"Minimal Allowable Free Space on Scratch Discs"
I have accidently deleted the number that is next to "Minimal Allowable Free Space on Scratch Disc" in the "System Settings" Box. Can anyone tell me what the default # is? I think it is around 12 thousand and something.
Thanks in advance
10% of your total disk space is a good rule of thumb.
Any less than that and OSX is more likely to run into problems.
Say you have a 250gig harddisk, then you should leave 25gig free. (But I have to be honest, I have found myself using up to only 10gig left, and had no problems.)
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"Other files" eating up disc space causing 'Scratch disc is full'
First off, I have a 3 month old macbook pro running maverick, and I don't use Photoshop anymore. I use sketch. I emptied my trash, and my mail folder is not bigger than 2 gig.
I first noticed there was something wrong when Sketch kept warning me that my "scratch disc is full", and this is hampering my work.
On the left of the attachment you'll see the Storage capacity. On the right we've got a scan by Omnidiscsweeper. Something is definitly wonky here.
As a side note, I did run disc permissions and disc verify. I will attempt a restart now too.About “Other”:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6047
Go step by step and test.
1. Start up in Safe Mode.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
2. Empty Trash.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806
3. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
Select "Library" from the dropdown.
Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes
Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
Empty Trash. Restart.
4. Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
5. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
Local backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
6. Delete old iOS Devices Backup.
iTunes > Preferences > Devices
Highlight the old Backups , press “Delete Backup” and then “OK”.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4946?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
7. Re-index Macintosh HD.
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
8. For more on this and very helpful tips:
http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html -
15% of free space on startup disc is preferred. Fact or Myth.
I see this all the time. Some users say yes, others say no. Can I get a confirmed answer as to which is correct? Thanks for any anticipated input from either school of thought.
shldr2thewheel,
I do not think that there is one pat answer to your question, but "Problems from insufficient RAM and free hard disk space", by Dr. Smoke explains how to determine if your system is at risk. His analysis determines that 10GB free space should be considered the absolute minimum. -
my start up disc is full i have a macbook air, i back everuthing up with time capsule and have movies all my music libraries and photos onto that too so as i have free space, but my max still says my startup disc is full with "other"
First, empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. 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 available 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 as described here. That method may not find large folders that contain a lot of small files.
You can also use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can 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.
Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.
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.
Triple-click the line of text below 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.
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 you're done with ODS, quit it and also quit Terminal. -
help
Direct new captures to the larger drive by setting the Scratch disc tab:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/5612860#5612860
If your System drive has only 35MB free space you had better do something about that. Free up a bit of space on it.
Al -
Disc utility inconsistent free space
Hey guys,
My hard drive reports inconsistent free space using various methods.
When I click "get info" on my Macintosh HD, it reports 18GB free.
When I use disk utility, it reports 7GB free.
After verifying the partition, I ran a disk repair using the disc utility on startup and the free space bumped up to 12GB. Strangely, when I exit startup repair and run disk utility after entering the OS, disk utility still reports 7GB. Re-entering the startup disc utility reports 12GB free space!
My hard drive is an OCZ Vertex II LE 60GB SSD.
Ultimately I am trying to create a partition for bootcamp, but it keeps telling me i have less than 10GB free space. I can understand if "get info" is unable to see certain files due to permissions, but why should disk utility report different values via startup and OS? Is there any way around this so that I can get bootcamp to allow me to create the partition?
Any help would be great, thanks!
-Jonjonlee016 wrote:
Hey guys,
My hard drive reports inconsistent free space using various methods.
When I click "get info" on my Macintosh HD, it reports 18GB free.
When I use disk utility, it reports 7GB free.
Disk Utility will show two different "free" readings, depending on where you look.
Sounds odd, but they're for different purposes. The larger figure, which the Finder and other things will use, is the total free space available.
The second is the amount of free space available for a new partition. It's shown when you select the top line for the drive, click the Partition tab, then select a partition, the "Available" amount may be smaller.
