OS X :: Snow Leopard Takes 50gb Of Space?

Jul 25, 2010

When I restore a disk image in Snow Leopard it takes over 50gb of install space! I know that os x should take about 9gb. What is happening?

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OS X :: Snow Leopard Takes Too Long To Sleep?

Aug 30, 2009

I recently upgrade my leopard to snow leopard and when ever i put the computer to sleep it takes quite a while for it to actually go into sleep mode.

Now I tried pmset with no success like so: sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0

Why does snow leopard take so long to go to sleep, does anyone else have this issue? Is there anything else i could try to fix it. It says hibernatemode is 0 in pmset info table.

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OS X :: IMac With Snow Leopard Takes 20 Mins To Startup

Oct 30, 2010

The problem is, each time I restart my computer or put it back on again, it takes around 20 mins to start up. At the grey screen there is a grey bar that takes 20 mins to load.

Should I reinstall snow leopard?

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OS X :: Snow Leopard - Shut Down Takes Long Time

Sep 12, 2009

I upgraded to Snow Leopard I noticed that my shut down was very fast, about 2 seconds. Now all of a sudden it takes 10-15 seconds to shut down.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Ghost Sh Process Takes 95% Of Proc

May 25, 2012

I just noticed that there is a process named "sh" which takes between 90 and 95% of the proc all the time. I just installed all available updates, but I can't be sure this is related. 

The process I'm talking about cannot be seen in the activity monitor, but I can see it with istat. In command line, I'm unable to find it. 

Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2 GHz), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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IMac :: Takes 3 Minutes To Login After Snow Leopard Update

Sep 26, 2009

My iMac takes 3 minutes after logging in, until it allows any inputs. Stays stuck on the desktop, none of the hot corners work, nor does the dock allow inputs for about 3 minutes. I checked the Console immediately after it allows me to, and theres a bunch of stuff on the IOkit that seems to be the culprit.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Time Machine Back Up Takes Ages?

Feb 21, 2012

I got a PowerMac 2.66 GHz Quad Core Intel Xenon with a 640GB HD. The system is 10.6.8. For some reason the Time Machine back up takes ages since a few weeks. I deleteted allready a few older ones and the free space on the back up disk is about 122GB. Today it copied about 700MB and it took over 30 minutes. I'm preatty sure this was a lot faster before. get it quicker again or what can be a reason that it is so slow.

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PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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IMac :: Computer Now Takes About 2 Minutes To Boot Up After Installed Snow Leopard?

Sep 2, 2009

Have my iMac since March and absolutely no problem. Installed Snow Leopard this weekend and worked just perfect UNTIL I turned the machine off. The next day restarted my computer and now takes about 2 minutes to boot up/then when screen comes up it is frozen for about another 2-3 minutes before can start using it. So basically, takes about 5 minutes from start up to being able to use my iMac. Spent an hour on phone with Apple on Monday night--they really tried--but couldn't fix it and now want me to bring to local Apple authorize dealer to work on it. Called them and they think it is the hard drive going out. But just doesn't make sense---worked just fine until I loaded 10.6 and then turned off machine. Before I bring it in and have them open it up and fool with the internal hard drive---DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA'S WHAT IS HOLDING UP THE STARTUP.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: MBP Slow Start Up - Takes More Time To Work At Regular Speed

May 8, 2012

I have had my mac for a little of year, a few days ago I downloaded a few things. Since then it takes it about 10-15 minutes to start up, even after it starts up it takes a few more minutes for things to work at a regular speed. I have cleared firefox cache and reset the Pram.

Info:
MacBook Pro, iOS 5

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Software :: Sparseimage Takes Too Much Space?

Oct 29, 2008

'm new to computers, I have a macbook pro with a 120Gb hard drive. I try to delete some stuff from the trash and I don't see the space being free up after emptying the trash. (Is there a empty trash "bug" ?)

I tried closing it, doesn't work.

I got a message from a filevault for my hard drive space, tried it instead of skipping it, and after opening again, my free space was there...but I got something called a sparseimage that now takes 60Gb! What is that, How do I get my memory back?

I saw on your site how to deactivate it but when I tried, it ask me to free up 45Gb to be able to deactivate filevault...I don't have 45Gb left !

So how do I empty trash without closing the computer?

And how do I get my memory back?

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OS X :: How Much HD Space Does Snow Leopard Save

Sep 21, 2009

I went from having 16gig free before installing, to 33gig!

Can this be right?

