Stop receiving "Your disk is almost full" notification

I felt exactly like the OP. The commentary here made me face the truth, especially the words of one poster: “ Eventually you can lose data or get into an unbootable state” 😳

okay! Im convinvinced. But still annoyed. Im doing my best to make room, seems impossible now. My external harddrives keep breaking on me, ugh. I so need a desk top.

I will say this: hey Apple, make it possible for me to send things up to the cloud/recompress them once ive downloaded them from the cloud/opened them. I DO NOT WANT/NEED STUFF STORED LOCALLY; this is a large part of why I’m payimg for extra cloud storag— to store stuff “up there”, but still these local copies seem to exist and i dont know when or how apple decides to recompress them, but i wish we could just do it and/or not have local copies of certain things at all (There are things I’d like to keep and access but could risk losing and/or wouldn’t mind not having instant access to if that were the price (and others which are important enough that I need extra security). Sigh. Just a constant hassle.

PS: is it bad to “bump” this old thread (if so, why? This had the info on it I needed and I haven’t found anything better)? Sorry if so 🏻♀

Still a problem years later. Apple's preferred answer is infuriating in part because they are not purely worried, they are also trying to upsell cloud storage. The constant notification is more like a ransom note

Thanks ngartke for asking this very important question. It's been so frustrating with MacOS Sierra's notification. I mean for someone who has been managing his hard disk drive for over 2 years between 3GB to 5GB. I can see the implication of running low on disk drive and very fine with mine but gosh how to turn this off so I stop getting the notifications. I can't believe it's so hard to find how to. Please if you've found a way, let me know. And I had the warning intuition not to turn on iCloud storage optimization for since being with apple from 2008, they have never been the best with anything connected with internet services. Anyway paying the price :-D. Next time will just leave it alone. I've turned off "store in the cloud, and reduce clutter" recommendations but don't know how to turn off optimize storage and empty trash automatically. You know, these are the areas I see why people are so mad with apple but hey i'll take these caveats over the so many other problems I get when running Windows.

Anyway I hope there's a way to turn this off or maybe in a new update.

Thanks mate.

SS drives show (in SMART) how much bytes you have written. And you can check this by using ssd-z in Windows. In macos I can't remember one but I think it is not a problem to find one. For that moment I can't give my own ssds data as it has been used very few for writing. But you can find a lot of disks with unfinished resource and about 10-20 TB written. For example

Trim work in Samsung and Toshiba drives (last ssds I've seen in Mac computers were based on those controllers) very well and in Sandforce Intel's drives also.

BobSaggy wrote:

Lets hope a future updates gives us the option to turn it off.

I have to agree with babowa, OS X always had this notification – that's about 16 years of progress and Apple still see it as important.

Notify Apple, if enough people complain maybe a developer will look into it & decide if an option to disable it is a good idea (considering how modern SSD storage behaves) but I doubt that will happen as it can lead to data loss in some circumstances.

https://ssl.apple.com/feedback/

Has anybody had any success with malkowski's earlier 'plist hack' suggestion? klopyrev did it ever work for you? Hacking system files is ill-advised but you guys appear to like living on the edge anyway…

Onyx makes no sense to free up space: it deletes caches content, but caches are refilled very fast.

Hear Hear !!

very well said.

I receive "Your disk is almost full" notification while I have 30 gb free space. Please help!!!

Please post how to enable the warning and set the limit. I’d love to know how to make it an app

He never said he has a SSD

If you’re telling us technical issues, then please use statistics and tell us the average lifespans per drive capacities and models.

Show us your research

You go first. Show us yours.

"He never said he has a SSD"

He has a 128GB Apple SSD with Trim on.

How do you help the OP?

I just realized that I hit the wrong reply button in my last post...... The post should have been addressed to Ajaba.

Hi Babowa, "what me worry", you have always good posts , does not matter if they are correctly addressed or not: they contribute (not from München, but close this time).

Lex

Wrong John. This warning can be safely ignored when it's coming up and you have over 10GB of free space. That is more than enough free space for OSX.