Tricksy FileVault and Parallels

Jul 28, 2008 | Discuss | Tags: filevault, parallels, software, support  

After hitting a roadblock with Parallels this morning, in which it told me repeatedly that it couldn’t allocate memory, I discovered that I was out of disk space. How could this be, thought I? I just added a 500gb drive and have over 100gb free still!
Then I noticed that inside my home folder, Finder indicated I had a mere 165mb free, whereas Finder in the drive root showed the actual space. Turns out that FileVault, which is a simple sparse image file, doesn’t know that t now has a …