error deleting free space partition

Hi there, so I have been having a really big problem and I have spent the past 3 hours watching YouTube videos and going on Reddit but I couldn’t find anything and I would be so grateful if someone could help me. So a while back I downloaded windows on my Mac and I made a patrician and everything and it was all great and working well. I no longer needed windows so I decided to delete the partician so I go into boot camp and I press continue and then restore so I can have my storage back. While it is restoring I get an error and then a message that tells me the restoration was not successful or something like that. I then go to disk utility and I try to delete the patrician from there. It turns out that the patrician is now called free space and when I try to delete it I keep getting error after error. I have tried deleting in disk Utility after restarting with cmd-R but it still gives the same error. I have firevault turned off so that is not a problem either. I also tried doing the command in the terminal but that doesn’t work either. I would be so great full if someone could help me.

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Posted on Jul 29, 2019 10:23 PM

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Posted on Jul 30, 2019 7:29 AM

thank you so much for trying to help me. I was trying to continue to fix this problem and I know it sounds really funny, but I was trying to do first aid through disk utility and it told me to do the first aid in disk recovery mode. I go on to do first aid in disk recovery mode and it turns out to be successful. I then remove the free space in disk recovery mode and I restart my Mac. when I get back I check and the free space partician has been removed. thank you for all your help.

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Jul 30, 2019 7:29 AM in response to AdiFragz

thank you so much for trying to help me. I was trying to continue to fix this problem and I know it sounds really funny, but I was trying to do first aid through disk utility and it told me to do the first aid in disk recovery mode. I go on to do first aid in disk recovery mode and it turns out to be successful. I then remove the free space in disk recovery mode and I restart my Mac. when I get back I check and the free space partician has been removed. thank you for all your help.

Jul 30, 2019 6:30 AM in response to Loner T

Adis-MacBook-Pro:~ adihapurne$ diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0


   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         79.0 GB    disk0s2




/dev/disk1 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +79.0 GB    disk1


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            57.2 GB    disk1s1


   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 45.8 MB    disk1s2


   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                509.8 MB   disk1s3


   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4




Adis-MacBook-Pro:~ adihapurne$ 

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