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The purgeable space mostly consists of local snapshots of Time Machine, and also caches, sleep images, swap files and other temporary system files. To DELETE: Open Terminal from the Applications folder > Utilities. Enter this command and press Enter to list all backup snapshots on your Mac: tmutil listlocalsnapshots /.
The app(s) using large amounts of storage space in Other, and the best way to free up that storage space, will depend on the app(s) installed. Hopefully the above information enables you find the files on your drive that are taking up the most space. You can then free up needed space by deleting those files or moving them to an external drive.
OK, this is weird/mysterious. They were in separate directories (one for each update) under /Library/updates, but I just went to grab a screenshot for you and they are all gone. And the disk space that they were occupying is released. I'm baffled. (1) i_rina.
I had this issue as well, and connecting external hard drives suddenly cut the data more than in half. I had 45 gigabyte left on my drive, after connecting three external SSD's I suddenly have 102 gigabytes of space available. According to your graphic Mac OS is taking 18GB. System data taking 155gb on Sonoma macOS.
Along with items that the OS created and doesn't necessarily need (like local TM snapshots), it is also items you have created that the OS knows exist somewhere else, like on iCloud Drive. So, the purgeable space on the external may be your files. There is no option to tell it to purge the space. If it is your files, you would need to delete them.
Paste the following in Terminal and tell us what the result is: tmutil listlocalsnapshots /. ”Available” is not, alas, the same as “Free”. Select your drive in the Finder and press Command-I to open the Info window. It will tell you how much space is considered “free” and how much is “purgeable”. Ideally, all that available ...
Deleted Macintosh HD and internal drives in disk utility HELP!! I was trying to wipe my MacBook and I’ve deleted the internal system Macintosh HD when in disk utility I can’t see any internal option only disk images. I’ve tried to download OS and as I don’t have an option for an internal storage it won’t let me download.
The specific option that you are looking for (Optimize/Manage storage from About This Mac) was added in macOS Sierra (10.12), so if you are running 10.11.6 you may not see it. However, there are other ways you can reduce the storage on your computer. You can find this under the section "How to free up space manually."
(3) Here, after a successful Mac computer partition, create a new Windows partition in free space and set the format to MS-DOS (FAT). (4) In this step, you need to resize the Mac-boot camp partition according to your requirement using the help of Mac disk-utility and give a new name to this partition.
Install the latest macOS that was installed on your Mac. Option-⌘-R. Upgrade to the latest macOS compatible with your Mac. Shift-Option-⌘-R. Install the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available. 2. Decide whether to erase (format) your disk.