Presumably, you are sending files to the cloud to free up space on your local machine… if there is space available locally on disk, though, OSX will keep these files around in purgeable space which speeds up accessing the files again from your local machine. It is storage on your hard drive that the operating system sets aside for files that it thinks you might access again in the future.Īn example of files that are moved to purgeable space is files that you send to your remote iCloud storage. Purgeable Disk Space is a “feature” of more recent versions of OSX. Link to step by step instructions at the end of this post for reclaiming purgeable space on your mac. TIL about Purgeable Disk Space in OSX, and after hours of struggling, how to reclaim it.
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