Set User Disk Space
Hi
I wondered if there was anyway of setting user disk space on my mac? I am the administrator on my ibook and i wondered if i could make a set amount of disk space for all the other users? So i have 60g of HD so i set about 10g for each user for example so they cant use to much and fill the computer up. Hope you understand what i mean, maybe i can do this with some software i can download or if theres anyway let me know thanks.... Any help much appreciated.
you can do that from Mac os server, but i never done this before .. what u can do is to create a folder and then enable something called Disk Quota, the following link have some more details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=ServerAdmin/10.4/en/c6um7.html
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Can anyone tell me why the space available to a user would be different, less than, that on the drive?
My user home folder is showing only 72Gb available, while I've actually still got some 350Gb available on the drive, which I can see in the finder by clicking on the drive. I certainly haven't manually given myself a quota or anything.
I am using encryption, file vault. And I'm using time machine.FileVault only encrypts the Home folder. It does so by creating a sparsebundle type of disc image file. Any space available information you see is related to the sparsebundle. As your Home folder expands in space usage so will the sparsebundle. However, if you remove files from the Home folder the sparsebundle will not shrink.
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It's rather weird this time as I have installed win 7 once with 25G space. but I found it too small and would like to redo it with 30G space. The disk (with only the journaled MAC partition) has 38G left as indicated by the disk utility. The previous installation was removed through boot camp as well.
I don't know what to make of it.
Any idea? Thanks.yes it would, no matter if it is bootcamp or any other partition, it will still take up storage on the startup disk.
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Notify users when their disk space is running low
Hi all,
I'm an administrator of about 100 Apple macs and an OS X server and generally speaking, problems are pretty easy to fix. There is just one major problem I'm always having and its simple to fix, which is that when Users run out of home disk space (only 600MB each) applications start crashing (understandably). The problem is that users don't actively watch their free disk space and when things start going wrong, I'll come along and point out that they need to delete some things and it'll start working again.
What I'm having trouble with (because I'm an absolute beginner) is making an AppleScript (or whatever would be best) to watch for when their home space is getting full (with 20MB free space) it'll pop up and say "don't trouble the technician, delete some files!" (or something along those lines)
So, here's what I have (pretty pathetic)
tell application "Finder"
set freeSpace to (free space of (get startup disk)) div 1024 div 1024
end tell
Is their a way of finding disk space of a Home Drive (which is on a network drive on the server)
What I'd like is to say
tell application "Finder"
set freeSpace to (free space of (get home)) div 1024 div 1024
end tell
It tells me "can't get free space of folder "stephenl"" (my home folder)
Could anyone please help--I'm sure there are several ways to do what you want; here's one that works on an individual computer. If necessary, suitable changes should be possible for server situations, but someone else will have to jump in on that. Copy this to Script Editor, make suitable modifications, then save it as an application; be certain "Startup Screen" isn't checked. Either have the user start it when the computer is started up, or place it in the log-in items (System Peferences) so that happens automatically.
set message_ to "Stephen! Don't trouble the technician, delete some files!" -- modify to suit
set MinAllowFS to 20 -- set this to the available disk space you want to trigger one or more of the responses. MB doesn't have to be specified if everything is in MB (max. possible space, etc.), otherwise some adjustments will have to made to the script. To TEST the script, set the number above what you know the available space could be.
repeat --(However often you want to check free space)
delay 5 --that's 5 seconds; if you think every 10 minutes is often enough to check, make that 600; or make it 0 and the script will repeat essentially in the time it takes to run, which is about 2.5 seconds on my machine
try
set bootDiskInfo to do shell script "diskutil list | grep 'stephen'" -- this gets information for all disks, and then finds the line pertaining to disk 'stephen' (change as necessary)
set bootDiskID to last word of bootDiskInfo -- that last word is the identifier for the disk you're after
set FSinfo to do shell script "diskutil info " & bootDiskID & " | grep 'Free Space'" -- similar to the above command, getting the free space for the boot disk.
set ActFS to word 3 of FSinfo -- word 3 is the numerical value of the free space, irrespective of the multiplier (KB, MB, GB etc.); as stated previously, there will have to changes to the script if the spaces range amongst multipliers.
