Running out of disk space for no apparent reason

My system drive is almost full but I can't find the files that are causing the problem. When I add up the numbers they only come up to 55GB and I have 120GB drive with only 6GB available.

How much available space do you see when you right click on your hard disk (usually Macintosh HD) and use Get Info?
How does that compare to the free space at  > About This Mac > More Info… > Storage?
If there is a large difference it could be Time Machine snapshots that can use up to 80% of your disk. This is not a problem, it is a feature. To gain the disk space back, plug in your Time Machine disk and run a backup.
See The Storage Display: http://pondini.org/OSX/LionStorage.html .
Also see:
Where did my disk space go: http://pondini.org/OSX/DiskSpace.html
and Time Machine FAQ, What are Local Snapshots: http://pondini.org/TM/30.html .
If it is not Time Machine snapshots or you otherwise want more disk space then see which files you can clean up, remove or offload.
See https://discussions.apple.com/message/24012341#24012341 .

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How to set the limit for the warning 'running out of disk space'

I am wondering if there's a way to set the number of GB before I get the system warning 'running out of disk space'.
I saw this question asked in 2010 and it did not get an answer. It was archived so I am asking again. I know how to monitor the available space on my startup disk, and how to empty the trash to clear up disk space. I am looking for an OS X setting that I can change.

My guess is that you want to lower the limit. IMHO I think the limit is alreay too low.
If you are seeing this warning regularly then your disk is severely overfull and needs to be replaced with a larger one.
Running the free space low eenough to get the warning greatly increases the chances for disk corruption. Once the disk gets corrupted then then next thing that happens is data lose.
You have a serious problem with your Mac that should be dealt with immediately.
Backing your data up would also be a good idea if you are not already doing that.
Allan

How do I recover iMovie files corrupted by running out of disk space?

I've been using iMovie HD 6.0.3 to create recordings using a webcam from time to time. Usually I just leave the camera on during presentations. On two different occasions I ran out of hard disk space, and have been unable to playback the videos I've recorded. One is very important and I'd like to save it if at all possible. The video data is definitely on the hard drive (I have a 9 gig file), however, attempts to play it using Quicktime Pro or iMovie fail. iMovie acts as if the movie contains no data even though over 2 hours were recorded. (Quicktime Pro responds with a Mac OS Error -1409)
Apparently if iMovie runs out of disk space during a recording, it is unable to save or later recover the file properly. While it seems to store the video data, perhaps the file is missing some sort of critical markers or pointers.
Does anyone know of a way to recover the video from this file? Perhaps there is a tool to somehow pull the video stream out of the corrupted file that was saved by iMovie?
Please let me know if you have any ideas! It is very important that I recover these files. Thanks!

Hi QuakingBog - What happened when you discovered this situation?
1. There was an error displayed on the screen saying it was almost out of disk space.
Did iMovie remain open, with the file showing in the Clips Pane or Timeline?
2. The clip I was recording went from showing the image which was on the camera and elapsed time (which had been over 2 hours just before then) to showing just black and showing a total record time of 0:00 as soon as it ran out of disk space. Even though lots of data was recorded, it went back to looking as if nothing was recorded.
I would be surprised if iMovie 'saved' it of its own accord (it has no auto-save feature). Did you hit Save? If there is a 9 GB file, then obviously somehow something was saved.
3. Yes, I hit save. I also hit "Save As" after this and saved it to an external hard disk with more free space as well. I can't get anything to play from either place.
Have you checked within the project 'package' to see if there are any files actually saved? To check, Control-Click on the project (with the star on it), and select Show Package Contents. Anything in the Media folder? Look for a .mov file in one of the folders - does it play?
4. Yes, there are files in there. There is a Clip 01.mov that is 9.29 gb, but it won't open or play.
In cache there are...
Timeline Movie.mov 8KB
Thumbnails.plist 4K
Timeline Movie Data.plist 4K
In media there is also...
My Great Movie~ 4K
My Great Movie 4K
Any further suggestions would be very appreciated based upon this additional information. Thanks for helping!

DPM is out of disk space for the replica

Trying to make a bare metal backup of a phyiscal server running 2008 R2 SP1 . I've checked im not out of space. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the agent, I've manually tried to make the disk allocation larger same error.
DPM is out of disk space for the replica. (ID 58 Details: Internal error code: 0x809909FF)
This is in the event log on the Client machine
The backup operation attempted has failed to start, error code '2155348040' (There is not enough free space on the backup storage location to back up the data.). Please review the event details for a solution, and then rerun the backup operation once
the issue is resolved.
I have several other machines doing bare metal backups they are virtual but I can't see why that would be any different. They have no problems doing this. I have seen hacks on the internet editing xml files to get this to work changing allcritical to "C:".
I'd like an actual fix for this please?

