why won't my Mac update if I bought enough storage?
My Mac book won't update. It keeps telling me I don't have enough disk space, even though ive backed everything in iCloud and bought 2T of storage
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
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It is telling you that you do not have sufficient storage on your internal startup drive. An operating system update/upgrade has absolutely nothing to do with default or purchased iCloud Storage.
If you are updating further to a minor version of Catalina (10.15.n) you will still need available storage on your startup drive. If upgrading to Big Sur 11.1, you will need a minimum of 35.5 GB of available storage beforehand. Click once on your startup drive on your Desktop (e.g. Macintosh HD), and press option+command+i to bring up the information panel. What does the Available entry show for storage?
You can select the menu > About This Mac > Storage panel, and click Manage… On the Manage panel, select the Review Files button in the Reduce Clutter section. This will provide you a size descending list of files that may help you free up storage, so you can proceed with the update/upgrade process.