![]() I mean, there's people who let their cities on automatic management in Civilization, and there's people who micro-manage every single one of them. When free space isn’t free: Purgeable storage in macOS Sierra Apple recognized this, too, and to its credit, it made this transition one of the main features of macOS Sierra. I don't want Apple or anyone doing these things for me. If I don't want 20gb of Mail files, I will delete them - otherwise, if there is a power shortage, how will I know that I can still access every single email and attachment file that I have? If I don't want cache files, I will delete them myself. How can I have 120gb of disposable files? If the files are on my drive, it's because I want them there. It really bugs me to see 40gb on FreeSpace, and 160gb on Finder. Going for a trip where wifi is terrible? I know which movies I should take with me, and how much space there will be for me to edit my projects on the fly. Final Cut Pro files occupying too much space? I know exactly which projects to delete. Too many movies and series? I know exactly which seasons to delete. That way I always know exactly how much storage each of my files are occupying. I like to know exactly how much space there is on my drive, at all times (I even bought an app for that, FreeSpace, that shows it on the menu bar). Well, it might not make much of a difference to you, but to me it certainly does. Well, since I'm posting screenshots, here goes everything, Disk Utility, About This Mac and Disk Inventory X screenshots: (you can also notice that I have about 123gb of apps, itunes and documents, abnd it seems I have 123gb of purgeable space that I simply don't know what it is). I can't turn off "Optimize Storage" to off in the "Recommendations" folder, because there isn't really an option to, as seen in this screenshot: System Preferences -> iCloud -> set "iCloud Drive" to off.About this mac -> Storage -> Manage -> Recommendations -> set "iCloud Store" to off.I need to know at all times exactly how much free space I have, and that if I delete a 20gb file, it will immediately reflect on my drive.īut it seems it's not so easy to COMPLETELY disable this purgeable space thing. ![]() Typically this stuff is much smaller than data from iCloud however, so you may not see as big of a drop in the size of the purgeable space. I am a drive micro-management type of guy. Reboot MacOS Rebooting the Mac clears out temporary items, tmp files, and many caches, which is stuff that macOS also considers to be purgeable. So, I decided I really don't like having the OS "managing" my space and showing me I have 160GB of free space on finder, just to know that I actually have 40gb of free space.
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