--Pick one or more of the following responses by removing the comment ("--")
if ActFS < MinAllowFS then beep 3
--if ActFS < MinAllowFS then display dialog message_
--if ActFS < MinAllowFS then say "[[rate 180]]" & message_--[here's a link on using speech: http://www.blankreb.com/studioarticles.php?ID=3
end try
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How can I ensure that I enough memory to take photos on my iPhone. I usually use about 1.5 gb for photos, so I set the reserve disk space to 6 gb, but then after I did an Autofill of music, my Settings said I only have 14.4 mb available (and almost the same number of songs that I had before the Autofill). What happened? My main goal is to leave room on the phone for lots of photos while I am on a backpack trip (I cannot download them to somewhere and then erase them). I do not mind deleting music to make room for new photos.
I find it VERY hard to believe you only have 2.5 mb of interent usage per month. I'm guessing you meant 2.5 gb. Regardless, 2.5 mb or even 10.4 mb is almost nothing. Any "casual" usage could easily meter right past 10.4mb.
If you truly only have 2.5mb of usage, I suggest you ONLY answer the phone. NO text messages, especially with graphics. -
HELPDeleted user account with file vault on to free disk space, to no avail
My saga is a long one. Quick telling: I am the administrator on my eMac, and was locked out of my desktop last spring when the disk became overly full. File vault was turned on, and I was told by my computer repair folks that since the desktop was encrypted, it could not be accessed. A sad situation, since I had not backed up the disk, and had years of family photos that were lost, not to mention iTunes, Quicken, and more.
Since then I bought a back-up disk, and saved a copy of that desktop, just in case.
My computer is overly full again, and today I decided to delete my old user account in order to free space. Of the 160G in this computer, 80% was associated with that user (that is, me). I deleted account via the System Preferences window and its Accounts window.
I emptied the trash, and 'got info' on my hard drive, only to see that nothing had disappeared, memory-wise! I am still nearly full--only having 2G available, rather than the 130 or more that I had hoped to free up.m I restarted too.
I went to Apple Support to find that one should turn off File Vault before deleting a user account. Unfortunately, this is impossible for me, since I can not/could not access the user account to turn it off.
SO here is my question: is there a way to delete the files of a user account that had file vault turned on, but that is inaccessible? There is no deleted user file in my User folder, by the way.
I am not suer what to do. Any help is appreciated.Thanks for your insights.
The Tech Tool report happened after AppleJack, and never showed up before that. Restarting again just now, it showed up again.
I had not emptied the trash, but did now, and the 'get info' on my hard drive still shows that I have used nearly all of my 160 GB.
Re Disk Warrior: I do have it and just ran it. I emptied trash again and checked to see available disk space: I have 2.47 GB, so the problem still exists.
Here is the disk warrior report for the first part of its tests:
DiskWarrior has successfully built a new optimized directory for the disk named "Hildegarde." The new directory is
ready to replace the original directory.
There is not enough contiguous free space for a fail-safe replacement of the directory. It is highly recommended that
you create 204 MB of contiguous free space before replacing the original directory.
All file and folder data was easily located.
Comparison of the original and replacement directories indicates that there will be changes to the number, the
contents and/or the attributes of the files and folders. It is recommended that you preview the replacement
directory and examine the items listed below. All files and folders were compared and a total of 14,627,488
comparison tests were performed.
• Errors, if any, in the directory structure such as tree depth, header node, map nodes, node size, node counts, node
links, indexes and more have been repaired.
• 1 folder had a directory entry with an incorrect custom icon flag that was repaired.
Disk Information:
Files: 552,652
Folders: 131,014
Free Space: 2.47 GB
Format: Mac OS Extended
Block Size: 4 K
Disk Sectors: 321,410,736
Media: HDT722516DLAT80
Time: 11/28/08 6:54:19 PM
DiskWarrior Version: 4.1 -
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 -
I've been checking my email via webmail for a week and am back in the office today. Fired up Thunderbird, expecting it to pick up all my email, but it gets nothing and tells me…
Sending of password for user [email protected] did not succeed. Mail server pop.ipower.com responded: Not enough disk space
Haven't seen this particular error message come up in searches via google and at mozilla. There's definitely disk space on my machine. I'm running TB on a Mac (OSX 10.6.8). Disk Space options under Preferences > Advanced let me assign up to 1024 mb for the cache, which I've done, and cleared.
