message interferes with the system's ability to automatically shut down cleanly when the UPS detects an electrical power failure. Following is the text of the message: Your home folder, which is protected by FileVault, is using more disk space than necessary. FileVault can recover this space. Would you lke to continue? When you click continue, FileVault will recover the unused disk space. Although this takes a while and you cannot stop it, it's recommended that you let FileVault recover the disk space now.
iMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Why is it so many of the questions I need answers to, others have asked, but not gotten a solution to either?
The filevault reclaim space warning is very frustrating when combined with Timbuktu. If you attempt to restart a computer remotely that is protected by filevault, and the warning about reclaiming space comes up, you are stuck. The Timbuktu process has already been stopped. I've found that I can SSH into the box, and I can likely kill the process responsible for the reclaim space warning, but it would be nice to just have the box timeout after a few seconds, and default to Cancel.
Does this happen with RDC (or the VNC client built into 10.4?)
Dual G4 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Does filevault use more disk space?

Does filevault use more disk space than when not using it? I'm running an SSD drive and need to keep usage to a minimum. Thx

The difference is about 200 MB, regardless of the size of the volume.

Automatic yes to allow filevault to recover disk space

When ever I shutdown/restart, there is a dialog box that pops up notifying me that FileVault is taking up more space than necessary and it asks if I would like to recover this space (I already under stand the hole expanding disk image thing, so we can leave that alone). As long as I am not in a hurry, I say yes, which is most of the time. It gets annoying when I shut down, and run off to do other things (some times I get ADD moments while waiting for the dialog box) while I think the computer is shutting down only to come back and see the dialog box.
Is there any way to set this so that it does not even ask me, and just automatically recovers the disk space?

Is there any way to set this so that it does not even ask me, and just automatically recovers the disk space?
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I doubt it, but there might be an "automatic no" available if you don't want to recover the space. I don't have a laptop to test this, but I've read that if you unplug a laptop Mac from the wall electricity, it won't display that dialog box.

I recently bought the newest macbook pro with only 120 GB of disk space I need to upgrade and was wondering if this would work with my computer 500GB New Sata 2.5" hard drive?

I bought the newest macbook pro 13" with only 120 GB of space. I quickly used all of the space up and need a lot more. I was wondering if this disk is compatible with the model i have.
500GB New Sata 2.5" hard drive

Your best practical option is buying a 1TB external HD for $65
The "low" capacity of the SSD on the Air and entry level Retina are meant to be working platforms for these computers.
Meaning ALL your programs and your working data (stuff you use at least every week).
To try to use either the Air or Retina as a storage platform of any king (lots of pics, music, movies etc.) is both not indicated or practical.
external storage, quality too, is absurdly cheap right now.
You asked:
These are very expensive theres no way that an hdd drive would be compatible with my Mac?
yes, a superslim external HD.
see this: only 7mm thick
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Portable-External-Drive/dp/B009F1CXI2/ref=s r_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1377642728&sr=1-1&keywords=toshiba+slim+500gb
Or better still this HUGE HD, which is very small, very reliable and very cheap:
2 Terabytes, 2.5" and only $119
http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Canvio-Basics-Portable-HDTB120XK3CA/dp/B00ARJD56K

It says I only have 313MB of disk space...

Just a month or so ago...I had about 60 or 70 GB left...I have seen it slowly dwindling away and now it is down to 313 MB. *** is going on? I tried calling Apple and they kept on transferring me...we tried a couple of things...nothing worked, they don't know where my memory is going...
HELP!

+RE: We cleared all of that stuff when talking to apple care...There is absolutely no way I used 60 GB of space in a month...+
Well, clearly something is using that space, and clearly you haven't found it yet. Trust me - the space didn't just magically disappear, something is occupying it!
I would download and use WhatSize (http://www.id-design.com/software/whatsize/). It's 1 MB in size, so if you have 300 MB available you have enough space (and enough for Disk Inventory X too, I just find WhatSize a little easier to use).
So, download it and run it. Click on your HDD and it will catalog everything on there (including invisible items, which show up as filenames beginning with a period). Folders and files are color coded by size, so look through the red items to see what's eating your space.
If it's something you can obviously delete, go ahead. If it's something you're unsure of, an invisible file, or inside an invisible folder, post back for advice on whether it's ok to delete it (note that the OS makes files invisible to prevent you from inadvertantly deleting them!).
Hope this helps...

My Macbook Pro keeps on saying that my disk space is full (startup Disk space) how or what do I need to do to resolve this as it is preventing me downloading all software updates?

Can someone help?

it actually says this "You need 5.34 GB of available space to download and install the updates. To increase available space, remove files from your startup disk, and then try again."
Don't even know how to do what it is asking me to do, can I get some direction?

