[Toyin]

So I decide to move my Music Library out of my home folder based on some articles on Filevault. This is on my 12" Rev A PB.

My Music folder is a little over 15gb, I've got a 60gb HD and I've got 22gb of free space.

I decide to be conservative and select 9gb of the music library and move it to a folder on the same level as the users.

After about 30minutes I get the "you are running out of disk space" warning. WTF?
I check and sure enough I've only got 56mb left. Before I can stop the copy it get's cancelled and tells me there is not enough disk space to finish the copy. Now I've got 26MB left on the disk.

Fine, so I check to see how far the copy has gone (aprx 8gb) and I delete the corresponding files within my home folder. Still only 26MB left on the disk.

I thought maybe the logout would bring up the dialog that filevault is recovering disk space. No such luck. I reboot, no such luck.

I thought maybe I need more free space, so I delete the new music folder. Now I've got 9gb of free disk space. But filevault still refuses to give up any disk space. Logout/in, reboot, still only 9gb free. Delete the rest of my music folder, still only 9gb free. I search for all invisible files on my hard drive, nothing is larger than 500MB.

I boot into firewire mode and repair the disk from my desktop, no problems there.

So now I'm stuck. I can't recover the disk space and the only option I can see is to create a new user and delete my old user. In that case I may as well zero the drive and start over.

Anyone have a better solution?

[typoon]

What version of OS X are you running? 10.3.2? Have you tried to disable Filevault?

[Toyin]

10.3.2

Yes the 1st thing I tried to do was disable filevault, but I didn't have enough hard drive space. You see, my home folder, with music was 30gb, and I only had 22gb of free space left. So that's why I tried to move my music folder out of my home folder.

Anywho

What I ended up doing.
-Backed up my Home directory on an external FW drive
-Found the invisible .sparseimage file (which is your encrypted home folder)
-Threw it in the trash
-Logged out and back in which created a completely new set of folders (ie documents, library, movies...etc)
-Threw out my new library folder and replaced it with my library folder from the FW drive
-Logged out and back in
-Deleted the 39gb .sparseimage
-Disabled Filevault (which thought it was still activated which it clearly wasn't)
-Logged back in and copied the rest of my Home folder back.

Now I'm cruising along great and back to where I started before (sans Filevault). Filevault might look good on paper, but I'm not ready for it (or it's not ready for me). I'll just have to rely on the old fashioned security methods to save my data.


Happy Holidays

-Toyin

[MountainMac]

I came across this thread searching for a solution and just wanted to add a possible fix, as I was experiencing the same problems. I tried repairing permissions, MacJanitor, multiple restarts, etc., to no avail. However, I reset the PRAM and then logged in and restarted and it finally prompted me to reclaim unused disk space in my home folder. This is on 10.3.3.

HTH,

MM