Has anyone encountered this before? Got a solve/troubleshooting process? Thanks!Thanks. I do compact regularly (TB prompts me to) and did it (several times) via Preferences today to try and get TB past this error message.
Also went thru and Trashed + Empty Trashed as many messages as possible from the inbox, just in case. Still no-go. -
This occurred a few months ago when I changed the Disk Space setting to "To save disk space do not download messages larger than 1000KB".
Since then Thunderbird has truncated every message I've received no matter what the size.
Not your fault, but made much more annoying because my server, Telstra (Australia) does not let me read more than two or three messages at a time without a delay, whereas if messages under 1000KB appear in my inbox automatically I do not have this problem.
Would really appreciate a solution, as when I've been away from my emails I can have a number accumulate and it wastes valuable work time waiting to download them.
thanks, Wendyhi Matt, or someone else
Only rarely do I get an email larger than 1000kb. But not matter how small the email, even if only a few kb, Thunderbird truncates every single one, and after I have "untruncated" a few emails, the server refuses to let me untruncate any more for a few minutes. I have used the Thunderbird Disk Save tool for years previously with no problems, and I think this happened when I changed it from 500 to 1000kb a few weeks ago (may have been due to a Mozilla update). I truncate large files because I pay $45/month for 4GB of usage, with absolutely no option to Telstra because I live in the bush in Queensland and Telstra wireless is our only choice for broadband. I use Windows Security Essentials and don't know how to turn off email scanning in it if indeed it does scan my emails (have always assumed it does, but can't find a way to see if it is). In any case I wouldn't want to have this feature off permanently. This problem with truncating all emails has occurred after I started to use Windows Security Essentials. Any more targetted thoughts please to what I've explained above. -
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Thank you.You have at least 3 different ways to show the project library:
1) Go to WIndow->Show Project Library
2) Click the button in bottom left of your window:
3) Hit the keyboard shortcut (Command-0)
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LR 5.5 upgrade. I only get the the 32 bit set up and an error when the 64 bit set up should be created. It says not enough disk space and no access to write. The disk space is okay and the 32 bit file was indeed created. I have Windows 7 Home edition.
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I shared disk space and my iPhoto library as described in this article. When creating the disk image, I thought I had set aside enough space to allow for growth (50G). I'm running out of space. What's the best way to increase the disk image size?
Done. Thank you, Allan.
The sparse image article you sent a link to needs a little updating (or there's some variability in prompts (no password was required) with my OS and/or Disk Utility version), but it worked.
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Checking free disk space after setting up Boot Camp?
Hi team,
I've just gone thru the install process for putting Windows 8 on my MB Air. Can anyone point me to info on keeping an eye on free disk space?
I have a 128Mb SSD drive, and prior to installing Win 8 I cleared a lot of media files off the SSD (which took ages to secure delete), but when I used the 'Get Info' option to see how much space had been freed up, the free space did not appear to increase by the amount I had deleted (we're talking about 22Gb of material deleted!).
Anyway I created a Windows partition of 30Gb. When I boot into Win8 it reports only a few Gb free of the 30Gb partition... When I boot into MacOS it reports 36Gb free of the 90Gb partition.
Any help or links greatfully received!
Cheers,
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If the 3TB Fusion model you can't install windows even with Boot Camp unless you jump through some Hoops and first brake apart the Fusion drive.
If 1TB Fusion or standard drive then you will need a Windows PC to make USB thumb drive containing the Win 7 install files. you do that with a tool MS has, Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool, or Yumi Multiboot or ISO to USB. And you first may have to make an ISO from the DVD or go to My Digital Life and download the ISO file of the version of Win 7 you buy and have a License key for, Home Premium, Pro or Ultimate.
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When I try to run WinDirStat with elevated permissions, it hangs and becomes unresponsive.
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I'm pulling my hair out...and I don't have much to start with. Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
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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.
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