Disk space problems

Hi guys, have looked around everywhere for some help on this topic but no-one seems to be having the same problem and it's quite hard to know what to search for:
Have been trying to free up space on my HD as I'm aware it's not good to have anywhere near only 10% of free space. The problem I have is deleting large folders and files and emptying trash is not increasing the available disk space at the bottom of the finder window.
I have even used programs like MacKeeper which found and deleted 30GB of unwanted/unnecessary files yet when I go back to check in finder (or Disk utility for that matter) disk space remains the same.
One thing I have noticed however is that "Macintosh HD" seems to have 30Gb of free space and my personal folder seems to have roughly the same amount of free space making around 60GB total free space but this is not picked up on disk utility.
I have seen some comments on the web about filevault causing problems but don't really know where to begin...
My computer does seem to be performing much better since I've started cleaning it up so am now wondering whether the free space has been increased but it's just being reported wrongly
Any input would be much appreciated..
Cheers!

Your FileVault is saved by OS X as a sparsebundle (something like "onjegolders.sparsebundle"), and each time you log into your account it has to be mounted. This mounted volume always expands when you create new files in your Home folder, but it doesn't shrink when you delete files. When you log out, OS X checks if there's free space in your sparsebundle, and it will try to shrink your Filevault to recover any free space.
For example, my FileVault is usually under 1GB. Last week, I had a lot of videos in my Home folder that I was trying to burn to DVD. It caused my FileVault to expand to 27GB. After I burned the videos to DVD, I deleted them and emptied my Trash bin, then restarted my computer. When I logged back in, my FileVault was back down under 1GB.
If your FileVault doesn't reclaim space after rebooting, you might try to verify/repair your sparsebundle (➚). Other people indicate it may be a matter of corrupted files (➚) preventing FileVault from shrinking. If you have less than 15GB of data in your FileVault, you could also just try turning off FileVault temporarily, and then turning it back on to force it to build a new sparsebundle.

How do i recover disk space after deleting windows partition?

I have a macbook pro running on maverick. I removed the windows partition using bootcamp assistant, but I did not gain the disk space back. The disk space is 500gb but it's still showing 250gb?

Yes, that matters. So your partition map looks something like this:
You see one single space surrounded in blue with the disk name in the center, sort of like the above. But, you say that this space is only 250 GBs of your 500 GB drive. In other words the space in the Size field reads 250 GBs, mol? Am I correct in my understanding?
I suggest you might give this a try: repair the hard drive using Disk Utility. Then restart the computer. See if that recovers the space. It would also help if you could send me a screen image like mine but of your Disk Utility display on the same settings.

Free disk space

When I select my HDD in finder and select Get Info it reports that I have 150GB of free disk space, however when I run disk utility it reports that there is only 55GB of free disk space. What is going on? Where is that 95GB discrepancy being used? How do I reclaim it?

See if this helps elucidate:
The Storage Display

Rapidly disappearing disk space - 19GB windowserver.log?

Hi,
I noticed that my disk space has been rapidly disappearing recently - now at the rate of 50-100MB per minute!!! Couldn't figure out for the life of me where it was going. I ran Disk Inventory X and it is showing that the file windowserver.log is currently up to about 19GB! I don't even know what this file is for but I know that it's not supposed to be THAT big. And continuing to grow every minute. After a restart I jump back up to about 43GB of free space but it doesn't last. Also the comp (MacBook Pro 2.16 Core2 Duo) is running really hot, currently between 145 and 150 F with only finder and firefox running. Can anyone tell me what is going on here?
Thanks.

Hi--
Go to your System Preferences and look at the "Accounts" preferences. Select your user account on the left hand side, then look at the "Login Items" tab. If you have any items there besides "iTunes Helper", make a note of what they are and delete them, then reboot and see if the problem goes away. If it does, add back your login items one by one and see if one of them causes problems again.
If you've installed new software recently, and see an item in that list that relates to you new software, just delete it and reboot, maybe it's just that one piece of software.
charlie

ISE VM install question related to Disk Space on VMDK

Hi all, and thanks in advance for any help/advice you can offer.
We recently licensed for 10 ISE VM instances in our environment. We are trying to install the 3945 OVA file and it is forcing us to allocate 600GB for the appliance in the VMDK. Per the install guide, however, the PSN only requires 200GB of disk space. This install will be for a PSN persona eventually, once its built and added to a deployment. So do we have to burn 400Gb for this? I am being told by the VM team that once the 600GB is allocated in the VMDK, it will not be able to be changed later to 200GB. I am told it can expand, but there is no option to shrink the disk size to 200GB. Almost seems as though the OVA should have been made to require a 200GB partition, then you could expand that to 300GB for Admin persona's and more for Monitoring persona's. As it stands, without the option to shrink the drive size, we are wasting 400GB unless I am missing something. Thus I am asking for your help!
Install guide where VM disk sizing is specified is located at:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/security/ise/1-3/installation_guide/b_ise_InstallationGuide13/b_ise_InstallationGuide12_chapter_011.html#ID-1417-000000d9
Thank you,
Jeff

