Storage space question

I am recieving messages that my storage space is maxed out. I bought an external hard drive and connected that to the My Mac, and copied the files. What should I do next?

Moodybeach wrote:
I am was afraid to delete the files from my internal drive. I have read that sometimes the external hard drives fail. I have emptied my trash. I have deleted my emails. Most of my storage is home videos.
ALL hard drives fail - the question is, when. The files on both your internal and external disks should be backed up, then delete files (and empty the trash!) from the internal that you have copied to the external. You should aim to have at least 20GB free on the internal.

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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 !
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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
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Question Element 9 Storage Space?

Running Windows 7 - 64 bits
Please speak plain and simple and do not use industry slang words etc, etc, I'm a rookie here thank you.
I deleted a video clip off of my Winows Live Photo Gallary and it immediately impacted my Adobe video I was creating at the time. For a rookie like myself this was confusing so I re-stored it re-entered back into the video and everything was good.
Even though I still had the images and video stored on my camera software I needed to export that back into Window Live.
Now I have a ton of video clips even with 8.0 GB I have to think of removing some eventually. What should I do? Question I use this for marketing purposes for my company once I save a video I created to my computer is it safe to remove clips from that same movie? I do have an external hard drive for storage space but its a pain to use it I like having old clips on my sytem and I use what I need from them in future marketing. How should I go about this safely so I can make space and store it away safely with ez access please. Thank you for your time.

waterworshipper
I took at look at the situation that you described when you deleted a photo from Windows Live Photo Gallery and that created problems with a Premiere Elements project (probably a Media Offline/Missing Media Message).
My bottom line conclusion: When you delete individual photos from the Windows Live Photo Gallery, you are deleting originals from the computer hard drive save location. If these same photos are being used in a Premiere Elements project, you are in trouble since Premiere Elements needs to link back to the photo original at its hard drive save location. (Premiere Elements has copies, not originals, and depends on that link back to originals.)
What you also should look into are the Windows Live Photo Gallery Options which may be automatically scheduling the deletion of items from the computer hard drive.
If you used the Elements Organizer for organizing these photos, that program allows you to delete just the photo thumbnail in the Elements Organizer and not the original from the hard drive as well.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/choose-which-pictures-and-videos-are-disp layed-in-windows-photo-gallery
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/windows-photo-gallery-frequently-asked-qu estions
Some thoughts on your direct questions.
You wrote
Now I have a ton of video clips even with 8.0 GB I have to think of removing some eventually. What should I do?
I would not be deleting via Windows Live Photo Gallery.
You wrote
once I save a video I created to my computer is it safe to remove clips from that same movie?
Yes, since the clips are in the movie. But, if you want to reuse the project that created the movie, no it is not safe. And, if those same clips that went into this movie are being used in another project, no it is not safe.
You wrote
How should I go about this safely so I can make space and store it away safely with ez access please
Look into the Project Archiver (Trimmed or Copy option) for saving projects along with source media.
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/WS09e4b3c48f3a79fc19b622510385d4355c-7d cb.html
Please review. If any quesitons, please let us know.
Thanks.
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Storage spaces simple mirror question

I just have a simple mirror at the moment, with just two 1tb drives in mirror mode, and it works just fine. Two things I do wonder. If one drive fails, I assume the files would be preserved on the other. I wonder however if it can be plugged
into another Windows box, a Windows 7 machine for example, and read by that machine, or if it can only be read by the machine on which it was setup?
I have assumed Storage Spaces was like hardware raid in this way, but now I wonder....

Hi,
For mirror mode, it means that Data is duplicated on two or three physical disks, and this storage layout requires at least two disks to protect you from a single disk failure.
But you can't view the content in the disk since Storage Spaces records information about pools and storage spaces on the physical disks that compose the storage pool. Therefore, your pool and storage spaces are preserved when you move an entire storage
pool and its physical disks from one computer to another.
Windows Server 2012 starts storage that could potentially be shared with a cluster in a safe state. For Storage Spaces, that means the first time Windows connects to a storage pool, the pool starts as read-only and the storage spaces will start in a detached
state. To access your data, you must set the storage pool to read-write and then attach the storage spaces.
These steps do not apply to Windows 8 – storage pools start as read-write and storage spaces start as attached.
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After upgrading to 8.1 Pro from 8.0 Pro, my Storage Spaces and Storage Pool are all gone.

