Updating takes wrong the free space in HD, not allowing to update
Hi!
In Macbook Air M1, the update from Ventura 13.0.1 to Ventura 13.1 isn't working because require 24GB of free space but I have more than 100GB of free space
MacBook Air 13″
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The Purgeable Space on the drive is not the same as the Empty Space on the Drive.
Purgeable Space may become available in a day or more .
It becomes available as Empty Space when the Operating System decides the space is required.
When that happens - portions of the Purgeable Space can be re-used and reassigned by the Operating System as Empty Space.
The 13.1 update needs to download, Expand and only then commence the installation process.
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