Fitzyfromiowa

Q: Purgeble items??

I ran First Aid before and after installing Sierra. I had/have no problems with it. But after rebooting to run First Aid the second time under Memory is says 413.4 MB Purgeble. What am I supposed to purge??  I ran etrecheck, which says my system is excellent. Firestorm crashed because I didn't close it properly. I am not a techie and don't know what to purge or if i should mess with it. I have plenty of memory left.

EtreCheck version: 3.0.6 (315)

Report generated 2016-09-30 18:53:01

Download EtreCheck from https://etrecheck.com

Runtime 1:55

Performance: Excellent

 

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Problem: Other problem

 

Hardware Information:

    iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)

    [Technical Specifications] - [User Guide] - [Warranty & Service]

    iMac - model: iMac14,3

    1 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU: 4-core

    8 GB RAM Upgradeable - [Instructions]

        BANK 0/DIMM0

            4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

        BANK 1/DIMM0

            4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz ok

    Bluetooth: Good - Handoff/Airdrop2 supported

    Wireless: Unknown

Video Information:

    NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M - VRAM: 1024 MB

        iMac 1920 x 1080

 

System Software:

    macOS Sierra  10.12 (16A323) - Time since boot: less than an hour

 

Disk Information:

    APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 disk0 : (1 TB) (Rotational)

        EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB

        Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted>  [Recovery]: 650 MB

        Macintosh HD (disk1) /  [Startup]: 999.03 GB (974.45 GB free)

            Core Storage: disk0s2 999.35 GB Online

 

USB Information:

    Apple Inc. BRCM20702 Hub

        Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller

    Apple Inc. FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)

    Apple, Inc. Keyboard Hub

        Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard

    Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse

 

Thunderbolt Information:

    Apple Inc. thunderbolt_bus

 

Gatekeeper:

    Mac App Store and identified developers

 

System Launch Agents:

    [not loaded]    6 Apple tasks

    [loaded]    178 Apple tasks

    [running]    87 Apple tasks

 

System Launch Daemons:

    [not loaded]    42 Apple tasks

    [loaded]    165 Apple tasks

    [running]    96 Apple tasks

 

Launch Agents:

    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.agent.plist (2016-07-12) [Support]

 

Launch Daemons:

    [loaded]    com.google.keystone.daemon.plist (2016-09-02) [Support]

 

User Login Items:

    iTunesHelper    Application  (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

 

Internet Plug-ins:

    QuickTime Plugin: 7.7.3 (2016-09-13)

 

3rd Party Preference Panes:

    None

 

Time Machine:

    Time Machine not configured!

 

Top Processes by CPU:

         4%    WindowServer

         2%    fontd

         1%    hidd

         0%    kernel_task

         0%    com.apple.AmbientDisplayAgent

 

Top Processes by Memory:

    581 MB    kernel_task

    139 MB    Finder

    123 MB    mdworker(11)

    123 MB    mds_stores

    98 MB    WindowServer

 

Virtual Memory Information:

    4.78 GB    Free RAM

    3.22 GB    Used RAM (1.63 GB Cached)

    0 B    Swap Used

 

Diagnostics Information:

    Sep 30, 2016, 06:39:38 PM    Self test - passed

    Sep 30, 2016, 06:17:50 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-30-181750_[redacted].crash

        /Applications/FirestormOS-Releasex64.app/Contents/Resources/SLPlugin.app/Conten ts/MacOS/SLPlugin

    Sep 30, 2016, 06:17:47 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Firestorm_2016-09-30-181747_[redacted].crash

        com.phoenixviewer.firestorm.viewer-oss - /Applications/FirestormOS-Releasex64.app/Contents/MacOS/Firestorm

    Sep 30, 2016, 05:25:03 PM    /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Firestorm_2016-09-30-172503_[redacted].cpu_reso urce.diag [Details]

    Sep 29, 2016, 06:26:05 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Firestorm_2016-09-29-182605_[redacted].crash

    Sep 29, 2016, 06:25:59 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-29-182559_[redacted].crash

    Sep 29, 2016, 04:38:13 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-29-163813_[redacted].crash

    Sep 29, 2016, 03:09:49 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-29-150949_[redacted].crash

    Sep 28, 2016, 06:55:22 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-28-185522_[redacted].crash

    Sep 28, 2016, 03:44:17 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-28-154417_[redacted].crash

    Sep 28, 2016, 10:13:01 AM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-28-101301_[redacted].crash

    Sep 27, 2016, 07:35:39 PM    ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/SLPlugin_2016-09-27-193539_[redacted].crash

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013)

Posted on Sep 30, 2016 5:16 PM

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Q: Purgeble items??

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  • by trevoz,Solvedanswer

    trevoz trevoz Sep 30, 2016 5:33 PM in response to Fitzyfromiowa
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    Mac OS X
    Sep 30, 2016 5:33 PM in response to Fitzyfromiowa

    In macOS Sierra, “Purgeable” content appears when you've turned on Optimize Mac Storage. It's storage space that your Mac can automatically make available when storage space is needed. Files marked as purgeable can always be downloaded again on demand.

  • by Fitzyfromiowa,

    Fitzyfromiowa Fitzyfromiowa Sep 30, 2016 5:34 PM in response to trevoz
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    Mac OS X
    Sep 30, 2016 5:34 PM in response to trevoz

    Thanks so much!

  • by Chastings,Helpful

    Chastings Chastings Oct 1, 2016 9:43 AM in response to trevoz
    Level 1 (57 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 1, 2016 9:43 AM in response to trevoz

    "Purgeable" content is very confusing.  I spoke with Apple because my Mac is showing purgeable content even though I do not have "Optimize Mac Storage" enabled.  The engineer tried to be helpful but because Sierra is new to everyone (including the engineers) I am not completely confident with the explanation which was:

     

    "Purgeable" replaces "other" regardless of the "Optimize Mac Storage" setting.  Purgeable content should only be purged if you have "Optimize Mac Storage" enabled but will show in either case.

     

    Like Apple products, very frustrated by the Storage Optimization UI in Sierra.  Hopefully patches improve the situation.

  • by Fitzyfromiowa,

    Fitzyfromiowa Fitzyfromiowa Oct 1, 2016 9:42 AM in response to Chastings
    Level 1 (5 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 1, 2016 9:42 AM in response to Chastings

    Thank you for the added comment. The other odd thing was I checked for updates and it showed 3: Notes, Numbers, and Pages needed to be updated but next to each one was (beta). I did not download Sierra beta. I waited until the release. I'm unconcerned as I don't use those apps but it didn't make sense. I'm not a techie. I'm just someone who wants to be able to have updates without all the confusion so that I can enjoy my computer!

  • by Chastings,

    Chastings Chastings Oct 1, 2016 12:35 PM in response to Chastings
    Level 1 (57 points)
    Mac OS X
    Oct 1, 2016 12:35 PM in response to Chastings

    I found another piece to the puzzle...Time Machine.  Sierra keeps TM backups local until they get backed to Time Machine.  This backup content is included in "Purgeable". 

     

    I found this by turning off Time Machine which purges local backups.  Once I did this the 14.5GB of Purgeable content went to 0GB. 

     

    Hope this helps.


    Curt