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ITunes :: Downloaded Movie Takes Up To Much Space

Feb 17, 2012

I purchased my first movie in iTunes on the iPad 2 and I didn't realise how much space this would take up - this was only showing when I was already downloading it - it took up over 6GB of space and I have no idea how to get rid of it again or archive/move it somewhere else?

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iPad 2

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OS X :: How To Increase Swap Space In Snow Leopard

Apr 13, 2010

I'm running a 64 bit Matlab simulation on an enormous dataset and OS X (not Matlab) is telling me I'm running out of space on my startup disk for "application memory". I've got 300GB of free space on the hard drive, and only 60GB used as swap. I think the limit I'm hitting is the 64th swap file.

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OS X :: Snow Leopard Very Slow And No Free Space?

May 20, 2010

I was running Leopard 10.5.8 and my iMac 2.4GHz w/1GB Ram seemed to be getting slow. I upgraded to Snow Leopard. Without much running (Mail, Safari, iCal) it is very slow. At times, the free space has gotten down to 2.5MB in Activity Monitor. Nothing extraordinary seems to running when I open Activity Monitor. When I was trying to sync my iCal with MobileMe it really crawled.

I did a PRAM reset, ran Repair Disk with install disk and Disk Warrior without any errors.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Unchangeable Disk Space?

Feb 10, 2012

I bought Snow Leopard recently and attempted to install it yesterday. Mid-way through installation it cancelled due to "Unchangeable Disk Space."  It gave me the option to restart and re-install, which I attempted, to the same error.  I tried once more to no avail.  At this point I attempted to restart using the old operating system (Leopard).  When I did so the computer restarted.  It stayed on the initial grey boot up screen (with the mac logo and the spinning circle thing underneath) for about 3 minutes before shutting down.  This occurs every time I boot the computer back up.I am using a Macbook purchased November 2008 which was running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8. 

Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Available Disk Space Not Correct

Feb 11, 2012

I'm using a MacBook Pro (March 2011) running 10.6.8. 

I just deleted (technically backed up to an external raid and then deleted from the system disk) about 8gb worth of files. 

However, in Finder and in Disk Utility, it shows 1.96GB available.  That number is up a little and for awhile at least, was growing. 

I'm also experiencing this same problem on an external USB drive.  I deleted about 3 gb worth of files, but the available disk space hasn't increased.   

I'm coming from the PC world, where, if you delete a bunch of stuff, the free disk space magically increases to show the correct amount. 

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X Server V10.6 Snow Leopard :: It Says Do Not Have Enough Free Space

Jun 7, 2012

everytime i try to install 10.6 it says i do not have enough free space in my macintosh hd. i have tried deleting things several times and i continue to receive the same message.

Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

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MacBook Pro :: Where Can Find How Much Space An IMovie Project Takes Up

Jul 3, 2012

I am making A DVD and it says 'there is not enough disk space' when I try to burn it. The project is 73 mins long with some hd and sd footage

Info:
MacBook Pro, iOS 5.0.1

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MacBook Pro :: Kernel Task Takes A Huge Space In Memory

Aug 28, 2014

Product name: Macbook pro 13-inch
Processor speed: 2.5 GHz
Memory: 4 GB
Storage capacity: 500 GB
Software: OS X 10.9.4  

In the memory tab in activity monitor, it shows kernel_task which takes up 440 MB. It takes a huge amount of my memory. Also, my macbook pro is running down. I believe that one of the reason for this is kernel task. How do I fix this? 

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OS X :: Swap Space On Snow Leopard - Free Memory?

Oct 8, 2009

My Laptop runs slow and often spins when I open the browser or other apps sometimes and found the load average to be less than and also about 300MB free memory, till I notice swap as 40MB/256MB on iStat.

Questions:
1. How do I find out what process is causing the swap? The top does not show swap, and the vm_stat does not show swap either like vmstat does.
2. In the memory what does the wired, Active, Inactive memory mean? The only value that makes sense is Free.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Unable To Reallocated Hardrive Space

Mar 6, 2012

I removed a bootcamp windows 7 partion and unable to reallocated the hardrive space where windows was located. How do I recover unallocated space?

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Change Minimum Threshold For Space Available

Apr 30, 2012

Is it possible to change the minimum amount of space we want TM to leave available on the backup disk? I assume no but couldn't see any recent answers to see if this has changed (or if there is some hidden setting change). What's the default space or percentage free TM will make sure is available?

I backup some macs directly to the TM volume (network via CCC) and want to make sure a minimum of 20GB or so remains available for those backups at any given time. The drive is 1TB and TM has filled up about 700GB of that with ongoing backups so far. TM runs hourly so pruning should happen before the need arises (the CCC backups are 2x/day). But I'd like to make sure there's a minimum available at all times.

