testcard wrote: > Dear all, > > wonder if anyone's ecountered this? > > Im running windowsXP within VMware fusion on my macbookpro 10.5.5 > when i empty the recycle bin (within windows), and return to OSX it doesn't > show any reduction in disk space remaining. Am i missing something in the > VMware preferences? > > thanks for any advice > > adrian
the default setting for a VM harddisk is to dynamically expand up to the maximum value set during the creation of the VM rather then preallocate the that maximum size to the VM harddisk. Unfortunately the dynamic sizing does work downwards (where if you delete files from the harddisk of the VM the size of the disk will shrink). What you need to do is open vmware tools (on your system tray (next to the clock)) goto the shrink tab select the drive to shrink & hit the Prepare to shrink button vmware will do it's thing in windows, then OS X will pop up with a confirmation window to shrink the disk. Sevan / Venture37 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