Under 8.0 I had three 4-terabyte drives set up as a Storage Pool in Storage Spaces. I had five storage-space drives using this pool I had
been using them for months with no problems. After upgrading to 8.1 ( which gave no errors ) the drives no longer exist. Going into "Storage Spaces" in the control panel, I do not see my existing storage pool or storage drives. I'm prompted
to create a new Pool and Storage Spaces. If I click the "Create Pool" it does not list the three drives I used previously as available to add.
Device Manager shows all three drives as present and OK.
Disk Management shows Disks 0,1,2,6. The gap in between 2 and 6 is where the 3,4,5 storage spaces drives were.
Nothing helpful in the event log or the services.
I've downloaded the ReclaiMe Storage Spaces recovery tool and it sees all of my logical drives with a "good" prognosis for recovery. I've not gone down that road yet though because it requires separate physical drives to copy everything to
and they want $299 for the privilege.
Does anyone have any ideas? I'm thinking of doing a fresh 8.1 install to another drive to see if it can see it or reinstalling 8.1 to the existing drive in the hope that it will just suddenly work. Or possibly going back to 8.0.
Thanks for your help!
Steve

Hi,
“For parity spaces you must backup your data and delete the parity spaces. At this point, you may upgrade or perform a clean install of Windows 8. After the upgrade or clean installation is complete, you may recreate parity spaces and
restore your data.”
I’d like to share the following article with you for reference:
Storage Spaces Frequently Asked Questions
(Pay attention to this part:How do I prepare Storage Spaces for upgrading from the Windows 8 Consumer Preview to Windows 8 Release Preview?)
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/11382.storage-spaces-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspx#How_do_I_prepare_Storage_Spaces_for_upgrading_from_the_Windows_8_Consumer_Preview_to_Windows_8_Release_Preview
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How is it possible to cancel (not suspend) a video download from iTunes Store (iPad under iOs 6)? (I do not have sufficient storage space on my iPad)

Hi,
I am facing the following difficulty with my iPad (model MD369NF/A) under iOs 6.1.3.
I have bought 2 videos on iTunes Store, but I do not succeed in downloading them: an error message mentions that iPas does not have enough storage capacity.
As a matter of face, when I look at the way the storage is used, I find “Others” for around 10 Go (is there some king of reserved space for the downloading of videos from iTunes Store?), and only a very small number of Mo available.
I would simply like to cancel the downloading of the 2 videos, and hope that it would free the "Others" storage space (in the hypothesis that "Others" is space reserved for videos once downloaded), but I do not manage to do it. I can suspend the downloading, but I do not see how to cancel it.
Would you have a solution to propose ?
Thanks in advance for your help,
Nicolas

Hey Nicolas36,
Thanks for the question, and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
The following article outlines issues with free space, capacity, and a large amount of "other" space. You'll want to connect your iPad to your computer with iTunes to follow the steps:
iOS: 'Not enough free space' alert when trying to sync
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1503
One symptom of this issue will be displayed in iTunes where the Capacity indicator for the iOS device will report a large amount of "Other" disk usage for the device. To resolve this issue:
- Turn off the music or photo sync option in iTunes for the device.
- Click Apply to sync the changes to the device.
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- Click Apply again to try to sync the device to iTunes.
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Unable to repair degraded Virtual disks in Storage Spaces under Hyper-V 2012 R2 Core

