Recover Massive Amounts of Disk Space

This isn't a question, but a tip: You should delete the contents of the "Soundtrack Pro Documents/Temporary Files" folder after your projects are finished. I'm surprised at how much space the temp files consume. Every week I do this and recover 8-12 gigs of space back!

Wow! Sweetness! Thanks.

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How to limit the amount of disk space Time Machine will use?

On Yosemite, how do you limit the amount of disk space Time Machine will use?
I'm using a Seagate Goflex Home 2tb drive connected to my router as a Time Machine backup drive. I use this for three things 1)Time Machine 2) an occasional backup of windows document subdirectory 3) backup of music and photos for long term storage. Doing something like re-partioning the drive is not an option. I'll just go buy another drive for time machine's sole use. In addition, using software from Seagate is not an option. I don't want to use their software for different reasons (mainly the GoFlex home is really designed as a "media server" which I don't use. I, of course, use iTunes. ) On the Mac, I'm only using about 250GB total but time machine is rapidly using up space.
Apparently using a terminal command like below, used to work, but no longer works under Yosemite.
For a limit of 100gb the number below would be 100 x 1024
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize 102400
To remove the limit, use the following command:
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize
Now, I'm not too familiar with terminal and I'm not about ready to issue a command without knowing exactly what it is going to do.
Is there an easier "switch" someplace or an app that does this?
If I don't limit the size, at some point there will not be any space left for windows backups and additional photo and music files.

Hmm- added "sudo" and there was no error reported:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine MaxSize xxxxxx
I guess we'll see.

Default partitions taking up large amount of disk space

While investigating in Disk Management after having my Yoga 11s laptop for a few months, I noticed a bunch of partitions that are taking up a large portion of space on my computer. Which brought up a bunch of questions (related to the screenshot below):
What are the EFI System Partition and OEM Partitions?
Does the recovery partition work with that OneKey Recovery?
What does OneKey actually supposed to back up? Both the core OS files and all of the personal files/data?
Why are there two recovery partitions listed?
If the other 4 partitions are needed/used why are they all 100% free space.
Should I be storing personal files on the D: primary partition or C: partition?
The allocation of file space doesn't seem to line up with Lenovo's description here (which also mentions only 3 partitions, not 6): http://download.lenovo.com/express/HT062547.html
I just purchased a 2TB external drive and planned to partition it into two 1TB partitions and use one for backup and one for storage. In this case, do I need such a large recovery parition, or any at all on my computer?
I had planned on using the Windows 8.1 native File History for backups on the external. OneKey seems to be more of a manual backup process, but I'm trying to figure out the best why to backup both my own personal files and the system files themselves. What's the best why to set that up?
See screenshot:
Thank you for the help!
Kevin

Thanks, I also found this article after some digging that explains the default partitions: http://www.lionhack.com/2013/12/25/lenovo-yoga-2-pro-partitions/
What's the reasoning behind Lenovo creating the separate C and D drives?

How do I minimize the amount of disk space project files take up on my internal HD?

Does anyone know the best way to keep as much of the video footage I import on an external drive instead of my internal hard drive/ FCP "events" folder? My external HD has a lot of space (Western Digi Firewire 1.5TB), but my laptop has a tiny HD (100GB). I noticed that while editing a short video that is about 12 minutes, my FCP "movies" folder has swollen up to about 15 GB worth of space.
Are there settings available to prevent this?
Is this because the "create optimized media" and "create proxy media" preference are checked?
I noticed in a tutorial video (lynda) that the narrator was able to import video files (.m4v) from a separate scratch disk and "Save to" a separate drive. When I choose this option, it only allows me to save to my internal hard drive.
If this question is answered in another post, please indicate link.
Thanks!

Fairly obviously, I'm not a fan of the new arrangement.
It eats up space on small screens, can't be relocated to a second screen to keep the main screen just for the document and the supposed contextualism fails to materialise when you need it most.
You can hide the Format sidebar in the View menu, but there is no keyboard shortcut as there was for the Inspectors in Pages '09.
I remain as mystified as ever by the fans of the new arrangement.
Peter

SSD not displaying the accurate amount of disk space available (Macbook Air 2011)

Weird issue and dont know if this is a bad SSD or just a bug in Lion BUT I have an i7 18 ghz 2011 macbook air with 256GB SSD. Now the issue is if i click on "Macintosh HD" and press command +I i get a one number, later i go into disk utility and it says a whole different number (space available). I deal with large files for video and im always deleting some and adding others. I reformatted twice and had everything re-installed, but after a few days of usage the symptoms come back. Anyone experiencing this issues? can it be a hardware issue or a bug in Lion? I called support, but they told me is out of my 90 days and i live way too far from an apple store.
see the picture below.
Disk Utility says 69GB free, while the Finder says 199GB free? that is a HUGE difference.

