After studying thousand of log entries in less than 2 seconds, this is how macOS updates its values for purgeable and available space. But who uses them?
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Free that space before macOS has to purge it for you. Using housekeeping, moving Documents and media libraries, but not relocating Home folders.
hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 200. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]
Deleting two large files from a volume triggered the updating of figures for purgeable and available space within 9 seconds. Yet 6 minutes later, the Finder didn’t show those updated figures.
One volume has 60 GB of purgeable space, giving 295 GB available; the other has only 15 GB purgeable, so 250 GB available. How can they be in the same container?
Almost four years ago, on 29 June 2019, I posted my first Saturday Mac Riddles. To mark their […]
Save space on your storage and backups by removing all copies. But does it work if they’re APFS clone files? And does that housekeeping utility detect clones for you?
A simple task: deauthorise an M1 Mac mini to hand on, then use EACAS to wipe it ready for its next user. But deauthorisation wouldn’t work.
Where are all those purgeable files? Two updated utilities to help you find them: Precize and Sparsity, which will crawl folders checking which files are purgeable, sparse or clones.
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