How much space do i have left

[thewall]

Today i had a message informing me i was running out of space, i knew what was taking up a lot of space so that is now deleted, i have looked at disk utility and it say's i have 178 free and 327 available what space do i have.

 

[casperes1996]

As it says, "Available" Is free+purgeable.

The space you actually have free is the amount labeled "free". Purgeable space is things like documents stored in iCloud that the OS could get back on demand. They're currently stored on your computer, so is taking up space, but it is "purgeable" in the sense that it doesn't necessarily NEED to be stored on your computer

 

[thewall]

Thanks i have a cloud storage which is at 100gb is that what you mean "purgeable"
Is there a way i can find out what is purgeable
I'm fairly new to this so not to tech please
Also can i find out what is using up the space.

 

[casperes1996]

Thanks i have a cloud storage which is at 100gb is that what you mean "purgeable"
Is there a way i can find out what is purgeable
I'm fairly new to this so not to tech please
Also can i find out what is using up the space.

Unfortunately, to my knowledge, there's no easy way to get an overview of what is considered purgeable. If the cloud space you mention is iCloud it could be, but if it's another provider it's unlikely to be counted as purgeable.

Most often, purgeable references APFS snapshots, iCloud data, Apple Music storage, iCloud Photos/videos and the like.
For the APFS snapshots you can run
tmutil listlocalsnapshots /
and
diskutil ap snapshots /

to check for TimeMachine local snapshots and volume snapshots respectively

 

[thewall]

Thanks i have BT Cloud which comes with my broadband provider and when i click on "get info" in finder it tells me it is using 100gb of space, i'm new to this cloud and how they work i thought you put files in there to release space but all the files i have put in are taking up space do you think i have to sync the files then i can delete them from the folder.

 

[casperes1996]

Thanks i have BT Cloud which comes with my broadband provider and when i click on "get info" in finder it tells me it is using 100gb of space, i'm new to this cloud and how they work i thought you put files in there to release space but all the files i have put in are taking up space do you think i have to sync the files then i can delete them from the folder.

So if you "Get Info" in Finder on an item that is purgeable space it will say that in the Get Info window. Thus if it just says 100GB used it doesn't seem to count towards the purgeable.

I have no idea about BT's cloud offering's. I can tell you however how it works with iCloud Drive and Google Drive.

Here's a file which is stored in my iCloud. It's an audio file I made but that's not so important.
See the little cloud icon with an arrow in it? That indicates that the file is currently stored *only* in iCloud and not on my local machine. If I right click/option click on it, I have this option

Once clicked, the file exists both on my computer, *and* iCloud and the little cloud icon goes away.

If I delete the file it will be removed from *both* my computer *and* iCloud. However, if I again right click/option click, the menu now has this option

Which will remove it only from my computer and keep it in iCloud.

On Google Drive the process is much the same though things may be named slightly differently. Options are also in the right click menu but further down in the menu, with Google Drive icons next to them (at least last I used it).

I can't say it's the same for BT, but you can try and check if the behaviour is the same.