Rysz wrote:
If you have Time Mashine turned on, and no external drive attached, TM will keep "snapshot" backups on your local drive.
Actually, it will make "Local Snapshots" whenever Time Machine is ON, not just when the normal backup destination isn't available. See #30 in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions for details.

Client Cache requires ridiculous amount of disk space

I'm testing SCCM 2012 R2 with a Windows 7 client. I'm on my second application install and both apps gave me error that the cache was not large enough. The first time I increased it to 9GB and for the second app I increased it to 15GB. Both times I did it
manually from the client machine.
If these apps are only 5MB in size why is the cache having to take up so much room? Also, is there a way to have the install automatically delete the cache if the install will be too big?

I've never had this type of issue, in all the years we've used ConfigMgr.
Assuming your installation of ConfigMgr is healthy, the first thing I'd look into, is if you may have inadvertently created the package for your 5Mb application by specifying the wrong source folder.
What I mean by that, is that sometimes, it's easy to inadvertently point the package source location at the wrong folder for source, if you point the source folder at, say, the root of a large software library (instead of the specific application folder), your
end up creating a package that is massive in size because it has all source for all applications in a single package.
(I've seen it done. It's not funny at the time, but afterwards, it gets a grin and office-myth status ;)
So, on a client, examine the ccmcache folders and content. if there's only supposed to be a single application install source in there, verify that.
Don
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HT204655 Photos library eats up huge amount of disk space

After upgrading to 10.10.3, I imported my photos into Photos app. All my photos are stored on a partition (HFS+ filesystem was applied) other than where OS X is installed, the size in total of this folder is about 36 giga. I checked off the option for copying the items into Photos library before importing, however, by finishing the import, the Photos library showed a size of 33 giga, the resources/modelresource folder contributed the highest proportion. I checked into that folder, found all files imported successfully were copied here. What should I do to solve the problem? Thanks!

Just to add a couple of suggestions:
If you already have the media from your camera saved to your computer, you can check Leave Files in Place in the Import dialog. FCPX will create pointers to your media and won't copy them to your event.
Depending on the format of your clips and the complexity of your project, you may not need to create Optimized and/or Proxy media.
And as digibudll said, deleting renders when your project is finished and delivered will often save a lot of space. That can be done from within the application.
Russ

Clean install with least amount of disk space?

Hi,
I just ordered a MBP 15", with a 128gb SSD.
When it arrives, I'd like to do a re-install and select only the options/languages that are necessary for me.
Is there a tutorial, or can you help me with some tips on making the footprint as small as possible? I need to save some room for Boot Camp.
I heard that you can cut out the printer drivers, and install the needed driver from the manufacturer website.
Any help is appreciated, this is my first Mac so it's all a bit new to me.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Unless you plan to use Garageband or iDVD, both have large addon libraries, the first for the loops, the seconds for the custom DVD menu background and layout. If either is not of interest to you, back them up in a later use folder on an external hard drive, but you don't have to load them all the time.

Datapump import consuming disk space

Hi all,
Windows server 2003
Oracle 10g
I'm trying to import a schema using datapump:
impdp username/password schemas=siebel directory=dpdir dumpfile=schema_exp.dmp status=60
It's importing but it's consuming massive amounts of disk space, over 40 gig now. Why is it consuming so much space just to import. I'm doing a reorg\, so I dropped the biggest production schema, and did the import. I didn't resize the datafiles, so where is all this extra disk space going?
Please help, this is a production site and I'm running out of time (and space)

Tablespace SEGS FRAGS SIZE FREE USED
PERFSTAT : 0 1 1000 1000 0%
SBL_DATA : 3448 4 30400 12052 60%
SBL_INDEX : 7680 3 8192 4986 39%
SYSAUX : 3137 39 2560 490 81%
SYSTEM : 1256 1 2048 1388 32%
TEMP : 0 0%
TOOLS : 2 1 256 256 0%
UNDOTBS1 : 11 13 5120 4754 7%
USERS : 169 14 1024 424 59%
Great thanks, the tablespaces are not the problem, it is the archivelogs. About a 100m a minute!
My issue started with the first import, not all the data was imported, meaning there where rows missing, I saw this when I did a row count. So I decided to do the import again (followed the same steps as mentioned earlier) If after this import the rows are still missing, I want to do a point in time recovery with rman, because then my export dump file must be corrupted, am I correct in saying this?

