Mac OS X File Vault HD problem

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phyburn

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Hey guys,

It seems I have a problem here with filevault I deleted over 20GBs of music from my computer that has File Vault enabled. After deleting all of those files no new HD space was found. I still had the same amount before I deleted all of the files Ive always remembered that after deleting large files when I restart I must go through a process where file vault wants to "clean" files and what not. Not quite sure the name they call it. I haven't seen this process run now in a few months. Now my HD is full. I am guessing this process needs to run. Is there anyway I can force this to run?

Thanks for your time

Running Mac OS X 10.4.8
 
You probably have done these things, but nevertheless a checklist I suppose:

1, Have you emptied Trash?

2, You have rebooted... have you tried just log out and log back in? Not quick user switch, but actually log out from the Apple menu from top-left corner.

3, Have you tried "secure empty trash" in Finder?
 
The HD is full because FileVault uses an image file that grows and grows. So when you delete a lot of files, this space is not freed up directly. FileVault, in general, is a problem, not a solution.
 
Back up your stuff now.

Then, logging out should present you with a dialog box saying File Vault needs to recover free space (or something like that...

Let it do that. Since you deleted 20G of files, it could take a very long time indeed.
If that doesn't fix it, you may need to run Disk Utility on your hard drive, then your <username>.sparseimage file.
 
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