Re: Purgeable Disk Space

From	RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: Purgeable Disk Space
Date	2025-01-23 14:35 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 11 Jan 2025 at 08:06:35 GMT, RJH wrote:

> Reading from Disk Utility, the 500GB SSD (Apple SSD/Container disk1/Macintosh
> HD) on my 2020 Intel iMac is showing 25GB available, 470GB used.
> 
> In the Macintosh directory below is a volume (or partition?) called 'Macintosh
> HD - Data' which is showing 500GB capacity, 170GB available, 140GB purgeable,
> 460GB used.
> 
> How do I 'purge' the 140GB?
> 
> I've tried restarting, and searching using Finder shows only the files I'd
> expect over 1GB - apps and video files. The only odd thing in
> Settings/General/Storage is something called System Data at 135GB, but I don't
> know what/where that is.

Update: the Purgeable Space has changed to System Data, as reported in Disk
Utility - currently 160GB. This happened sometime between my original post,
and warnings yesterday about running out of disk space, <10GB.

60GB of this space is in a folder called 'Metadata', but I've still no idea
where the other 100GB is hiding. Disk Inventory X gives no clue. Tried
rebuilding Spotlight but no significant change.

Something seems to be broken. I'll see if the system will limp on for the next
couple of weeks, when I'll start the transition to a new Mini.

-- 
Cheers, Rob, Sheffield UK

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Purgeable Disk Space RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-01-11 08:06 +0000
  Re: Purgeable Disk Space John Hill <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-01-11 08:41 +0000
    Re: Purgeable Disk Space Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-01-11 09:13 +0000
    Re: Purgeable Disk Space RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-01-11 11:50 +0000
  Re: Purgeable Disk Space Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-01-11 10:15 +0000
    Re: Purgeable Disk Space RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-01-11 11:51 +0000
  Re: Purgeable Disk Space RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2025-01-23 14:35 +0000

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