Free Disk Space

Hi -- In my case it turns out the problem was precisely what the message said, that i didn't have enough space on my hard drive. Once I got rid of files and created more space on HD parallels began working properly again. if you go to the Macintosh HD and get info you can see how much space is left. After you move files to trash be sure to empty the trash.
Ken

 

Thanks

Hi Ken,

thanks for your reply. But for some reason parallels obviously creates somewhere huge files on my hd. Any idea, how I can check this and how I can find and delete them? There was plenty of space on my hd until yesterday.

Thank you ver<y much for your help

Johannes

 

problems with ms outlook in parallels

Hi,

I tried to copy my outlook.ost file from one user to another in parallels and all the time, I am trying it. parallels is quiting, saying "not enough disk space with the user". I do have more than 15 GB free space on my virtual disk, the file is 400 MB. Does anybody before had this problem and can help me?

Thanks

Johannes

 

Try to reinstall Parallels Tools, if you have enough disk space both in Mac OS and VM

 

not enough disk space too. parallels VM, os xp, mac mini

this is the quote "the point is that at the start Parallels Desktop creates a .mem file which size equals to the RAM, allocated to this VM. In your case its size is 512 Mb and there is not enough space on your HD to create it.
Could you please open Applications->Utilities->Disc Utility, pick put your Macintosh HD and make a screenshot? And attach them here please."

I am new to mac but also to parallels. Not even sure what the above means. someone please walk me thru. How do i make a screen shot? i also saw a thread about using disk image tool. I can not find this option anywhere? what do i do if its missing? details: I have a brand new mac mini. the only think i dumped into the mac was music into itunes. The VM said it would not launch at all due to 512mb.

any help is much appreciated. Ed

 

missing image file tool - update

please go to the link for update on missing "image file tool"

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/17/new-parallels-build-features-return-of-image-tool/

 

Hi,

The Disk Utility is under Finder -> Applications -> Utilities
The Image Tool is under Finder -> Applications -> Parallels

Please use the following commands to create a screen shot on Mac:

* Apple (Command) Key +Shift+3
Captures entire desktop to a file on the desktop as 'picture #' . This option lets you capture the whole screen. If you want just one window on your screen, you will have to edit the picture using image editing software.

* Apple (Command) Key +Shift+4
Allows you to use your mouse to select a specific part of your desktop for capture. This will turn your mouse pointer into a cross, please hold down the mouse button and drag to select the part of the screen you want. When you release the button the screenshot will "snap" that part of the screen. Press 'Esc' to release.

* Apple (Command) Key +Shift+4 then press Spacebar
Allows you to select which window to capture.

 

Guest operating system is unable to run ............

This seems to be the place for this error.
I deleted and rebooted and it worked for a while. Then it progressively got worse until i could no longer get in. like something is eating up space. 318 mb is where it stopped letting me in. the error message is below and I think i have attached the info you need to answer the questions.

thanks for your help,
john.

Only 318 MB of free disk space remains in the /Users/chris file system. Guest operating system is unable to run until at least 512 MB free disk is available. Please free some disk space.
Click OK if you cleared enough disk space or click Cancel to shutdown the Virtual Machine.

 

You need to free some disk space on Mac OS, at least 512
If you want Parallels Desktop to run faster, at least 5GB should be free

 

john,

i guess thats what i need help with. i have already deleted numerous files and emptied the trash. this worked temporarily. i also can not get into win parallels to delete any files there. i have a 55 gb hard drive. whatever it is seemed to be growing. ie it got progressively worse. my first warning was it was close to 512 then a few minutes later it was 505 then 462 then 318.

each time i deleted files it worked for a little while after i deleted the files then it seemed to quickly fill up on its own while i was trying to save data.

i just got a warning on the mac that the hard drive is full? this is a new one.

please more detailed advice - i'm not the sharpest tool in shed on the inner workings of the mac - i surf, e-mail, and do some spreadsheets in parallels. there's no reason it should be that full.

thanks,
john

 

update

despite deleting files the hd is now completely full. and, it wasn't before.

now when i try and delete more files it looks and sounds like its deleting but nothing shows up in the trash. so i'm not sure thats working.

also i tried dragging and dropping folders to a thumb drive. i cant move anything or copy anything.

another peculiar thing is when i click on a picture it doesn't open. but, when i try and delete it - it says it cant because its open.

any ideas/help appreciated.
jcc

ps dont even know why i can still browse the internet , send/ recieve e-mail and do this.

 

The problem is that you are out of space on Mac OS
Probably also you are using Snapshots,
But anyway you need to clean up disk space on Mac , even if you want to merge Snapshots

 

I'm not aware of anything called snapshots - i'm assuming thats some type of backup.

how do clean up disk space when the disk is full? is there another way?

i've tried deleting and nothing shows up on the trash. i don't think thats doing anything. the hard drive remains full with zero bytes free

i would prefer to copy some files to a thumb drive but that is not possible either. i cant copy. i can't move files either.

is there any other strategy? could i turn off this snapshots? if that would work then how would i go about doing that? maybe it was turned on by accident somehow.

you wrote elsewhere "Mac OS File system cache probably or program which creates to many temp files" is this a strategy I could pursue? if it is what steps would i need to take to solve the proble?

thanks,
john.

 

LEt me clarify,
First step is to clean Mac OS side,
In order to copy large files, external drive should be formated as HFS+ file system, which you can do using disk utility

 

problem solved

the solution (which my brother helped me fix) involved using the command terminal to delete files. so when someone cant delete files - which happens when the disk is 100% full and zero kb available - this could be what you direct them to. since i didn't actually fix the problem i cant give you the steps of how to delete but i imagine most anyone here would know that.


the problem accelerates after a certain point and quickly fills the disk up to 100% because of a program called aslmanager. after you delete some files you need to get that working. what happens when that quits working is that it continually writes to a log file and quickly fills your disk. i think you get that working with a reboot. once thats working properly it somehow begins working for you instead of against you. it starts optimizing caching whatever it gradually begins giving you more space.

none of the above may be technically correct but hopefully it could lead someone in the right direction.

thanks,
john