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Just purchased a Macbook Pro retina, 16GB, 758GB. After transfering all of my data from my previous Macbook pro, everything works fine, except for one odd problem. when I have about 5 - 8 apps open a FORCE QUIT APPLICATIONS menu appears - stating - "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for application memory"


I have never had this happen before, even when running 4GB or 8GB RAM.


Does anyone have advise on how to resolve this unusual situation.









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Posted on Jul 11, 2012 2:14 AM

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Jul 11, 2012 5:32 AM in response to vin-chan

Your boot volume is full. First, reboot. That will temporarily free up some space. According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB free for normal operation. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of your data.


Use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper to explore your volume and find out what's taking up the space.


Proceed further only if the problem hasn't been solved.


ODS can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To really see everything, you have to run it as root.


Back up all data now if you haven't already done so. No matter what happens, you should be able to restore your system to the state it was in at the time of that backup.


Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:


☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)


☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.


☞ If you’re running OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.


After installing ODS in the Applications folder, drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:


sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper


You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning not to screw up.


I don't recommend that you make a habit of this. Don't delete anything while running ODS as root. When you're done with it, quit it and also quit Terminal.

Jul 11, 2012 4:12 PM in response to Linc Davis

Hi Linc - many thanks for your advise. The problem is not that the boot volume is full. There is still more than 600GB available on the flash drive. So there is enough space the the virtual memory to expand, as well as the growth of my data.


I am running on OS X 10.7.4., with 16GB memory and 758GB flash drive.


So are we talklng about the same thing or different?


Message was edited by: vin-chan

Jul 11, 2012 4:20 PM in response to vin-chan

A false warning of low storage space can happen, but I don't know all possible causes of it. The only one I do know about is moving a Safari download before it completes. If you did that, that's the answer. Otherwise I don't know. If the problem is persistent, call AppleCare. Remember that you have 14 days in which to return the unit for a refund, no questions asked.

Jul 13, 2012 2:39 AM in response to Linc Davis

Thanks Linc for your suggestions.

After using ACTIVITY MONITOR, I noticed that "iCal Helper" was eating up mast of the RAM. I tracked down a similar problem posted on apple community discussions,


I used the solution described by jcderre in the link below. After doing this, everything runs fine.


jcderre


Re: Ical Helper grabbing all CPU


Oct 27, 2011 3:05 PM ( in response to jcderre)


I have found how to solve the issue:

delete the file cahe iCal Help files located in

/Users/myusername/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache

/Users/myusername/Library/Calendars/Calendar Cache~

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