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Q: I can't partition my SDD because of the "purgeable" space

I want to use Boot Camp to install Windows 10 so I can run Revit and other Autodesk products. I have  can't partition my SDD because of the "purgeable" space on my SDD. I have an 250GB SDD that only had ~10GB free.

 

I've spent the majority of the day moving data from my SDD to an external drive and deleting those transferred files from Mac (yes I've emptied the trashcan).

 

I've used the new storage management feature in OS X Sierra to find and locate lots of large files (like 6 large - and old - iPhone backups weighing in between 3 and 9GBs etc). And app/software I no longer use/need.

 

My SDD says there's now 140GB available, of that ~92GB is purgeable. I can't seem to get the actual 'free' space Boot Camp needs to partition >50GB (it's stuck at 48GB). I deleted 8GB of videos and it just increased the overall space and the purgeable space, but not the free space. This is pretty frustrating. What else can I do???

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 26, 2016 2:55 AM

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