Hi all,
I am finding myself in the following conundrum. I have a storage pool under Hyper-V Core, with 2 2TB Seagate drives.
One of the drives completely died (wouldn't spin up, tried it in a different box, still to no avail). I sent it in to Seagate for warranty replacement, got the new drive. Installed it and went through the notions of adding it to the pool and retiring the
one that was with "Lost Communication" status.
Tried to repair the virtual disks that are showing as "Unhealthy-Detached", quickly get 100% complete, but the repair didnt work.
The storage pool is in degraded state.
Looks like metadata is corrupted.
Followed this post to upgrade Storage Spaces to latest version:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/eead59e9-5e49-4bb6-8cbb-1dafddd9576b/unable-to-repair-degraded-virtual-disks-in-storage-spaces-2012r2?forum=winserverfiles
Still, to no avail.
Couple of questions:
1) Is the data on the 3 virtual disks in state "Unhealthy: Detached" not recoverable?
2) How can I get the storage pool back to "healthy"?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
PS C:\corefig> Get-PhysicalDisk | ? OperationalStatus -ne OK | fl
ObjectId : {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Pr
oviders_v2\SPACES_PhysicalDisk.ObjectId="{95
42513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:PD:{7e22
245f-0cf6-11e3-b1db-806e6f6e6963}"
PassThroughClass :
PassThroughIds :
PassThroughNamespace :
PassThroughServer :
UniqueId :
AllocatedSize : 1218696970240
BusType : Unknown
CannotPoolReason : In a Pool
CanPool : False
Description :
DeviceId :
EnclosureNumber :
FirmwareVersion :
FriendlyName : PhysicalDisk-1
HealthStatus : Warning
IsIndicationEnabled :
IsPartial : False
LogicalSectorSize : 0
Manufacturer :
MediaType : UnSpecified
Model :
OperationalStatus : Lost Communication
OtherCannotPoolReasonDescription :
PartNumber :
PhysicalLocation :
PhysicalSectorSize : 0
SerialNumber :
Size : 1999575711744
SlotNumber :
SoftwareVersion :
SpindleSpeed : 0
SupportedUsages : {Auto-Select, Manual-Select, Hot Spare,
Retired...}
Usage : Retired
PSComputerName :
PS C:\corefig> get-physicaldisk
FriendlyName CanPool OperationalS HealthStatus Usage Size
tatus
PhysicalDisk4 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 73.75 GB
PhysicalDisk0 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.82 TB
PhysicalDi... False Lost Comm... Warning Retired 1.82 TB
PhysicalDisk2 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 930.75 GB
PhysicalDisk3 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 74.53 GB
PhysicalDisk1 False OK Healthy Auto-Select 1.82 TB
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Data' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e2229cf-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = CF29227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 548413636608
DetachedReason = Incomplete
FootprintOnPool = 1096827273216
FriendlyName = Data
HealthStatus = Unhealthy
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = False
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 1099511627776
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Backups' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e22255e-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = 5E25227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 743566213120
DetachedReason = Incomplete
FootprintOnPool = 1487132426240
FriendlyName = Backups
HealthStatus = Unhealthy
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = False
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 1649267441664
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Music' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e2238b9-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = B938227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 39728447488
DetachedReason = By Policy
FootprintOnPool = 79456894976
FriendlyName = Music
HealthStatus = Unknown
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = True
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 161061273600
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =
PS C:\corefig> get-virtualdisk -friendlyname 'Videos' |FC
class CimInstance#ROOT/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/MSFT_VirtualDisk
ObjectId = {1}\\HV001\root/Microsoft/Windows/Storage/Providers_v2\SPACES_Virt
ualDisk.ObjectId="{9542513c-a0d4-11e3-8123-806e6f6e6963}:VD:{3debf056-01f1-11
e3-b1d6-001fbc081884}{7e2225bc-0cf6-11e3-b1db-001fbc081884}"
PassThroughClass =
PassThroughIds =
PassThroughNamespace =
PassThroughServer =
UniqueId = BC25227EF60CE311B1DB001FBC081884
Access = Read/Write
AllocatedSize = 223606734848
DetachedReason = Incomplete
FootprintOnPool = 447213469696
FriendlyName = Videos
HealthStatus = Unhealthy
Interleave = 262144
IsDeduplicationEnabled = False
IsEnclosureAware = False
IsManualAttach = False
IsSnapshot = False
LogicalSectorSize = 512
Name =
NameFormat =
NumberOfAvailableCopies =
NumberOfColumns = 1
NumberOfDataCopies = 2
OperationalStatus = Detached
OtherOperationalStatusDescription =
OtherUsageDescription =
ParityLayout = Unknown
PhysicalDiskRedundancy = 1
PhysicalSectorSize = 4096
ProvisioningType = Thin
RequestNoSinglePointOfFailure = False
ResiliencySettingName = Mirror
Size = 1759325978624
UniqueIdFormat = Vendor Specific
UniqueIdFormatDescription =
Usage = Other
WriteCacheSize = 0
PSComputerName =

Hi omon_77,
You can first refer the following step by step third party article and KB:
Replace Failed Disks and Repair JBODs for Storage Spaces in Windows Server
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn782852.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396
Replacing a failed disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces with PowerShell
https://www.hodgkins.net.au/storage/replace-failed-disk-in-storage-spaces-pool-with-powershell/
Step By Step: How to Replace Faulty Disk In Two-Way Mirrored Storage Tiered Space
http://charbelnemnom.com/2014/09/step-by-step-how-to-replace-faulty-disk-in-two-way-mirrored-storage-tiered-space-storagespaces-ws2012r2/
More information:
Storage Spaces - Designing for Performance
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15200.storage-spaces-designing-for-performance.aspx
Storage Spaces Overview
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831739.aspx
Windows Server Storage Spaces: What is it and why should I use it?
http://curah.microsoft.com/5049/windows-server-2012-r2-storage-spaces-what-is-it-and-why-should-i-use-it
I’m glad to be of help to you!
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Do I need to partition storage space for windows 7 software?