Mike quick question. How can I determine which share my particular server is using to backup to? Here is what I get when I try to do a DIR on the folder as system
C:\Windows\system32>whoami
nt authority\system
C:\Windows\system32>dir
\\kdnap-util1\0ae3c77eaab54ea09b0724737a125f48
Access is denied.
C:\Windows\system32>dir
\\kdnap-util1\12068c1992634c92addf44bfbee5cada
Access is denied.
I was just trying to poke around to browse the folder to see which one to back it up to . But with the access denied error this isn't helpful :)
Here is my list of shares
C:\Windows\system32>net view \\kdnap-util1
Shared resources at \\kdnap-util1
I also tried doing a DIR from a server that is backing up correctly on any of those shares listed above after running psexec and I get access denied from them as well so I guess thats normal
Share
name                        Type Used as Comment
0ae3c77eaab54ea09b0724737a125f48 Disk           0ae3c77eaab54ea09b0724737a125f4
8
12068c1992634c92addf44bfbee5cada Disk           12068c1992634c92addf44bfbee5cad
a
32d87ea3f0ea4570bd1ae215c818686d Disk           32d87ea3f0ea4570bd1ae215c818686
d
3429bef9926347babbf20bbb258fdec0 Disk           3429bef9926347babbf20bbb258fdec
0
5c9c98bbc69c4f0ab75df48e89f52fc3 Disk           5c9c98bbc69c4f0ab75df48e89f52fc
3
600460aa29bb4f198d0d0fb6b1636068 Disk           600460aa29bb4f198d0d0fb6b163606
8
62abc840b38444abaa9d8dc9bd43b852 Disk           62abc840b38444abaa9d8dc9bd43b85
2
6833cf7dec3e4f19a3bf7961d53c5ced Disk           6833cf7dec3e4f19a3bf7961d53c5ce
d
68437b942573463b9437a15056bccf7c Disk           68437b942573463b9437a15056bccf7
c
805320dcb886401fa3dc6a8213b3deec Disk           805320dcb886401fa3dc6a8213b3dee
c
8404f7468dea47ce9e92a99536ebe13d Disk           8404f7468dea47ce9e92a99536ebe13
d
8bcbc4deae44458da77fbe59661f60fb Disk           8bcbc4deae44458da77fbe59661f60f
b
9bc5182a9d6b43478b7c09062ee1c9b0 Disk           9bc5182a9d6b43478b7c09062ee1c9b
0
b588fc67397e4a5a81a15bb5b52dbe31 Disk           b588fc67397e4a5a81a15bb5b52dbe3
1
Backups                           Disk
bf941a02f6e847a095b03d01963b8df1 Disk           bf941a02f6e847a095b03d01963b8df
1
bfc06209ce514b939098a9fd701e05d7 Disk           bfc06209ce514b939098a9fd701e05d
7
BLAZELG                           Disk
d35de342510248a0a34dac84ecd55d08 Disk           d35de342510248a0a34dac84ecd55d0
8
df1658496f364923b25f615625254195 Disk           df1658496f364923b25f61562525419
5
dfc6d6061f314fabbed0fb144c18df7c Disk           dfc6d6061f314fabbed0fb144c18df7
c
e8fcdd5155c940bb8ecddd0e7a99be7b Disk           e8fcdd5155c940bb8ecddd0e7a99be7
b
ee23ec6bc709410a9cfce4759c935f8f Disk           ee23ec6bc709410a9cfce4759c935f8
f
f0f1272aeab7417d82a6473b3f8b3a91 Disk           f0f1272aeab7417d82a6473b3f8b3a9
1
library.old                       Disk
The command completed successfully.
OK figured out which share it is by viewing the sharename in the shared folders snap-in (mmc) it listed my server name which access on the share. its "600460aa29bb4f198d0d0fb6b1636068"

Running out of disk space - IGS Log Trace

Hello,
for a few weeks we are continuously running out of disk space on our CE7.2 Application Server.
The following files are increasing every second:
Path: usr\sap\C72\J00\igs\log
mux_sapce72.trc
pw_sapce72_0.trc
pw_sapce72_1.trc
The entry that is written into these files per second is always similar to this one:
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[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] Before NiSelSelect
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] After NiSelSelect, ret=-5
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] timeout --> continue
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] Before NiSelSelect
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] After NiSelSelect, ret=-5
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] timeout --> continue
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] Before NiSelSelect
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] After NiSelSelect, ret=-5
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] timeout --> continue
[ServerTcpIp::NiServerloop] Before NiSelSelect
Does anybody know what's the reason for this is and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance!
Michael

Hi...Michael....
What is your IGS 720 SP Level ?
What is IGS trace level ? if it is "1" .....set to "0".
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Running out of disk space - External Drive Advice

