I cannot figure out what happened to the other 121GB of space that should have been freed up. After doing that, I gained about 10GB of hard drive space. I’m running High Sierra (want to upgrade, which is why I’m trying to free up space) on a 1TB drive in a 2017 MBP:Īs I initially said, I had deleted 131GB of movies and home movies from iTunes - copied them from my internal drive to an external, deleted the movies from within iTunes, and emptied the Trash. Let me run through what I’ve done - this is a bit long. It’s taken me a bit to get back to this thread, partly from time constraints and partly from working through your suggestions. What am I missing that I should be doing? It appears that something must be writing files back to my hard drive or Trash isn’t actually cleaning out files. I should have 150-200GB of free space on my drive, but it’s stuck at a much smaller amount. I have logged out and logged back in, I have rebooted multiple times, I used CleanMyMac to try to clear out iTunes junk. This morning, the Finder is showing 8.43GB of free space. I ran Clean My Mac to clean out “Junk Files” and then CleanMyMac/Maintenance/Free Up Purgeable Space and ended up with only 7.09GB of free space. I started with only 6.99GB of free space on my hard drive after emptying the Trash, I only had 7.73GB of free space. Yesterday, I copied 4.72GB of movies to an external drive, then deleted them from iTunes. Later, I copied 126.45GB of “home movie” files to the external drive, deleted and trashed those movies from within iTunes, emptied the trash and it made absolutely no difference in the amount of free space on my internal drive. I copied 27.45GB of document files onto an external drive, did a random check to make sure they copied correctly, then deleted those files from my laptop. Last weekend, I decided to work really hard to get this done. At one point, CleanMyMac said it was clearing out 25+ GB of stuff and I ended up with less free drive space than before. I was doing some of that manually, but then had a chance to install CleanMyMac with our church’s 5-station license. Over the last few weeks, I’ve worked to move files to an external drive, to get rid of files, to delete 32-bit apps. At any rate, I know that I need to have at least 35GB of free space on my drive and I really want more. I don’t think I have ever been this far behind on upgrading. I have put off upgrading from High Sierra for long enough. I’ve used Macs for a long time (Apple IIs before that) and don’t recall having this problem … ever.
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