Stop receiving "Your disk is almost full" notification

Drives me insane, too. Apple has always had the tendency to assume the user doesn't understand the risks and consequences of doing things it doesn't like, which is absurd to me. Get out of my way and let me hang myself if I want to. Anyway... I found something that may help, though I'm still testing it out to see if the change sticks.

Note to anyone who stumbles across this: DO NOT DO THIS. YOU WILL KILL ALL THE PUPPIES. If you actually understand what I'm describing below and realize that tweaking internal system settings can result in HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPENING, well, you'll understand why I added this note. DON'T DO IT. (Or, ya know, whatever.)

Take a look at the output from `defaults export com.apple.ncprefs - | grep -2 diskspaced` -- com.apple.diskspaced is part of the StorageManagement framework, and can be found at /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/StorageManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resourc es/diskspaced.

I tried toggling notifications for one of my apps and watching the flags value for it, but (seriously) after changing notification settings then changing back, the flags value is not the same. So, I have no idea if changing the flags value will actually result in no more notifications, this is wildly outside normal documented stuff to dig into, but hey, if you're up for doing things that will upset half the people who replied to this thread... 🙂

I set my com.apple.diskspaced flags to 4117, based on values I found for other disabled apps. This is probably entirely wrong, but worst case scenario it just doesn't stop notifying. Kinda hard to imagine notification center not gracefully handling an unexpected value here, seeing as how that's Developer 101.

Good luck!

Thanks for your post. For reference, I used the http://www.tempel.org/PrefsEditor to actually change the value. From what I can tell you add 4096 to the value there and save.

ngartke wrote:

Not looking to argue. I'm just looking for an answer to a specific question, namely, is it possible to turn off notifications without freeing up HD space.

It is not.

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

Not likely. Ever. It is an important message trying to tell you that your hard drive needs some space.

Good luck ignoring it.

And thank you kind sir for the good luck :-)

We are not Apple, just users who volunteered to help other users, but now this user will stop.

Good luck to you.

Just remember that OS X can generate temporary files of sizes up to 10GB while running, leave enough room for them otherwise performance suffers.

Yes, I'm aware of temp files. As I said, I had over 600 gigabytes free when this happened, and I'm talking about actual free space. I checked.

Editing the preferences for diskspaced doesn't actually work. =(

No, it clearly is intended

Photos has always had the 3 choices it currently has

1 All Photos

2 All Photos but smaller

3 No Photos.

It never allowed you to manage it any other way

What do you want me to tell you, your drive is too full, ignore it or change it, those are the available choices.

Do you have anything that supports this assertion.

SSDs have very big resource (about several TB per good 128GB disks)

You are not addressing Apple; we are all other users just like you.