I'm still debating if I should sell my Alienware and buy a MB Pro Ret and my main questions is concerning storage space.
I know that MBP can't compare to an Alienware gaming system but I hardly have time for that stuff anymore. I might play Skyrim every now and then, but that is the only game I care for really. I mainly want to have a light weight reliable laptop.
So... because I have so much software for my windows system now, I was looking into transferring that to the MBP. Lightroom 4, AutoCAD, Word and Exel, Photoshop... ext. ext. Which brings me to question:
Can I partition 50GB for the OS only and install all the software I have on that drive even if it wont fit on the Windows 7 partition?
In other words
Do I have to calculate how much space all my programs will take up for Windows 7 and partition that amount or do I only need enough space for the OS?
I have never owned a Mac and am not familiar with the OS, I was debating if I should partition 500Gigs and slowly transition from Windows to iOS and maybe one day get rid of the Windows partition and just have the iOS on there.
I don't know... that's why I am here... Apple has a great community so let the advising commence... haha.
Thanks for the help.
Dallo
Forgot to mention: If I do get a MBPR it will be the 2.6GHz, 16GB Ram and 512GB Flash

It's recommended to create the partition with enough space for your programs, but if you create a very small partition, install Paragon Camptune X or WinClone to resize the Windows partition

Install Windows Server 2012 R2 VM on Storage Spaces with Storage Tiers

Hey guys
In my small/medium sized company we will soon update to Windows Server 2012 R2. I would like to implement virtual servers using Hyper-V. I didn't find a lot of information about Hyper-V in combination with storages spaces and autoamted storage tiers.
And this is very confusing to me as it seems to me that this would be the best practice as it is the most cost-efficient and most elegant solution.
My ideal scenario:
With Hyper-V I virtualize two Windows Server 2012 R2 instances. So two separate virtual machines.
I use the following disk setup:
1x cheap HDD 40GB for hyper-v server 2012 r2 core.
2x SSD 200GB (enterprise-grade)
2x HDD 4TB (7.2k, enterprise-grade)
Step 1:
I will install Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 Core on the 40GB HDD. Via command line, I will create a storage pool with automated tiered storage using the SSDs and the HDDs in mirrored mode the following way:
With Tiered Storage, I create a storage pool containing the SSDs and the HDDs. Then I create storage space A (1TB) and B (3.2TB) with the SSDs in a mirrored setup and the HDDs in a mirrored setup. The SSDs for the „hot files“ and the HDDs for the „cold files“.
Step2:
Ontop of the storage space A I want to install the first Windows Server 2012 R2 instance with Active directory. On storage space B I want to install the second Windows Server 2012 R2 instance for a business application to run on it.
Conclusion:
The SSDs are mirrored and therefore one SSD can fail.
The 4TB HDDs are mirrored and therefore one HDD can fail.
I have a fast and easy scalable environment.
But in the Internet I found many information that it’s not possible to install an operating system onto a storage tier.
Question 1:
Is this setup possible?
Question 2:
If this setup is possible, why is not everyone doing it?
Question 3:
Is it possible to do Step 1 over a GUI from a remote machine?
Question 4:
If the creation of Storage Tiers in the Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 is not possible. Would it work to use a Windows Server 2012 R2 as a parent system on the 40GB HDD? To do Step 1?
I would gladly get some feedback of people knowing Storage Tiers well.
Thanks a lot!

I would absolutely prefer a GUI. But a Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Licence allows you to run two VM machines.
It also grants you a physical installation ("POSE" in the licensing documents). You can buy one copy of WS2012R2 Standard, install it on the hardware, enable Hyper-V, and then operate two virtual machines with WS2012R2 Standard ("VOSE"
in the licensing documents). The only restriction is that the management operating system (POSE) can only run services and applications meant to manage the virtual machines and/or the management operating system. The Hyper-V Server license is the same way
so it's not really any different.
In short, given the benefits of the GUI at your stage of learning, you have no solid reason not to install the full system and take advantage of it. You can disable the GUI later once you get your footing. Or not. Whatever suits you. However, in response
to your Question 3, you can do this all remotely. Once you get WS2012R2 installed in a guest, you can use it to manage the management operating system if you want. There are many options.
But then I would also need to have redundancy on the 40GB HDD as if this HDD brakes, all others brake as well?
Yes, you're going to want some redundancy for the management operating system. But, you've listed 5 drives in your original layout. You don't really have a 5-bay system, do you? Is there an empty sixth bay? Could you not get two 40 GB drives instead of one
and use hardware RAID-1?
Eric Siron
Altaro Hyper-V Blog
I am an independent blog contributor, not an Altaro employee. I am solely responsible for the content of my posts.

