purgeable space

KatDeB wrote:

my macbook pro has 153 GB of "purgeable space". the Disk Utility User Guide says:

"Amount of space available, which can include both free space and

“purgeable space”—or space that macOS can free up when needed by

removing files from your computer. You can’t manually remove the files

that are designated purgeable, but macOS removes them as space is

required."

does this mean i cannot free up this space manually? do i need to max out my drive to 500 GB to get rid of the files in the purgeable space?

thanks.

What issue are you having?

I have never had to micro-manage purgeable space...

Plugging in Time machine will clear localsnapshots.

See if there is anything here: Get detailed information about a disk in Disk Utility on Mac