Purgeable in Disk Utility

There is a large section on HDD that states purgeable in Apple, About and in disk utilities. It's available space but how do you purge or see what's there?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)

Posted on Sep 21, 2016 10:06 AM

23 replies

Oct 24, 2016 9:42 PM in response to Chastings

Thanks Chastings.. I did what you stated in your post and my purgeable space was reduced to almost negligible.

Dec 2, 2016 12:03 PM in response to Chastings

Super helpful. Worked perfectly. I have a feeling this answer is going to help others.

Jan 4, 2017 5:49 AM in response to Chastings

thank you. got rid of 130 gb!

Amazig48

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8 points

Feb 9, 2017 12:02 PM in response to Chastings

Thank You!🙂

Mar 13, 2017 3:13 AM in response to BB623

Thanks , released 10 gb from my drive !

Mar 19, 2017 12:08 AM in response to Chastings

Thanks Chastings, really useful tips.

Apr 5, 2017 11:58 AM in response to Teddy_B

So does this mean that I, as the user and owner of the hard drive with the purgeable files, can not purge those files as is usually possible when that term is used?

Apr 28, 2017 7:02 PM in response to Chastings

Thanks!

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Purgeable in Disk Utility