Boot Camp says I don't have space to install, though I do.

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Boot Camp says I don't have space to install, though I do.

I am trying to reinstall a boot camp partition. I deleted the old one through boot camp and am using boot camp again to reinstall, but it says there is not enough free space to install the partition in. When I check my storage under Apple>About this Mac>Storage, it says I have 152 GB available. When I check in Disk Utility, I have ~76 GB free in the bar, but 150 below, with 73 'purgable'. The hard drive is a 240GB SSD from OWC.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS High Sierra (10.13.6)

Posted on Sep 2, 2018 5:27 PM

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Answer 1

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Loner T

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Sep 2, 2018 7:51 PM in response to 929203

Run

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2018-08-31-173632

and repeat for the remainder of the list. Once completed, re-run

sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

and verify that there are no new ones and then retry BC Assistant.

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Loner T

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Sep 2, 2018 6:12 PM in response to 929203

Since you are on High Sierra, you may have local snapshots. Post the output of

sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

Notice the trailing space and the "/".

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Sep 2, 2018 6:22 PM in response to Loner T

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-08-31-173632

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-120111

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-140251

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-153153

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-171310

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-180820

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-191029

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-200925

com.apple.TimeMachine.2018-09-02-210936

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Boot Camp says I don't have space to install, though I do.

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