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One thing that drives me nuts for example is the indicator for remaining disk space. I have this icon on my desktop that says "Macintosh HD | 995 GB, 273 GB fre
by vjvjvjvjghv 19d ago
One thing that drives me nuts for example is the indicator for remaining disk space. I have this icon on my desktop that says "Macintosh HD | 995 GB, 273 GB free". This used to work great until a few years ago. Copy 1 GB onto the disk and it displays 1 GB less free disk space.
But since a few years it goes up and down daily by 100 GB or more. Sometimes I have 350 GB, sometimes I have 100 GB. I think it has to do with Time Machine snapshots and purgeable space (whatever that means) but it's totally useless now. I can't tell for sure if I can copy 250 GB to my disk or not. It may fail now but work 2 hours later. How come nobody notices such a fundamental thing not working? Somehow the dogfooding doesn't seem to work. Or maybe the Apple people all have 8 TB disks so they don't care.
- ValentineC 18d agoLooks like this was covered by Eclectic Light: https://eclecticlight.co/2025/02/28/friday-magic-how-to-make-disk-space-unpurgeable/ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/02/28/friday-magic-how-to-make... Yeah, I wonder what's going on within the macOS division, but then again Liquid glAss is a thing.