Wheres My Disk Space??

Ok so I got really used to to my workflow incorporating my disk space display at the bottom of my finder windows. How to I turn this back on with Lion, I know there is a way for me to simply monitor my hard drive space.

thanks that just made my day

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Where has disk space gone?

I am running Vista Home premium OS. When I look at the SW Preload C: drive it says that I have 105G capacity and am using 102G. When I look at all of the the visible directoriies, they say I am using about 40G. When I use the DOS command window, I see other directories such as RRBackups and "System Volume Information" which I am not able to view. How do I determine how much space is being used by these directories? How do I view these directories?
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I've been driven nuts by wondering where my hard drive on my X60 has been disappearing to! Now - after months of deleting tons of PowerPoint files, video etc to try to make space and having to buy CDs to copy them to - which is hardly efficient (and fearing viruses, Trojans or something worse as being the cause) - I have recovered FIFTY GIGABYTES!!!!!! I am so relieved, but SO B****Y ANGRY!!!!! What kind of an idiot thinks putting utilities on like R&R is a good idea without making it very clear to users what the effect of having it is going to do? It was only after downloading Space Monger software to analyse my hard drive that I found 'protected sections' of the disk and that it referred to RRBackup. A Google lead me to the Lenovo pages and then I found so many other people with the same problems as I had been having!
Don't get me wrong, a back up utility is useful - but for God's sake Lenovo do a better job of telling people that it will use increasingly more of the hard drive to store backups. As it happens, I back up to an external hard drive so don't need the R&R feature, and I am a bit sceptical that a backup on a drive that might fail is useful anyway. But that's by the by....
The inconvenience and hassle this 'feature' has caused me is considerable and I guess it's the same for many other people too. Still, at least I've found it - deleted the backups and now have a hard drive that's usable again!

Quick Free Way to find out where you Disk Space is being used.

you can do the same search for files/directory sizes for free with a simple unix command.
du -k ~ | sort -n
this does your home drive
sudo du -k / | sort -n
this does the entire hdd
du -ak ~ | sort -n
this does your home drive with files and directories
sudo -ak / | sort -n
this does your hdd files and directories
you can add a > <filename> so that you can search the output example.
du -k ~ | sort -n > directory_inventory.txt
i have been seeing a lot of need for a command like this so that users know what directories are taking up a lot of space on there hard disk drive.

nice, but i don't want to clutter up my drive with applications when they are built in, and if you really need a gui just use xcode and the above commands to get your gui.

Running out of Gigs of disk space within seconds

I can't pin-point the exact reason, but recently, a certain operation has caused my 69 Gig root partition to suddenly jumps from less than 30% used to 100% used...twice. I believe it has to do with yaourt, but it could just as easily be flash or slim at this rate.
Yesterday, when I had this problem, I ran "pacman -Sc", deleted all the old log files, and finally, rebooted. This heavily reduced the load that time (100% to 19%), but today, running "pacman -Scc" and restarting turned out to only reduce the used percentage from 100% to 95%. Any ideas why this is happening, where to amend it, and how to prevent this problem in the future?

jasonwryan wrote:
If it is yaourt related, it may be /tmp.
You need to narrow down where the disk space is being eaten up:
df -k
Like this?
$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 10240 212 10028 3% /dev
/dev/sda7 72075600 64670416 3743924 95% /
shm 1284280 308 1283972 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 253871 16188 224576 7% /boot
/dev/sda8 51605116 7032088 41951640 15% /home
/dev/sda3 41943036 22088176 19854860 53% /mnt/share
/dev/sda2 136215132 57500848 78714284 43% /mnt/windows
I've noticed var, usr, and opt seems to be pretty large. The other big folders are mounted from separate partitions.
$ sudo du -hs /*
5.7M /bin
14M /boot
212K /dev
7.2M /etc
du: cannot access `/home/japtar10101/.gvfs': Permission denied
6.6G /home
75M /lib
4.0K /lib64
16K /lost+found
4.0K /media
75G /mnt
2.3G /opt
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/task/4971/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/task/4971/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/fd/3': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `/proc/4971/fdinfo/3': No such file or directory
0 /proc
3.8M /root
9.9M /sbin
20K /srv
0 /sys
740K /tmp
5.5G /usr
124M /var
$ sudo du -hs /usr/*
354M /usr/bin
235M /usr/include
2.2G /usr/lib
190M /usr/lib32
4.0K /usr/libexec
216K /usr/local
12K /usr/man
10M /usr/sbin
2.5G /usr/share
54M /usr/src
$ sudo du -hs /var/*
5.4M /var/cache
4.0K /var/empty
12K /var/games
112M /var/lib
4.0K /var/local
12K /var/lock
6.0M /var/log
0 /var/mail
4.0K /var/opt
120K /var/run
104K /var/spool
12K /var/tmp
$ sudo du -hs /opt/*
5.0M /opt/doukutsu
517M /opt/sauerbraten
112M /opt/secondlife
431M /opt/warsow
1.3G /opt/xonotic
Last edited by japtar10101 (2011-03-12 06:29:30)

