User profile for user: ngartke
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Stop receiving "Your disk is almost full" notification

I'm receiving a "Your disk is almost full" notification, and I'm desperate for a method to turn it off. Every time I close it, it pops back up within 10 seconds. Every time. I'm running with about 3GB of free space on a 128GB hard drive, and I'm fine with that. I've been managing for the past 3 years with 1-5 GB of free space and I have no performance issues. I just want to stop receiving the notification. Anyone know how?

MacBook Pro, macOS Sierra (10.12.1)

Posted on Nov 1, 2016 12:29 PM

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User profile for user: inovakov
inovakov
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Posted on Dec 23, 2017 11:16 AM

All the "do not ignore this warning" are completely useless. It's entirely up to the user to decide how much space they want to have free on their drive. I have 128GB drive, so having very low free disk space is completely normal for me and I'm using my system without any serious performance degradation.


The best answer to that problem that I have found is here: Silencing "Your disk is almost full" notification - Ask Different


TL;DR:

- disable the daemon that generates the warning:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.diskspaced.plist


- lower the limit (to 10 GB in this example):

defaults write com.apple.diskspaced minFreeSpace 10


- kill the daemon:

killall diskspaced

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