Hello Prasad,
I am not sure what database are will be using in your system.
Check SAPnotes # 799639 "Hardware Requirements" and # 956921- IDES ERP 2005 ECC 6.0.
Here are databse approximations :
The database sizes are:
ORACLE: 200 GB
MaxDB: 180 GB
MSSQL: 150 GB
DB2-UDB 150 GB
DB2 on iSeries 240 GB
I can't comment on RAM size as i am not aware number of users, functionalities you will be using etc.
for this you can create a project under http://service.sap.com/sizing. You will get a close approximation.
This is a easy self guided procedure and its good, you can get a close hardware approximation thought this quick sizer tool.
Regarding processor its up to you. You can call vendors and check according to your budget.
Best Regards
NIraj

Media Cache Folder taking up 80GB disk space

Hi everyone,
I recently bought a Sony VAIO S with Adobe Premiere Elements 8 preinstalled, and ripped my CD collection into iTunes. I opened Premiere Elements and created a project to see what sort of features were included, but didn't import any media or capture any video.
I (even more) recently found that my disk space had dropped by roughly 80 GB, seemingly due to the Adobe Media Cache folder. It would seem that Premiere has been running some sort of background service (my suspicions are on ElementsAutoAnalyzer.exe, a program that reappeared briefly after I 'cleaned' the cache folder) that has imported my AAC iTunes music collection into the Media section in Premiere, and in the process uncompressed all 7 GB of my 256KB/s AAC music into 80GB of 16bit/48KHz PCM, copied to the Adobe Media Cache Folder in C:\Users\me\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Common\Media Cache\Media Cache Files
My questions are:
- Can I delete the Media Cache Folder without causing problems with Premiere?
- Can I prevent Premiere from adding all my media automatically (and uncompressing it in the process)? I don't mind not having all my music in the 'Media' sidebar of Premiere, I can just import the music I need.
Specs (if they help): Sony VAIO S, Intel i3 330M, GMA HD, 4GB RAM, Win 7 HP 64 bit. Premiere Elements 8.0.1. I also have PSE installed.
Thanks in advance,
Jim.

Hello again Bill,
     Scratch disks are on F:
     Win 7 64 Q8400 @ 2.66 8GB ram
     (sata) don't know if that's the controller
     C: 150GB velociraptor system & programs 17 free (until I delete cache)
     F: 500GB 7200rpm scratch 262 free
     G: 1TB 7200rpm   raw 202 free - having to off load occasionally to archive disk,
      I hope I have followed Harm's recommendations on allocation of disks, only have the three separate.
     Thanks for the fast responce.
     Dennis

Conserving disk space solution

Hi all pros!
I need help with conserving my disk space. I have a total diskspace of around 40016070 gig's = 630 gig's
I was confident it would be enough, but it has shown to be not near enough.
Before I go out to get more disks I need to check with the forums if I could solve the issue by compressing the dv-files.
What takes up all the disk space is a project that involves about 5x2x5 hrs= 50 hours of DV material. Its footage of a 5 day course that needs to be produced for dvd distribution. The footage also needs to be stored as backup. But it simply takes up too much disk space.
I tried to compress the captured dv-files to h.264 .mov files which came out extremely well except for that it could of course not be edited in FCP, which is greatly dissapointing.
I have about 50 dv-files that are around 5-10 gigs each = 250-500 gigs. Is there anyway that i could do to compress these dv files to a format that could still be edited with FC and replace the larger dv files by reconnecting them in FCP?
The files i compressed with h.264 were about 1/10 of the size of the dv-files without loosing anything in matter of quality. Weeee! However, they were useless since they couldnt be edited or reconnected into my FCP project.
I need to do this because after the DVDs are ready I would like to store the raw captured files as backup rather than deleting them.
In addition, I would like to know if there are, or will be, any better solutions for digital video than DV-cams? I've heard that there will be cameras that record directly on hard-drives that cost 5000$ each. I hope they have another format than dv that uses disk-space more effectively like h.264.
Best regards

If you don't need to keep ALL of the footage and just what you used in the final edit, you could capture the material as OfflineRT directly from the DV camera masters... then recapture and keep only what is used in the edit... OfflineRT will allow you to capture about 8 times as much material as DV does.
There are new solid state cameras coming from Panasonic, but the file sizes will be larger, not smaller.. they are HD cameras... will run about $6,000 US plus storage and can record to hard drives, or to PC cards (P2 cards) The PC cards then can be copied to hard drives and reused... they are expensive right now per gig, but you can count on that price going down... Check out this: http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ModelDetail?displayTab=O &storeId=11201&catalogId=13051&itemId=93120&catGroupId=14616&modelNo=AG-HVX200&s urfModel=AG-HVX200
I'm drooling over this format... no tape, no tape and solid state... cool very cool, TRUE HD (NOT HDV)...
Jerry

Disk space full

I keep getting notifications telling me that my disk space is almost used up on my MacBook Pro. What are some good ways to free up space without having to delete videos and pictures? I'm looking for ways to delete unecessary files, I just don't know where to look... Thanks!

Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
Then reboot. That will temporarily free up some space.
According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
If you're using Time Machine to back up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of files you've recently deleted. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as "Backups." The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself.
To locate large files, you can use Spotlight. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one.
Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
Back up all data now.
Install ODS in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
Triple-click the line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders. It may take some minutes for ODS to list all the files.
I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
When you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal.

Is it only Filevault that recovers disk space?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for