Finding 'missing' disk space

I have a 2008 MacBook Pro with a 325g hard drive. I want to change the current hard drive for a 240g SSD drive. Unfortunately, I can seem to get the drive down to 200g's. It is running 10.9.1 and all the photos from Lightroom5 and iPhoto have been removed. I have Office 2011 on the drive and that's about it. I can't figure out what is taking up all the disk space.
I have 10.9.1 on a desktop and it runs off a 256g SSD that isn't half full. It has full versions of Lightroom5, Photoshop CC, and Office (although I have several hard drives for image and document storage.
It's driving me crazy trying to identify where the disk space is. I ran Parallels at one time, but removed it and 'uninstalled' it, but I wonder if it is taking up some of the 'missing space'.
Any strategies or techniques to find the 'missing space' is appreciated.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6047
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13806
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Exchange 2013 Disk space alert on SCOM

Hi All,
We have received SCOM alert for one of our Exchange 2013 server where the disk space is 100 GB and free space is 99 GB still I got an alert saying threshold 200 GB. Please help me to solve this.
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Hi,
For this issue, you can just disable this alert with a SCOM override or you can modify the threshold in Managed availability.
For details, you can refer to the following article.
Monitoring Exchange 2013 with SCOM 2012 (Part 3)
http://www.msexchange.org/articles-tutorials/exchange-server-2013/management-administration/monitoring-exchange-2013-scom-2012-part3.html
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Disk Space Disappearing -- 10.2.8

I have a G3 PowerBook running OS X 10.2.8. I've noticed that my disk space disappears for some unexplained reason, although it does seem to happen most often after my daughter has been playing games on disney.com. Does anyone know how to pinpoint where the disk space is going, and more importantly, how to get it back? I've got an external hard disk and have moved lost of programs off of my Mac, but the gains are short-lived.
Thanks for any help/suggestions.

If you go to "more options" in the Search pane (upper right of this page) and enter "disney" and then search "all categories," you'll find other reports of "concerns" with visiting the Disney web site. Some are obviously just plain paranoia but such a search might be useful.
I've been rehabbing three old G3 PowerBooks for a friend who knew nothing about the Mac OSX maintenance scripts. On one machine, simply running one of the scripts freed up 2GB of space on his 8GB boot partition (the Wallstreet G3 PB has the "Old World ROM" OSX boot partition limitation).
To learn about this useful function, please refer to this article:
Running the Mac OS X maintenance scripts
The scripts run automatically but only if your computer is turned on and not sleeping in the wee hours of the morning. Obviously, 95 percent of Mac users won't benefit as their computer are either off or asleep at this time of day. The article shows how to run them manually.
There is a freeware program called "WhatSize" that reports what is eating up disk space but I've not been able to get it to run on a G3 PowerBook under 10.2.8, Seems to need Panther.
You might post which G3 PowerBook you have; this Apple article will help you identify yours:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=24604

Lost disk space - how do I recover it?