This is because partitions, unlike folders, must occupy contiguous space on a disk. The data on your OSX partition is scattered over it, not all nicely packed together. That's normal, as you add, update, and delete files, not every nook and cranny is used again immediately.
But whether there's 7 GB free or 18, that probably isn't enough to be adding a partition; it's probably too little for OSX to operate well. There's no "hard and fast" rule, but you should always have at least 10 GB or 10% of your OSX drive free; many folks say 15% or more.
You could back up your drive (on two different HDs, to be safe), reformat it to 2 parttions, then restore the backup. But it's going to be very tight, and you'll likely have performance problems because of it.
Try to delete anything you don't need, and/or offload stuff you don't use often and delete it. -
Hello ! i have a question about my Hard's Disc storage space. I have Mac book Pro 11" Retina with hard disk 120 GB . I want to make this update but its impossible because of no free space. And now i want to ask. Its 120 GB full space but i dont know how. It tells me lets say i have 30 GB movies but i dont have anything ! Can you help me with any way ? If i can do something to see what movies let's say means !
Thank you !!Hope this helps.
1. Empty Trash.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10677
2. Start up in Safe Mode
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11212
3. Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
Hold the option key down and click "Go" menu in the Finder menu bar.
Select "Library" from the dropdown.
Library > Mail > V2 > Mailboxes
Delete "Recovered Messages", if any.
Empty Trash. Restart.
4. Repair Disk
Steps 1 through 7
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836
5. Disk space / Time Machine ?/ Local Snapshots
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4878
6. Re-index Macintosh HD
System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409
If this does not help, you have to buy an external HD and move your movies photos.etc to
the external HD. -
How can I add new content in iDVD to a DVD-RW disc with a video previously successfully recorded on it? (The disc has ample remaining free space.)
After preparing the new video for burning and clicking in the File menu on Burn to iDVD, I get a window saying the disc's already recorded and that I can either Erase or Eject. My assumption has been that iDVD would automatically find the free space and continue with the new recording from there. I'd be grateful if anyone can shine light on this.There are, but not with a DVD written as a movie disk. It must be closed when completed, or it doesn't work.
Apple's built in Burn utility also automatically closes any data CD, DVD or Blu-ray disk you burn. Doesn't matter how much space is unused, you can't use it. You'd have to use a more advanced disk creation app, such as Toast Titanium. I then have the option of choosing to write the data as a session:
I can keep doing this until the disk is full. If I've written five sessions to the disk, when I put it in the drive, five CD/DVD icons will appear on the desktop since the OS will treat each session as if they are separate physical disks. At any point you choose Write Disk when writing a group of data, that means you're closing the disk, and again can't add anything after that. So if I had written two sessions, and the third was Write Disk, it's over. I can't put anything else on that disk. -
When I try to download this I get a message that says I haven't got sufficient space on my startup disk. I have checked my available space on the disc and I have only 3GB free out of 500. I have hardly anything on my mac - how can this be?
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion's 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. -
The disc inserted does not have enough free space
I created a disk image about 451 MB, it an Audio Disk. When I try to write the image to a blank Memorex CD-R 700 MB I get the message: "The disc inserted does not have enough free space".
When I created the image I used the disk utility and followed the help file instructions. When I open File> New> I can only select "disk image from folder", the other option is grayed out.wow, this is my first real disappointment with my MacBook. I can't burn images, technical support didn't get me any further than I already was. I spent half a day trying everything in the world to burn an image with no success.(followed all the help instructions) Now I have to go into the Apple store to have them go through all the same stuff I went through today. Two days of working on this computer to burn a CD with no success.
