No Hard disk space, huge sparsimage..?

J

j0nnylondon

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Hi,

I've got 37gb 12" powerbook running 10.4.5- perfectly adequate and all my home folder documents only total 6gb, but my sparsimage for my login takes up 22gb which has left me without hard disk and I can;t find any help on how to reduce it-

Can someone advise me how to reduce this to a more realistic size or explain why this would be, and how to avoid/remedy this?

Many thanks

Jon
 
I'd definitely back up your home folder and then turn FileVault off completely. If necessary, reinstall OS X on the PB. FileVault, it seems, is more of a problem than a solution. You can still create an encrypted disk image yourself, wherein you put data you really want to be safe.
 
thanks for this.

Rather than reinstalling the OS can I not create a new user, then delete the old user (and all its related space hungry components?) or does this sparsimage relate to more than user-only relevant files (i.e system files)?/
thanks again.

I just tried turning filevault off but it requires 2.1gb to create a non-encrypted version... catch 22?

jon
 
Yes, you can do that. (Creating a new user etc.) At least if the space for doing that is still there, that is... Just create another admin user (and I'd keep that for later on, too), back up your stuff to an external disk and then delete the old user. Then re-create it as a normal user (no admin) and put the stuff back from the backup. Should work just fine.
 
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