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)

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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.

Filevault won't recover disk space

I have filevault on on my macbook pro. When I shutdown, it usually recovers the disk space that is replaced from the files I deleted (when I emptied the trash), as it should. However, this is the second time that I've had this problem where, when I shutdown or restart or logoff, filevault won't recover my disk space. And I need that space...now! What do I do? Why won't it show the "recovering disk space" thing when I shut down?! In the past, I just waited a while, and eventually, it worked one day.

I have filevault on on my macbook pro. When I shutdown, it usually recovers the disk space that is replaced from the files I deleted (when I emptied the trash), as it should. However, this is the second time that I've had this problem where, when I shutdown or restart or logoff, filevault won't recover my disk space. And I need that space...now! What do I do? Why won't it show the "recovering disk space" thing when I shut down?! In the past, I just waited a while, and eventually, it worked one day.

When doing catalog backup get message " your system is low on disk space, and elements organizer can

When doing catalog backup get message " your system is low on disk space, and elements organizer cannot perform the operation. If create a catalog with 20 pictures backup works OK. backing up to a 1TB external drive. Have 16705 pictures in catalog. Total disk space for pictures is 192 MB. Why am I getting message?

kdrozzen a écrit:
Total disk space for pictures is 192 MB.
Do you really mean MB (megabytes) or GB (gigabytes) ?
Even if its GB, the free space may be enough, depending on your files size, especially with videos or raw files.
When you start the backup process, it first shows you the total size of the catalog.

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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
- ....

"Not Enough Free Disk Space" error message, but Finder shows plenty of disk space available

Apologies if this is a double post, but I have been searching all over and can't seem to find this issue in the forums.
I have a 256GB Macbook with a fresh copy of Lion installed, am going through the process of migrating files back over, after which I have approximately 125GB free. However, whenever I go online and try to download any type of file (PDF, sofware install files, etc.), an error message displays saying:
Safari could not download the file “blahblahblah.dmg” because there is not enough free disk space.
Not sure how this is possible since the .dmg file is 18MB and Finder is saying there is over 125GB free. I've tried repairing disk permissions, booting off the Lion recovery disk and repairing the startup disk, all to no avail. Anyone had this issue before?

Don Archibald wrote:
Check in Safari's Preferences (in the Safari menu) to see what has been designated as the destination for downloads. If that has somehow been set to a disk image or a CD/DVD location, you'll get that 'not enough space' message.
The same may occur if the download target location is set to a non-available drive. This can happen when aliases are used and things have been copied (migrated) from another drive.
Thanks for the suggestion. That wasn't the problem, but your suggestion did shed light on something else. I was able to perform a right-click action and Save File As... to my Documents folder. On further analysis, it appears that the "Macintosh HD", Downloads folder, and Desktop are showing the "pencil with a line through it" icon in the bottom left of the Finder window, which would suggest those areas are read-only for some reason.
My user account is the only one on the machine and it's an admin account. Any guesses as to why that might have set itself that way, or any suggestions on how to change it? I've already tried repairing permissions on the startup disk in Disk Utility.

Q: How to properly shutdown part/all of VDI? and question about disk space

Hi again. I was able to get the VDI to work, but yesterday I changed the ARC parameter both in the storage and the xvm server (not sure in which is needed to be changed) and restarted both machines, to my surprise, the templates and the cloned VM had disappeared, so I was wondering if there is a proper way to shut down parts or the whole VDI? is there a sequence? and, of course, how to then turn everything back online ...
How to make things permanent or at least, to export them so one can then import them back after the reboot?
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Edited by: Velithion on Jul 8, 2009 8:05 AM

"kmdguy" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hello there,
>
> I'm working on a simple FLEX app which uses the built-in
PHP wizard to
> connect
> to a mySQL database. I'm building the app using MAMP and
so far all of my
> testing is working fine. I have it performing all kinds
of CRUD
> successfully,
> etc.
>
> My question is how to properly go about moving all the
necessary files to
> my
> off-site web host. Namely my mySQL database.
If your database is the same version of mySQL on the MAMP as
on the server,
then you should be able to just export it from one and import
it to the
other. If not, you could try doing something similar to what
I describe
here:
http://flexdiary.blogspot.com/2009/01/lazy-loading-tree-example-file-posted.html
in the steps that start: "Download the rtf translation of the
mySQL database
table..." and "Open the classification.rtf you downloaded
and..."
> And will the auto-generated PHP
> break now that it's not running on my localhost.
I'm not sure, but I think you might wind up having to make
some adjustments
to it. For instance, is the user name and password identical
on your server
and your MAMP installation? If not, you'll have to edit some
of the
connection data.
> I've tried to find a simple
> step-by-step guide to migrating everything here to an
off-site host but
> couldn't find anything specific. Only how to create a
simple release build
> which works fine. I'd like to do some testing before I
get any deeper to
> confirm that I understand how to migrate all the files I
need to my web
> host.
This may well be because the type of person who writes these
guides is
unlikely to be using the automatically generated scripts.
HTH;
Amy

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How do i get rid of low disk space message ( you are running out of disk space on Hp_Tools (E popup HP tools drive E on pavilion g7-1219wm notebook pc. It is very annoying. I am i school and I have noticed it since downloading different assignments from my college black boards.

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Hi,
Please try:
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Save your changes.
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Reboot notebook and verify that this resolves the issue.
Regards.

Too little free disk space (FileVault problem)

I've recently been downloading and/or deleting fairly large files, and FileVault hasn't been offering to clean up my home directory on reboot. This means my computer has 276.9 MB of free disk space - not an ideal situation. I'd very much like to just turn off filevault at this point - I'm nothing but unhappy with its performance - but, of course, I don't have the free disk space to do so.
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Greets

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Out of disk space message

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zinga wrote:
Me three.
Channeling Theodore Sturgeon?
my 'other' things takes up 400GB out of my whole 500GB mac mini hard drive.
(1) This is the Macbook Pro forum, not the Mac Mini forum.
(2) How do you know the other two are also using Lion?
(3) How do you know you have the same 'problem'?
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