Let's do the math:
My iMac's hard drive ends up being around 605gb.
With Snow Leopard, and all my documents, the free HD space has been around 500gb.
With XP installed on a partition, the free HD space is 465gb in total. That seems about right.
Recently, however, I've noticed that my free HD space is close to 260gb. That means that nearly 200gb is unaccounted for, and I'm trying to track down the problem. I've cleaned cache, rebooted, and cleared the log files.
Are there any good ways to figure out where the disk space has gone - and how to get it back?
Thanks!

Using your instructions, Terminal yielded these results. My user name is replaced here with (username).
Last login: Sat Feb 6 14:36:16 on ttys000
adsl-71-141-123-132:~ (username)$ ls -Al /Volumes/
total 8
*lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Feb 6 13:51 DISK -> /*
d--x--x--x+ 9 root admin 306 Feb 5 11:02 G-DRIVE
adsl-71-141-123-132:~ (username)$
The DISK entry is for my computer, and the G-Drive for my backup disk. But since the former was not appended with a "d", I don't detect an error - or at least, Terminal doesn't.
I deleted the XP partition from my HD just in case, but still end up with these results:
Capacity: 639GB
Used: 342.81GB
Available: 296.98GB
I should have about 460GB available, by my latest count.

Where is "Reserve space for disk use" in iTunes? Docs are out of date

Hello,
Where did "Resereve space for disk use" go in iTunes? I can't find it any more.
This is major problem because if I want to auto-fill my phone (I don't have time to constantly set up playlists) I then get constantly get errors that my phone is full and that I can't take photos. This is really frustrating.
If I got to iTunes Help, the documentation is wrong and out of date. I have iTunes 11.1.5 and if I go to Help -> iTunes Help and look at this section, it's completely wrong. See attached screenshot.
The whole iTunes UX has become a confusing mess, I hope you're looking for a new product manager for it.
Thank you,
Geoff

I am having the same issue. It even tells you that you can reserve space on your phone in the iTunes help, but I can not figure out how to open the Autofill Settings window in iTunes. Here is what it says in help of iTunes 12.0.1.26:
Autofill settings
You can use Autofill to add songs to your iPod, iPhone, or iPad with a single click. You can set Autofill to select songs at random, or you can customize your settings.
You can select these options in the Autofill Settings window:
Other options are available at the bottom of the iTunes window when you're viewing music on your device:

Where to see free disk space in Lion?

So where has Apple moved the "free disk space: XXX GB" so we can easily find it? I miss seeing it when I click on the hard drive window. I do know we can see it if we get info about the drive, but is there any way else to do it?

Are you talking about the status bar at the bottom of Finder windows?
When In Finder go to the Menu bar click on View then Show Status Bar.
That will put a bar on the bottom of your finder window and it tells you how many items in any folder you are viewing and remaining space on the Hard drive.

FCP X version 10.1.1. When Sharing to DVD I get the following alert " There was an error burning your discd. Not enough Disk Space in Target Folder" I have 700GB   free. Where is this target folder located? how can I fix this problem? not space prob

Sharing to DVD I get the following alert " There was an error burning your disc. Not enough Disk Space in Target Folder" I have 700GB   free. Where is this target folder located? How can I fix this problem? This is definitely not a space problem.
Since starting with FCP X, there has been tons of issues, now that the product actually works with the exception above, makes it impossible to share the production. Has Apple fixed this problem. is there a knowledge base article on this?
On another note, One reason I have not purchased support on FCP X is because you sold a product that never worked for almost an entire year or more.   Now I can finally finish my project, I cannot share it.....Really. This has to be fixed now, I am loosing money as I typed this.
Regards,
Rob Harris

Just curious, why would repairing permissions, rebooting ( rebooted 2 times already today) or creating a new user possibly fix this.
I cannot create a new user, that is way too much work. I will repair permissions again, I repaired permissions just a few days ago. Then I will reboot, login and turn off App Nap and rerun the Share DVD.
There must be something seriously wrong with the OS if your are suggesting creating another user.   WOW!
Rob H.