Hi,
I've been importing all of our HDV video in "Large" fomat (Not the original or full size). We have an Apple TV so wanted to get the qaulity up for our large TV.
Anyway, we have lots of digital pics, huge iTunes library and now I'm starting to run out of disk space with all of my iMovie imports.
I would like to buy a huge external drive to help offload:
Is there any reason I should be concerned about storing my video on external drive? Any editing performance issues?
I use time machine, if I buy a huge external, can I split it in half and use part for time machine and part for imovie?
Just curious.
Thx,
Brent

I agree that you can make this work. Your external drive must be formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled). You can do this as you are creating your 2 partitions in Disk Utility, if it has a different formatting when you buy it.
If you want to move your Events from your internal drive to your new external drive, you need to do it from within iMovie so you do not break the links to your projects. To do this, open iMovie and click VIEW/EVENTS BY VOLUME. You should be able to see a small icon in your Event Library List for your external drive. You can Command-Drag your event icons in the event library list to this icon for your external, and all the links to your projects will be preserved. (hold down the command key while dragging). If you do a simple drag and drop, it will copy not move.

Running out of disk space on root partition

Hello,
I'm running gnome 3 and every time I boot and logon with my user I'm getting a warning that my root partition is running out of disk space (~350MB free out of 7.5GB). This seems really strange to me since I've not installed very much software. I've got a 1TB hard drive and the big things are stored in my home directory.
# df -h
outputs:
Filesystem size used free used% mounted
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
run 10M 168K 9,9M 2% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 7,3G 6,6G 357M 95% /
shm 2,0G 444K 2,0G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 99M 17M 78M 18% /boot
/dev/sda4 910G 131G 733G 16% /home
/dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 seems a little bit odd to me there although I don't have much experience using linux based systems.
# ls /dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 -l
# lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 (...date and time ...) /dev/disk/by-uuid/072ba75b-a418-4795-ac0b-965815573010 -> ../../sda3
and tab completion lists the files of my home directory. What's going on here?

Inxsible wrote:
ChoK wrote:/usr should not be on a seperate partition anymore. Some programs assume it's on the same partition and fail sometime silently sometime badly.
What ?? That's the first I have heard of this. What programs fail? Any examples?
With sysvinit in Arch, this isn't such a big problem, but we're slowly starting to see evidence that this is becoming a worse and worse idea. In particular, if you set a non C locale for daemons, you will not be able to shut down cleanly, as mount(8) is trying to reference files in the locale cache (on /usr) and can't unmount /usr.
Example bug report: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25149
If you're using systemd, /usr on a separate partition is flat out not allowed. We're getting into the realm of filthy hacks ahead in order to try and support this -- see Tom's late comments in the above bug report.
Oh, and be on the lookout for a cache cleaning util in pacman-contrib (name pending):
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 13926.html
Last edited by falconindy (2011-07-27 20:48:14)

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You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (C:)

I am getting this error message "You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (C To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary file" but I have 600 GB free out of 671GB on my C drive.
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rdtetrick wrote:
I am getting this error message "You are running out of disk space on Local Disk (C To free space on this drive by deleting old or unnecessary file" but I have 600 GB free out of 671GB on my C drive.
That means that the disk is almost full. Unless you free up some space soon, your operating system will begin to behave strangely and eventually will no longer boot into Windows.
Windows operating system uses part of the capacity of the hard disk for virtual memory. A good rule of thumb is to never come to within 15-20% of the hard disk's capacity.
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I am running out of disk space. I think most of the memory is taken up by iTunes with music and TV shows. How do I free up some memory?

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If you are either new to the Mac OS, or like me, are a non-techie, just a small thing to understand. Memory in all ways, denotes RAM, while storage space is your SSD/iHD.
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I have FMS server setup for HTTP live streaming. It is fed from Adobe Live Encoder via webcam. Everything is running well, except I am retaining all the Segment's .f4f / .f4x files since it began encoding, and after a few days this causes our sever to run out of disk space. Where do I configure FMS server to only hold onto the last few segments?
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I have 7.3 Gb free disk space but sometimes the iphone shows error message
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I swear I searched for a solution before posting.
I'm trying to install a Zen Kernel from AUR using yaourt but the process is failing because I'm running out of disk space.
I guess it's using /tmp to build.
How can I use some directory in my /home folder that has more space available?
Best regards
Last edited by nischg (2011-01-12 16:39:31)

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Last edited by sekereg3 (2011-01-12 12:40:56)

Running out of disk space in c drive

Hi,
i'm new to OBIEE, i installed obiee 10.1.3.4 on my computer , i'm doing practice on sample sales. every day i could see message running out of disk space, daily i'm purging cache entries and deleting sessions in UI, and also deleting temp files in oracle BI data, but still i'm facing this problem.
could anyone give me more ideas.
Your valuable suggestions are appreciated.

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