Possible Bug in iOS 8 via Streaming iTunes Video results in lost storage space?

Hi looking for suggestions or help on this issue if you can.
I'm not sure if the issue is my attempting to stream a movie from iTunes under iOS 8 or if it is a result of the iOS 8 update (size) itself or some type of memory leak or inability of memory to be released back to the OS.
This AM I had ~4.8GB of free space on my 16GB iPhone 5C; running under iOS 7. I then updated to iOS 8 by connecting the phone to my iMac and doing the install through iTunes under a USB wired connection. I however I did NOT check after the update how much space was "Available" after the update on the iPhone itself.
While streaming a long movie (LOTR extended) from the iCloud through the Apple Video app; now under iOS 8, I received a notification that my Storage space was nearly used up. While looking in Settings\Usage\Storage I can see that I had roughly 250MB of space "Available" but only 12.7GB was "USED." Here is were things get strange. Looking into the "Manage Storage" section I added up all of the space "used" by the apps listed (Video app was NOT listed) and came up with a sum of 6GB of used space. Now why is that? The listed 12.7GB of used space is not equal to 6GB what is using up the remaining 6.7GB?
Now my research of the web suggests iOS 7 was ~3.5GB in size and my best GUESS at iOS 8 is that it is a16GB - 12.7GB = 3.3GB; although I thought iOS 8 was going to use up more space? For the sake of argument lets say iOS 8 is 5.8GB and my calculated Used Space it 6GB, that equals 11.8GB. Where are the remaining 4.2GB?
Keep in mind I added No new apps (albeit a few updates to FindMyFrieds, Remote, Pages, AirPort Utility, FindMyiPhone all to be iOS 8 compatable). I also force quit the VIDEO app thinking that the video that was streaming was taking up local storage while it was playing. Is it possible that the memory was used up by the stream and is not being Released; hence it seems I have no available space?
Powering the phone down and re-starting it did not seem to do anything.
I still need to go home, connect to iTunes and double check if the available space on the phone matches to what iTunes see.
Thanks and sorry for the long question, just wanted to get as many variables out there in case anyone else has had this issue.

searching.4.answers . . . sounds like you too were able to "inform" your device that the content is no longer needed, great. I posted a solution that later didn't work for me when I streamed another video (see my post dated Nov 1 - cjdmedia). I then had great success using what others in this forum have suggested . . . I downloaded the free ibrowse app (do a quick google search for this and you'll find the website for it). Sure enough it was a piece of cake to navigate to the iCloud assets folder and find and delete the video file. That is my solution from now on. Unfortunate that I need to do that to have my storage space clear.
Also in my post I shared that I thought this was a bug, unfortunately I now believe that this could be intended behavior. The only question is how long does this data just sit there until it is removed by the system? or is it removed by the system? If it is not removed by the system at some point then a strong argument could be made that this is a bug. Streaming means that data is not permenantly saved on the device, right?
My fundamental issue is that I have 16GB storage that really means I have a total of 12.8GB (so says my iPhone). With no personal photos or videos, only 300MB of music, some books etc, and all the apps I want installed on my iPhone I end up with only 9GB available for anything else. A typical movie in HD takes up half of that. Not aware that the data of movies was being stored on my phone while streaming I completely filled up my iPhone only days after completely wiping and setting up. When I got the notification that my phone was full when trying to take video of my kids Trick-or-Treating - I was infuriated that something was hogging the memory in my phone, perhaps I had upgraded to iOS 8 too early before known issues were eliminated. I thought I had 9GB of space for pictures and video! To be fair, Apple did not ruin Halloween because my wife had her iPhone. I also know that this "issue" has been around since iOS 7 (based on my searching) and I haven't seen any confirmation it has ever been dealt with. From another apple discussion forum stream itunes purchased movies to iPad I discovered that if your device is almost full you can still "stream" because somehow the system knows how much space you have and then behaves more like what you'd expect from streaming which is interesting.
So to wrap this long post . . . it is obvious that to stream there needs to be data stored locally, but it is unclear how much data and how long this data will stay on your device. The quickest solution (requires a computer) is to use the iBrowse app and manually delete the movie files in the iCloud assets folder.

