Hard drive almost full...

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WakkoWarner

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I noticed that my hard drive is almost full. This is a 750 GB drive, with a 200 GB Bootcamp partition, and the rest for OS X. The OS X side is almost full. I did some digging around and discovered that the Parallels virtual machine for my Bootcamp partition is chewing up 220 GB on my Mac partition. Is this normal?? If not, how do I correct it?? Any input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

P.S. I am running Parallels 9.0.23350 (Revision 941886).
 
WakkoWarner said:
I noticed that my hard drive is almost full. This is a 750 GB drive, with a 200 GB Bootcamp partition, and the rest for OS X. The OS X side is almost full. I did some digging around and discovered that the Parallels virtual machine for my Bootcamp partition is chewing up 220 GB on my Mac partition. Is this normal?? If not, how do I correct it?? Any input will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

P.S. I am running Parallels 9.0.23350 (Revision 941886).
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Hi,

So you have both Boot Camp partition ~200GB and a Virtual machine ~200 GB?
Basically if your virtual machine is BASED on the Boot Camp -> it should have ~100MB maximum size.
Seems like you have separated Windows installations for the Boot Camp and the virtual machine.
Also, please note that the Windows virtual machine has self-expanding hard drive by default, so when you download something working within the virtual machine -> it will grow automatically taking the space from the host (Mac)
Also, as a suggestion ,you may try to use this free soft from Mac to see where is the rest of the hard drive memory used:

http://omnidisksweeper.en.softonic.com/mac

PLEASE NOTE: don't remove something with this program or do it carefully as you may lost some system data by mistake.
 
I used that program and it shows Windows 7.pvm as the largest file on the hard drive. When I go into the file, it shows that the largest portion of it is titled "parallels.log.1". Can I just delete it, if it is only a log file??
 
Okay. I just went ahead and deleted the file, along with two other log files that were g zipped. Now I have all of my extra hard drive space back. Why does Parallels do this?? Is there a way to stop these logs from being created??
 
Hello,

Nice to know that the issue was in log file.

Please go to Parallels Desktop -> Preferences -> Advanced

There is "extended log" checkbox, untick it please.
 
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