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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

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

thank you. got rid of 130 gb!

Amazig48

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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!

jeff161

Level 1

4 points

Sep 5, 2017 7:37 AM in response to Chastings

Thanks, perfect fix!!! Reclaimed 90 GB of purgeable space!

Oct 27, 2017 8:16 AM in response to Chastings

I get "disablelocal: Unrecognized verb" when I try this. tmutil -h does not list disablelocal as an option. I am on MacOS High Sierra.

Purgeable in Disk Utility