I have a Mac Tahoe and after loading about 120 gigabytes of video, my Mac won’t get passed the loading bar. I tried to redownload the Mac OS but it says I need 13 more gigabytes. I can’t get into the computer to delete anything but also I share the computer with another user who has all her files on it. Am I cooked?? I’m desperate pls help
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Original Title: Can’t Download updates
MacBook Pro (M4)
Keep in mind the 20GB of Free storage space mentioned by @neuroanatomist is referring to what is necessary just to boot macOS & perform the most basic tasks. Plus you need to ignore the "Available" storage value shown everywhere within macOS because it is very misleading. You need to look at the actual Free storage space value which unfortunately is only shown in Disk Utility or the System Profiler. With macOS "Available" is not synonymous with Free.
Plus for upgrading macOS to a new major version of macOS, you need a lot more Free storage space. In addition to the 20GB minimum of Free space, you need another 17GB just for the Tahoe installer. Then you need at least another 17GB because the installer needs to remove & expand the files contained within the installer app. That means you need at least 54GB of Free storage space before you start the install process. Hopefully you have even more Free space than that when performing the upgrade.
FYI, bad things will happen if you completely run out of Free storage space. With the APF file system it may be impossible to even delete any files to make more room due to how the APFS file system works.
Not much you can do if the other user has a ton of data they don't wish to relocate.
Besides, there is no immediate need to upgrade to Tahoe if you are currently running Sequoia.
If it’s locked up, do a hard shutdown – press and hold the power button (Touch ID sensor) for ~10 seconds. Wait a few seconds then press any key to boot up.
Log in and transfer/delete files. You should always keep an absolute minimum of 20 GB of your internal storage and ideally ~20% of the drive’s capacity as free space.
Unable to download mac Tahoe updates after 120GB video load
