Possible fix for 'endless calculating' and storage total way off

[brinkeguthrie]

2024 M3 MBA, Sequoia 15.3.1.

So I look at Launchpad and I notice the Siri icon had changed. Now it's orange and turquoise. I checked, and golly be, Apple Intelligence was turned on.

I most certainly did not enable it.

Then I looked at the storage amount- 90GB. Which is pretty much what it was before all this started. And oh look- system calculating totaled and stopped.

So I turned OFF Apple Intelligence- and guess what. Yep. Storage had dropped back to 25GB or so, (I have 31GB of music alone) and system data was back to endless calculation.

So I turned Apple Intel back on- and, give it just minute or two, and back to 90GB, and calculating stops cold.

I think this is the culprit.

Now if I can get that Siri window top right corner to stop showing up, and we're set.

 

[Sciuriware]

2024 M3 MBA, Sequoia 15.3.1.

So I look at Launchpad and I notice the Siri icon had changed. Now it's orange and turquoise. I checked, and golly be, Apple Intelligence was turned on.

I most certainly did not enable it.

Then I looked at the storage amount- 90GB. Which is pretty much what it was before all this started. And oh look- system calculating totaled and stopped.

So I turned OFF Apple Intelligence- and guess what. Yep. Storage had dropped back to 25GB or so, (I have 31GB of music alone) and system data was back to endless calculation.

So I turned Apple Intel back on- and, give it just minute or two, and back to 90GB, and calculating stops cold.

I think this is the culprit.

Now if I can get that Siri window top right corner to stop showing up, and we're set.

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[nmt1900]

I enabled Apple Intelligence and yes... System Data calculation result finallly appeared. I just waited for a while because it changed after that for some time as Image Playground and other stuff was downloading.

After that ended I disabled Apple Intelligence and System Data is still able to calculate itself. Let's see if this will be "permanent"...

P. S. There seems to be one trick to avoid Apple Intelligence from being turned on - Siri language has to be set different from system language (i.e. English US vs English UK)

 

[nmt1900]

Well was too fast on that as system data calculating got screwed again and purgeable data amount jumped up by same amount which was under system data - so both system data and purgeable storage space are both wrong when Apple Intelligence is disabled.

Difference in reported available space between Finder and Path Finder (which shows the same as df -h) is now bigger than ever.

It looks like only way out is to wait for 15.4 (?)