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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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Solarfish
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Posted on Jan 29, 2018 2:58 PM

I found you can change the threshold for the warning with a terminal command. Open a new terminal window and type the following command. The integer at the end is the minimum number of free GB before it will warn you about low space, so 10 GB here, set it to whatever you want.


defaults write com.apple.diskspaced minFreeSpace 10


Then run these two commands to reload the daemon (or just restart your mac)


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


You can also completely disable the warning with this command


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


Hope this works for you it fixed the issue for me 🙂


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