Can no longer save to a windows server: "The disk is full or too many files are open"

Hello everyone, I have a black MacBook and have been running Parallels for around 4 months without problem.

Now, I cannot save anything to the Windows server I usually work to and from. The error message is "The disk is full or too many files are open"

Even if I have only one file open, the error message is the same.

Whilst I know that there is around 60GB of free space on the Windows server, if I right click and look at it via Windows, it appears full. Perhaps this is a clue to some of you who know about this sort of thing.

It's getting to the point where I've asked around locally, and no-one can think of either the cause of the fault, or the solution.

If anyone can help, please, please, post your solution. I'm sure you can imagine how frustrating this is.

Many thanks everyone.

 

hi.

How you determine that you have 60 Gb of free disk space if as you described above guest system show you that disk is full?

with best regards,
Alexander

 

Hi Alexander, thanks for your reply.

I can tell there is still 60GB left on the disk I'm trying to write to by using the right-click function in Windows on another computer.. I right click the drive letter and can see the pie-chart.

If I do it in my own computer (i.e. a MacBook running Parallels, an odd thing happens. It is showing the same Windows drive as having only a 1GB capacity, with only 12kb free. Very unusual. Very frustrating.

The Windows OS are XP, and my Mac runs OS X.

Help help help!!

 

Could you paste here disk properties screenshot here?

 

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Hi hi, thanks for getting involved... here's the screen shot. (I hope it's uploaded ok)

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Ok, the problem is not in Windows disks, but in Shared folders,
Check following
- Did you mount shared folders as read only?
- If problem is still there, try to reinstall Parallels Tools

 

Thanks for the guidance... would you let me know which menus I need to be looking through to find the settings to adjust please. Much appreciated - this could be the light at the end of the tunnel.

 

check following
Shared Folders
Parallels Desktop for Mac user guide from http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/doc/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac_User_Guide.pdf on page 207

Parallels tools
Parallels Desktop for Mac user guide from http://www.parallels.com/en/download/file/doc/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac_User_Guide.pdf on page 97

 

I reinstalled Parallels tools, and have worked through the shared folders instructions on page 207, but I'm afraid the problem remains.

It's no problem for me to browse and open files from the Windows server (which I only do when Parallels in running)... so the problem of trying to save from the Windows virtual machine to the Windows server remains... and it looks like it's because the virtual machine thinks that the Windows server is only 1GB with only 12kb of space (when it's actually 200GB with 60GB of space).

If I use Windows Explorer to examine the properties of the local drive, it tells the truth (capacity 32GB, 18GB free).

Please continue to offer solutions to me - I'm sure there are others out there who are suffering too.

 

Could you provide us with details about your virtual machine:

1. Whether virtual disk use real hard disk partition (bootcamp) or was created as image?

The rest questions related to case if disk was created as image:
2. whether it has expanding or plain disk type?
3. How much free disk space available at host Mac OS X system by path where disk image files (i.e. virtual machine files) placed?

with best regards,
Alexander