Where Does Yosemite Installer Hide? (aka missing disk space)

I've been using a 400GB partition on an external drive for Time Machine backups for some time and it's had plenty of room to work with. I upgraded to Yosemite recently and all was well with the Time Machine backups.
Yesterday I downloaded Yosemite again to install it on a second drive so that I would have a second bootable drive. Today I got notice that there was not enough space on my Time Machine backup drive. Suddenly the 400GB was not enough and my primary boot drive had swollen to 480GB. I don't know what it had been, but obviously there is now a lot more on it than there was.
My assumption is that I have the Yosemite Installer and/or hidden installer files that didn't get cleaned up after the second installation. I can't find anything in hidden files or folders that I recognize as such but soemthing is eating up lots of disk space that I need to free.
Where does the App Store stash downloads in case that's it?
If I hold Option on a restart, I no longer have the Installer as an optional boot disk, but I do get three "Recovery-10"... disks. Possibly those are the problem, but I can't locate them either.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Ok, I may have found a possible solution. I found this at stack exchange. It's not the best option and it requires a simple shell command, and will not be able to be used to restore from Time Machine, but for backing up one or more directory, at least in the short term, this will work. Here it is:
There seems to be an issue with Yosemite renaming the computer local host by adding (#) after the computer name. There are other reports of this happening in a thread on MacRumors Forum and I believe a few people have blamed this as a cause of time machine backup failures. I've tried a few of the suggestions in the thread but so far none have worked. I've stopped using time machine for now and reverted to an old bash rsync script.
A really simple solution is to open the terminal and type:
rsync -avu ~/ /Volumes/backup_disk/backup_folder
replacing 'backup_disk' with the name of your external hard drive and 'backup_folder' with the name of the backup folder i.e.: 'yosemite_backup'. The three flags -avu mean: archive (a) copy the home directory recursively into sub folders, verbose (v) print to the terminal window everything you are copying (feel free to leave this out) and update (u) will only overwrite files that are newer than the archived file (useful after the initial main backup). This solution isn't as hands off as time machine but at least it's a simple way to back up vital information in Documents and Pictures/Videos.
Hope this helps!
to read the full discussion go to http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/151662/os-x-yosemite-time-machine-ident ity-of-the-backup-disk-has-changed

Is this now where to ask DVD Studio Pro questions? If not, please let me know where. Here's my question: Using DVD Studio Pro 3, when trying to burn a disc which is 4.5GB, I get error message "Not eough disk space in target folder". What to do?

Is this now where to ask DVD Studio Pro questions? If not, please let me know where. Here's my question: Using DVD Studio Pro 3, when trying to burn a disc which is 4.5GB, I get error message "Not eough disk space in target folder". What to do?

Thanks. Unfortunately, I need to make a master DVD that can then be duplicated in bulk as a single layer disc. This surprises me because I tried burning a different DVD project that has worked in the past which is also 4.5 GB and now I could not burn that either. I also reencoded some material to get the new project down to 4.4 GB but it still would not burn. Any ideas are appreciated.

Where is my "local disk" space?

I've been using a PC for over 15 years and I just got my PowerBook and I feel like a complete computer dummy. I'm trying to install a game and I keep getting an error message that doesn't make sense. It says it "requires at least 1MB of free disk space. Free up some space on your local disk and then re-launch..." I have way more space than that so what am I doing wrong?

Hi Roxanne
Some applications do come in an installer package while others do not, and you will be seeing the application itself on the CD folder window. In the latter case you just drag and drop the application into your applications folder, as the previous poster explained. The app/game will be copied across. You can then eject the CD. Run the app/game by double-clicking it in the applications folder.
For apps you run regularly you can place their icon in the Dock by just dragging their app icon from the applications folder to where you like in the Dock.
Matthew Whiting

Where did my disk space go?

Hey,
I installed windows 7 on a 79 gb bootcamp partition on my rMBP.
When I check the folders on the partition through finder, the sum of used space is about 30gb
I only have windows and solid works on that partition
BUT finder and disk utility says it's only 19gb left. It should be around 50?
Where did 30gb of my disk space go??
I'm having a hard time believe that solid works and windows is 60gb?

In my humble opionion do not disable hibernation or reduce the size of the page file. Doing this will cause your computer and Windows to not run as designed. I know there are suggestions and explanations about how to do this, but doing so may cause issues.
If you need more disk space, use CampTune, or remove and reinstall Windows in a larger partition.

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