As far as "purgeable space" goes, my internal is reporting purgeable space and I'm still running Sierra, so, not a new Mojave thing. Apparently, purgeable means data for which there is a copy in the cloud <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202867> so if you have have to temporarily abandon it, you can always load it back. 60GB is pretty significant, but maybe you keep your whole photo library in iCloud.
Be cognizant of running into a related behavior that a member of the AMUG mailing list outlined about a week ago. He found Mojave hoarding storage in "snapshots" that had not expired or been deleted. I think in his case it was connected with the use of Carbon Copy Cloner. Doing whatever it is one does to remove snapshots got his storage back. > On Jan 26, 2019, at 2:39 AM, Chris Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all: > > Just upgraded to Mojave and a 1Tb SSD on a new machine and see Disk Utility > tells me I have some 60Gb of ‘purgeable’ disk space, probably because I’ve > been adding and deleting files as I move stuff across from the old machine. > > Not noticed the concept of' purgeable space' on previous drives but that may > just be me. > > Can someone tell me: > > a: What it is, > > b: Are there any utilities that will clean it up for me? I notice one called > Mac Cleaner but there’s several of these about that are effectively Malware, > so I don’t want to download a heap of trouble. > > Thanks for any help. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
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