So, yesterday my MacBook issued an ominous warning: "your harddrive is nearly full." I was shocked because I thought I had plenty of space. Had some software gobbled up my space? The computer went to some dialogue where it suggested (among others) iCloud documents, and informed me I had used 300Gb of my 500Gb. Does that count as nearly full 🙄? Was this an aggressive attempt to push people to iCloud? Or a bug?
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A shill for iCloud documents?
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steve62388
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Sierra now counts purgeable space as free space. It probably was full. Check your trash can.
https://sixcolors.com/post/2016/10/purgeable-storage-sierra/
https://sixcolors.com/post/2016/10/purgeable-storage-sierra/
No, that's not it. Here is what get info reports: "Available: 198.43 GB (18.75 GB purgeable). Used: 300,617,002,092 bytes (300.62 GB on disk)" That doesn't count as "nearly full" in my vocabulary.