Not enough space to be partitioned?

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Not enough space to be partitioned?

Good morning,

I am trying to setup a Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) with High Sierra (version 10.13.4) with 256 GB HD. The message I get every time I launch Boot Camp assistant is: "The startup disk does not have enough space to be partitioned".

Yesterday I was running the app with 65GB free on the main disk. No way. Today I've reached 120GB of free space, but still the same message. What is the real problem?

Thanks in advance.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017), macOS High Sierra (10.13.4)

Posted on May 9, 2018 7:57 PM

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Answer 1

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Loner T

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May 10, 2018 5:39 AM in response to umoris

Run

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2561-05-10-094539

and repeat for the remaining entries.

Is there a reason to set the year on your Mac to 2561? Can you use NTP (System Preferences -> Date & Time) to sync your Mac's date-time?

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Kappy

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May 9, 2018 8:21 PM in response to umoris

If your SSD is formatted APFS then you cannot use it for Boot Camp. You need to reformat to HFS+. See Can APFS be used with Time Machine, Boot Camp, and File Vault?.

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Loner T

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May 10, 2018 10:02 AM in response to umoris

Can you check if you have local snapshots? Run

sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

in macOS Terminal.

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umoris Author

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May 10, 2018 5:03 AM in response to Loner T

Hi Loner, thanks for the interest.
Here it is:
Last login: Thu May 10 09:20:44 on console

[...]sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

Password:

com.apple.TimeMachine.2561-05-10-094539

com.apple.TimeMachine.2561-05-10-114730

com.apple.TimeMachine.2561-05-10-154555

com.apple.TimeMachine.2561-05-10-174241

com.apple.TimeMachine.2561-05-10-182003

Moriss-MacBook-Pro:~ [...]

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Loner T

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May 10, 2018 9:48 AM in response to umoris

If you are on High Sierra and listlocalsnapshots works, then deletelocalsnapshots should also work. Can you post the terminal command the error message? There may be a typo.

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umoris Author

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May 10, 2018 7:12 AM in response to umoris

Not able to delete, sorry but this is what I have:

[...] sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2561-05-10-094539

deletelocalsnapshots 2561-05-10-094539: Unrecognized verb.

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umoris Author

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May 10, 2018 7:03 AM in response to Loner T

Thanks,
this operation seems to free some space... do you think this is the problem?

About the time issue: I live in Thailand, don't know why it is still the Buddhist calendar (I've already changed to the Gregorian couple of times).

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umoris Author

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May 10, 2018 10:03 AM in response to Loner T

Now it worked, have no idea why not on the previous attempt.

I have 120GB free (9 purgeable) and Boot Camp Assistant is working. Thank you very much.

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Loner T

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May 10, 2018 2:57 PM in response to umoris

Excellent.

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Loner T

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May 10, 2018 3:57 PM in response to umoris

umoris wrote:

About the time issue: I live in Thailand, don't know why it is still the Buddhist calendar (I've already changed to the Gregorian couple of times).

That makes sense.

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