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.

Disappearing disk space Windows Server 2012 R2 with SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise

I've got an interesting problem with a virtual machine in our VMWare environment. It is Windows Server 2012 R2 with SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise installed. I started out with a 60GB disk and it started running out of space, so I increased
it in VMWare and extended the partition to 100GB. Well, that lasted for a bit and so I extended it again. I've done this 3 or 4 times and now I've got a 160GB disk with about 2-3GB of space remaining (and it started with 10GB remaining).
WinDirStat shows 105GB of <Unknown> space being used, which is probably my issue. However, I can't determine what this is and it keeps growing like a tapeworm. The context menu on the <Unknown> files has all the options disabled,
so WinDirStat doesn't appear to have access to whatever the file(s) is/are. I've performed several chkdsk /f on the C: drive and nothing bad is reported. I don't have any restore points and am not running VSS (that I'm aware of). The pagefile
reports as being about 4.9GB, so that's not the issue. No large files are shown anywhere and my explorer settings are set to show me all files, including system files.
When I try to run WinDirStat with elevated permissions, it hangs and becomes unresponsive.
I've even resorted to running CCleaner to see if it found anything, but it simply found the standard temp files and such...about 1GB.
I'm pulling my hair out...and I don't have much to start with. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Russ

It appears that somehow, Microsoft Fusion Assembly binding logging was turned on and many of the temp folders located at c:\users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\InetCache\IE were filling up with hundreds of thousands of Fusion HTM log files.
This is controlled by an entry in the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fusion\ForceLog which was set to 1. Hopefully, setting it back to zero will fix the issue. As a result of figuring this out, I have recovered almost 80GB of disk
space occupied by the log files.
I thought WinDirStat would show me what I needed to know, but it turns out TreeSize (which I've used in the past) works much better.
Russ

How to find out the unused disk space?

Hi,
I want to know if there is any way possible by which I can find out the amount of disk space that is available. I have to write an application that checks for the disk space under Windows and Unix platforms. If anything is possible please let me know as soon as possible.

I know that there is no Java API for it. I tried using the Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c dir") method to find out the available disk space. But it returns the value through the InputStream which would have to be parsed to get the unused disk space value. If there is a way to write a shell script (for Unix / Linux) and a batch file (for Windows), please do let me know of the same. Also please let me know how to execute the script / batch. Awaiting your reply.

Wrong amount of free space

I searched the forum, and it seems that other people have a problem with the OS seemingly reporting too little free space on the disk, which is the opposite of the problem I have.
I'm being shown that I have MUCH more free space than I do. I have a (Early 2013) MacBook Pro 15" with Retina display and a 500 GB SSD. Using "Get Info," the hard drive reports that I have a capacity of 499.42 GB with 459.04 GB free and only ~40 GB used. The "Item Info" below the disk name reports the same thing. This is impossible, considering the amount of data that I have stored, including a 60 GB Windows 7 partition. Disk Utility reports the correct amount of disk space available as does About This Mac.
Any idea what's causing the discrepancy? Since Disk Utility is reading the drive correctly and reports no problems when I use "Verify Disk," I'm guessing it's not a big deal, but I'd like to know if there's a fix.
Thanks.

Try re-indexing Spotlight:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2409

What does error message when trying to burn DVD from iDVD mean "not enough disk space to burn the remaining assets"

I created a DVD in idvd and now when trying to burn to DVD using external burner, I get the error message
"not enough disk space to encode the remaining assets". I am using a brand new blank DVD.
I have read the help info on computer but hasnt proved helpful.
Any suggestions?

iDVD requires a fair amount of disk space to carry out the encoding process; depending on your project, you may need to have over 25 GB free space on your startup hard drive. How much free space do you have?

Losing disk space after upgrade of Mavericks

The download and installation was successful. However, after restarting and before upgrading all free iWork apps including iTunes and iPhoto. I noticed that after recovering about 10gb of disk space, it started reducing it again. I continued with the upgrade of the said apps, but after leaving my mbp for a few hours it started losing disk space again. this time its agresssive, i've lost around 40gb overnight, without using any apps or activating any updates. Please help!

It sounds like Time Machine is turned ON and the computer is making backups to the hard disk. This space is freed automatically, if required by the OS.

Recover Massive Amounts of Disk Space

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