My guess is that at the end of the day tomorrow I will walk away from the store with no computer because of a malfunction. What a wasted weekend. -
Why is Photoshop giving me this error when I'm not working on files that are that big given the amount of free space on my computer? They're around 1.5 megs each, .jpeg files (not even PSD files) and I'm only trying to resize them to smaller, nothing fancy at all. Can't even open and do one without getting the scratch disk full error - but it's not full when I look at my C:/ drive (even in PS when I check the scratch disks under Preferences you can see the multiple gigs free).
Help anyone?
Thanks!
CThe rule of thumb I follow to figure out scratch space says to figure on 50 to 100 times the size of your largest file ever multiplied by the number of files you have open. I have seen the scratch file exceed 800 GB once, an admittedly rare occurrence, but it often exceeds 200 GB when stitching large panoramas and the like.
As an example—and stressing that I'm aware that others have even more scratch space than I do—I keep two dedicated, physically separate hard drives as my primary and secondary Photoshop scratch disks and a lot of GB free on my boot drive for the OS. I also have 16 GB of RAM installed.
Additionally, if you only have a single HD, i.e. your boot drive, you'd need it to be large enough to accommodate both the swap files of the OS as well as Photoshop's scratch. -
After clicking "Download," the iMac seems to download photos from iPhone. Eventually, I get message that I need to free up space on Startup Disc by deleting files. What to do?
You are in a very dangerous situation and you need to fix it now.
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do.
Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk. -
"Disc inserted does not have enough free space"
I am ready to burn my slideshow on a DVD. The info window in the project indicates that I am well within the parameters to fit on a DVD (4.7 GB). All the gauges are green. However, when I go to burn the disk I get the error message: "Disc inserted does not have enough free space". Looking at the info palette from the Finder window regarding the disk image, I find that it requires 5.8 GB, which, of course, won't fit. How come the iDVD project says I am good to go when I am not?
I have OSX 10.4.11 and work on a G5. I have 53 GB available.Perhaps you may wish to use Dual Layer DVD-R Media (Verbatim / Maxell) in the event your mac supports this newer media. If not, you can add an ext. FW Burner preconfigured from Lacie or do what I did and build your own:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5826029�
and here's how I select Dual layer via the ext. FW Burner as opposed to the stock S-drive:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5566746�
The only other option that comes to mind for SL as well as DL medias is burning said image with Roxio Toast (fit to disc option).
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I get the message 'your startup disc us full' at random time points. I'm trying to import photos to iPhoto and get'iPhoto cannot import your photos because there is not enough free space on the volume containing your iPhoto library'. This is a new Macbook Pro and all my files were transferred from my old Macbook.
What size internal drive do you have and how much of it is used?
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RESTORE to free up fragmented iPod disc space? There must be a better way!
I've owned iPods since day one and yet I continue to (barely) tolerate an annoying circumstance, as follows: manually deleting songs and videos (mind you, I'm not referring to playlists) will free up some space on [put your iPod iteration here] but NEVER results in freeing up space equal to the size of the songs or videos deleted. As a result, the remaining "fragmented" space builds up over time and creates a serious loss of available "free" space — unless one performs a Restore and starts loading from scratch. Happily, Restore will double — or triple! — the amount of available (re: writable) space on iPods — but serious cost in personal time and trouble
For those of us with high capacity iPods — I can hear you yelling, "Me! Me!" — why, alas, does Restore continue to be the only way for us to manually rebuild the iPod library (thereby resulting in much more writable (rer: available) disk space)?
There must be an easier way? Countless searches of Apple Discussions produces nothing more than endless refrains of "Restore, Restore, Restore!"
Me, I'm tired of manually restoring 25 GBs of songs/videos in order to free up that extra 50 percent of writable space.
How about you?
5G 30GB ipod Mac OS X (10.4.4)Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Me, I'm tired of manually restoring 25 GBs of songs/videos in order to free up that extra 50 percent of writable space.
Buy a larger-capacity iPod, then.
If you really feel like Apple will hear you with your complaints, then do it here. Unless you have something that I can help you with, then please ask.
rjl
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