I have installed Cygwin with more than half the whole package available. Unluckly for me the installation has been interrupted as the laptot turn into low-power standby... I could not take back the installation and I noticed that it has taken around 6GB of disc space. So i wonder if you could help me to remove those useless previous package files.. I am on windows 7.
Thank you in advance
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I tried to update my mojave to catalina in order to update Xcode... But impossible I have 27Gb Free space but all time this error:
an error occurred while installing the selected updates
And after each error I have 8Gb in less, so if I continue I while arrive to not have free space, I don't know how to delete this fail load on my system storage.
I found that 8Gb are add in private/var/folders (never touch this folders) just reboot in safe mode, this will erase temporary file...
As found here:
A clean install uses up around 20 GB of storage space. In addition,
you need to allow for space for your user data, applications, and
future updates. As if that weren’t enough, you should keep at least 10
to15 percent of the startup drive free to ensure adequate performance.
I normally suggest a good deal more free space than that, but here
we’re just talking about a minimum to ensure you can install and use
macOS Catalina.
So the solution may be freeing up to 30 GB of space, just to be sure.
You can try this utility to better identify some files to delete.
I am trying to install Linux in a computer that has Windows 7. The first step was shrinking the disk size but Windows did not allow any reduction. Thus I followed a number of steps to disable "unmovable" files
I disabled the Page File
I disabled hibernation
I disabled System Protection
After that nothing seemed to have changed so I checked the disk fragmentation and it was 11% fragmented. I have since then run at least 4 defrags and I have also defragged the free space using Defraggler.
As of now the disk looks like this
Right now, Windows refuses to shrink the partition by any amount (I imagine that the files at the end of the disk are the troublesome ones).
Coming from an Linux background I am unsure what else needs to be done in order to shrink the partition.
Are you using Windows disk management tool to do the shrink? Here's a link for that method.
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/resize-a-partition-for-free-in-windows-vista/
Also make sure the recycle bin on that drive is empty.
I finally figured it out.
The easiest way is just to use a Live USB with GParted on it since that will allow you to move Windows protected files around (the windows OS is not loaded on the live distro).
If just defragmenting is concerned one can use Hiren's Boot CD and the included Defraggler for the same purpose.
I had the same problem on Windows 10. Turns out it was antivirus software that was running on the machine that prevented defragmentation happen properly. I actually had to temporarily uninstall antivirus. After that, the Disk Management tool was able to correctly shrink the volume.
My computer runs Windows 8. I have a VM Virtual Box Instance of Mac OSX. I made the hard disk 20GB at first, but now I need it to be bigger. I made a back up of the hard disk and then proceeded to resize the original hard disk to 30GB. Now I am trying to actually be able to use the extra 10GB I have added.
First I tried to do this through Disk Utility on the actual VM to no avail. When I tried to resize the partition to use the entire available space, and then clicked "apply" it simply did nothing. When I tried to resize the partition to use any less than the entire available space, it gave me the error MediaKit reports partition (map) too small.
Now I have loaded a GParted ISO onto the VM, and have been trying to use that to resize the hard disk but this is also to no avail. Here is an image of the situation with GParted:
When I try to resize "Yosemite Erase" (the hard disk) it says that the minimum and maximum space that it can take up are the same, 19.20GB, which is what it currently is. I tried moving the "Recovery HD" over to the other side of the unallocated space. But I still was unable to resize "Yosemite Erase" for the same reason; it just doesn't let me.
The warning "YosemiteErase" has says Unable to read the contents of this file system! Because of this some operations may be unavailable. The cause might be a missing software package. The following list of software packages is required for hfs+ file support: hfsprogs.
Does anyone know what I should do?
EDIT:
Nevermind. It turns out that GParted does a "fix" of the hard disk before the GUI boots which I originally had disregarded. However it turns out that when I try to extend the size of the hard disk in Disk Utility, it now works perfectly because of this fix.
I ran into this issue trying to install Kali Linux on a Mac.
I installed "hfsprogs" as the error suggested:
sudo apt-get install hfsprogs
...but the error in Gparted never went away and it never showed the "used" amount on the hfs+ share, despite Gparted showing that the plugin was now installed.
Gparted also tried to "fix" it for me as well, that seemed to have no effect.
I ended up booting into OSX and using Disk Utility to resize the HFS+ partition.
I suspect that the hfsprogs package allows some info about HFS+ partitions in Gparted, but doesn't enable resizing partitions.
today I found that my laptop's fan is worked in full level. after checking performance tab in task manager I see CPU usage is 100% and not change. I see webproxy.exe process in top of resource monitor list and everytime I end this process, after 1 second it run again.
I searched for it but can't find any help. I just suspend it for help my dear CPU.
OS : windows 7 Professional
Arch. : x64
create a zip code, name it webproxy.exe, replace it with the real webproxy.exe file in C:/windows/syswow64 folder or where ever that is, in the safe mode.
I faced the same problem since I installed the "Web Freer".
It also copied the "webproxy.exe" file in the "C:\Windows\SysWOW64" location and even when I uninstalled the program, it ran it from there, so you may need to delete it by yourself from there too. It may help preventing the same problem again.
Trying to install Expression Studio 3 on an XP box with 3GB of RAM and amazingly the install fails with Out Of Memory error.
And the install truly does take up a huge amount of RAM.
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Am I missing something? Or does it require more that 3GB (never seen that before).
I ran into this same problem. You won't believe the solution. Minimize the installer window while the installation is running and it should finish okay. For some reason having the installer window visible leaks memory.
Along with DMKing's solution you can always run from the command line in silent mode:
[Location]\setup.exe" -q -params:ProductTag:param=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
where location is the setup file location. Also if your copy is from the MSDN you wont need the -params:ProductTag:param=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX as the key is pre pitted.