![]() If you have "Store in iCloud" set up, you need to give it time to work, whilst you do this. You need to either manually shrink local Time Machine backups, or incrementally fill the drive with junk data then erase it. Purgeable data will not just get out of the way if you need the space all in one go. ![]() That is the amount of actual free space you have, including purgeable. If your drive is so full that you are struggling to squeeze something on - which in itself is not a good thing, you really need to keep 10 - 20% free space, ironically more for a smaller drive - then the figure you need to be looking at is the one in Disk Utility, under the blue bar. If you look at the three basic ways to see how much space is left on your drive, one thing you'll notice is they don't actually agree on their definition of "free" space. The byte count may be the same, but the space used on disk would not. You'd see the same thing if you wrote a 1GB movie file & 1GB of small text files to a drive. ![]() ![]() I don't think there is a definitive answer, because it's likely to depend on the specific Mac & how the data aligns to sector sizes when written. ![]()
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