There are apps like cleanmymac3 which offer to clean purgeable space on your machine (for a fee) but I wanted to find a way to reclaim this space without the need for a paid service. There has to be a way to reclaim purgeable space from the OS, right? How to Free Purgeable Space This prevented me from being able to pull in as many GB in to my Windows partition as I needed.Įven though I haven’t experienced it, I have also heard of folks running in to issues installing games or downloading large files onto their machines, and hitting the purgeable space wall. I had over 40GB of my hard drive confined to purgeable space, and even though that storage counts as “free” from an OSX perspective, it is still technically allocated. I ran in to issues with purgeable space when trying to partition my hard drive for a Windows installation. In my opinion, it’s a bit of a silly assumption on behalf of the OS to keep files around that the user is asking to send to remote storage. Presumably, you are sending files to the cloud to free up space on your local machine… if there is space available locally on disk, though, OSX will keep these files around in purgeable space which speeds up accessing the files again from your local machine. It is storage on your hard drive that the operating system sets aside for files that it thinks you might access again in the future.Īn example of files that are moved to purgeable space is files that you send to your remote iCloud storage. Purgeable Disk Space is a “feature” of more recent versions of OSX. Link to step by step instructions at the end of this post for reclaiming purgeable space on your mac. However, all these support files are still there occupying GBs of size.TIL about Purgeable Disk Space in OSX, and after hours of struggling, how to reclaim it. In our case, we have deleted many apps like Edge, Firefox, Local (this is an app for WordPress development), Brackets (code editor app) and. You will be surprised to see folders of deleted applications are still available occupying large space. Delete Uninstalled Application Support FoldersĪfter deleting caches, next thing you should look into is the “Application Support” folder. Learn more about how to cleanup different types of caches in Mac.
You can find another “Caches” folder there and delete the files insider each folder. Press “Shift + Command + G”, type /Library/ in the box and press “Go” button. There is also another /Library/ folder that you can access from finder. Therefore, make sure to unhide the hidden files, if you are trying to check the files from Folder app. This folder is default hidden in Mac when trying to view in Finder.
Note that the “Caches” you see here are under ~ /Library/ folder.
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