Info:
Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

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IMac (Intel) :: How To Reduce Amount Of Space (Other) Takes Up On Hard Drive

Jun 27, 2014

On my 27 inch, late 2012 iMac i have one terabyte on my hard drive. I am running out of space because the Other is so big? What does 'Other' contain and how do I reduce the amount of space it takes up

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OS X :: Incredible Speed And Free Space Increase With Snow Leopard

Aug 31, 2009

Strange as it may seem, when I installed Snow Leopard, I immediately freed almost 40 gig on my Macbook pro (can't imagine why) and speed was increased by a factor of 2-3 times. One more thing is that parallels is now "almost" as fast as a native program, especially with Quicken for windows, which is the only reason that I use parallels.

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Disk Utility Not Reporting Space Correctly?

Feb 27, 2012

I often add very large files to my system before compressing them, sending them to clients, and then deleting them. This process leaves me constantly thinking about how much disk space I have free. Disk Utility, and an Apple approved app called DaisyDisk (space visualization) typically help me accompish this. Sadly, as of this week I seem to have a problem. When I went and looked the other day Disk U was telling me that 250gb of my 320gb drive is in use. This seemed high to me, but to be safe I thought I'd delete some files I didn't need. After deleting a bunch of videos, and a backup of my Main Identity (19gb) from my system, I'd assumed I had freed up about 24gb, but when I went back into Disk U it was still showing the same 250gb in use. Yes I rebooted my system, and made sure the trash was empty.

As I investigated further I did a get info on all 6 folders on the MacHD and they added up to about 170gb. That seemed more realistic, so I did a get info on my MacHD and again it showed the same thing 170 in use and 148.something available. Note: I have no partitions on this drive. But yet, still when I go to Disk U it seemed to be stuck at only 64gb free. Today when I went and looked again I am still seeing the same amount in use and free on the MacHD get info, but on Disk U now I am seeing 108 free and 211 in use. Why the difference? I would think Get Info was pulling from the same place as the mac disk utility.

Info:
MacBook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Can't Start Mac Because Took Too Much Space And Now The Disk Doesn't Mount

Mar 27, 2012

I am most certain that this is the case: foolishly, I didnt leave much free space and now the disk doesnt want to mount. I tried the single user mode, I also booted from DVD, they appear but the disk utility shows the disk but I cannot repair the disk, because it is unmounted. I tried the basic commands in single user mode, no effect either. I still cant get over the blue screen with the apple logo and a circle running. I need to free up some spasce. Unforetunately, important  files were not backedup, so I really cant delete the whole disk. I need to delete specific files.  I dont know where are my big files located - so, how do I orientate myself among the folders? Lets say I would delete my itunes libary, which I would later on renew thanks to the back/up, how would I delete them? 

Info:
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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OS X Server V10.6 Snow Leopard :: How To See Which Users Taking Up Most Disk Space

May 11, 2012

I have about a dozen users on my Apple server.  What's the best way to see how much disk space on the several disks are being used by each username?

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OS X Server V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Adding Disk Space To Mac Mini

May 26, 2012

How can I add disk space to my mac mini server. An alais in the documents folder will not work. Running out fo disk space on my web server.  

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: 166Gb Of Free Space Not Showing In Finder

Jun 6, 2012

my Mac started saying I need to free up space on my Startup Disk. I was suprised, but as I've been doing some film work, I just thought it must take up even more space than I thought. Anway, I free'd up loads of spaced, I moved all my film files to an external disk, deleted them from where they were, and emptied the trash. I've got rid of other things like Internet cache and downloads, basically, I know i have space now. However, my Mac insists on saying I only have about 2Gb free. On another site, someone recommended something called Disk Inventory X, which gives a visual picture of what files etc are taking up space on the Mac. I ran this, and low and behold I have 166Gb free. The screen shot below shows the big blue square of free space. If you can zoom in, it shows this as something outside of the home 'Tiger' thing, under Users - .tiger, as though its partitioned or something?! I don't really understand how Mac's work under the hood of pretty buttons etc, so I'm a bit stuck now.   

why my Mac can't see or let me use all this free space? 

I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8. It is a 13" mid 2009 MacBook Pro 5.5, 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4Gb 1067 MHz DDR3 if that's of any help. 

Info:
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Takes Long Time To Find Free Space After Emptying Trash?

Jul 1, 2012

After emptying the trash, I've noticed that Lion does not see the additional free space until after doing a reboot, and even after that it takes a long time for it to find all the new free space. Anybody know what's wrong with the trash system?

Info:
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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