The Sit­u­a­tion: You have a Mac OS X Server with net­work home direc­to­ries and disk quotas enabled.

Yep, we use net­work home direc­to­ries with OS X Server in our Mac Lab. The disk quotas in Tiger work great, except for when…

The Prob­lem: The Mac OS Finder on client machines does not have very good sup­port for warn­ing users they are approach­ing their file quota limit. They end up all of sudden unable to save files with little or no expla­na­tion as to why.

Yeah, that. The dock reverts to the default Apple dock. iMovie keeps telling you there’s not enough space to save any­thing (even to an empty par­ti­tion). InDe­sign spits out all sorts of weird error mes­sages when you open it. And oh yeah, because of a cer­tain login hook we run, Font­Ex­plorer X loses our entire Font Folio type library (not FontExplorer’s fault).

Mean­while, our poor data heavy stu­dents have no idea what’s going on.

The Solu­tion: Quo­ta­Mon­i­tor­Menu places the user’s home folder quota status right in the menu bar. It will also pop up warn­ings at reg­u­lar inter­vals. All warn­ings and text are customizable.

• Quo­ta­Mon­i­tor­Menu 1.1 - BETA

Yes, a very handy little util­ity indeed.

Via AFP548.