Storage Spaces: SSD tier size incorrect when using EnclosureAware option in a pool

Hi folks,
We're about to deploy Storage Spaces in our test environment, but we encountered an issue while configuring Enclosure Awareness on Storage Pools.
When we create a Storage Pool (over 3 JBOD's) and set the option EnclosureAwarenessDefault to $True, the SSD tier size automatically decreases / shrinks to 12GB (sometimes 18GB sometimes 0GB).
Without EnclosureAwarenessDefault, we get 1110 GB of SSD size available.
The same behavior is seen when enabling -EnclosureAwareness on Storage Space (virtual disk) level.
A summary of our configuration:
3 SOFS connected twice to each JBOD (LSI 9207-8e - SES 3 ) = HCL certified
3 JBOD arrays (Quanta M4600H) (Firmware Management SCSI Enclosure Service (SES-2) = HCL certified
Each JBOD array has 16 HDD and 4 SSD.
SOFS are fully patched, including KB 2913766
Below 2 screenshots:
EnclosureAwareDefault = $True
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=BB5A32452CA3BD6C%21436
EnclosureAwareDefault = $False
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=BB5A32452CA3BD6C%21437

Hi Partner,
Thank you for your detailed information and sorry for the delayed response.
After consulting with some senior engineers, please check the following:
Server manager does not let you set the column count of the space, which means that it is automatically selecting 6 as the column count, as there are 12 SSDs. Unfortunately, the column count must be less than the number of disks of each type in each
enclosure (limited by 4 SSDs), otherwise space creation will fail, and estimation will produce a small, somewhat random number. If you create a space through powershell and specify –NumberOfColumns 4 then it should work.
Hopefully it helps.
Feel free to let me know if you have any question. Thank your for your time.
Best Regards,
Sophia Sun
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How to find out where my storage space is going?

So, I have had this MacBook Pro 2009 for the past year, and it has treated me fairly well, so far! I have a question about my Hard Drive Space:
I purchased my laptop with a 250 GB Hard Drive, so I understand that I should get just over 200 GB's of actual storage space. Now I look and it says I have just about 15 gigs remaining. I was absolutely amazed, as I don't feel that I have an excess of programs, music, videos, or anything else to take up all fo the room. I would like to do 2 things, if I could:
1- I would like to be able to find out exactly where my storage has gone. I realize that I could go through and click on every single file and folder, one by one, to see how big it is, but is there an easier way? For example, I would love to see how much space each of my programs are taking up, or see if maybe I have duplicate videos somewhere, etc. Is there an easy way to do this?
2- I have also noticed that, if I uninstall a program, there is usually something left over in my Libraries folder, and in other places. I'm wondering...is there some sort of a disc cleaner, that will delete unnecessary files, hidden things, stuff like that?
Thanks for any/all help! Any suggestions as to how I can free up space on my HDD would be great.

1. Disc Inventory X will show you what's using the space.
2. CleanMyMac will help you delete unwanted and left-over items.

Columns in a 2way Mirror Storage Space

Hi
I have a similar question like J_Rod: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/7a37e6ed-7e22-485c-a5d1-6460b2c4d63b/mimicing-raid-10-resiliency-with-storage-spaces?forum=windowsserverpreview
Why should I consider using more than 2 Columns in a 2 way mirror Storage Space? For me it makes little difference between a Storage Space with a 2 Column 2 Way Mirroring and a 6 Column 2 Way Mirroring on a 12 Disk Storage Pool (like in the Picture).
Apart from:
big write/reads which are processed by 6 disk in the 6 column configuration instead of 2 in the 2 column configuration
Filling of the disk is not synchron over all disk with the 2 column configuration
therefor i get exactly what I expect of the Storage Space when I use the 2 column configuration and try to achieve the same Result as a classic RAID10 (RAID 0 over X RAID1)

So when I create a 2 Column Mirror Storage Space can I be certain sure that I will have a disk configuration like:
Disk1 -- Disk2 -- Disk3 -- Disk4 -- Disk5 -- Disk6
Data1 -- Data1 - Data2 -- Data2 - Data3 -- Data3
So I could loose disk 1,3 and 5?
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