n At least some of these purgeable files are documents that have been deleted, but are still around in a snapshot or two. Snapshots are a locked version of an earlier state of the disk, and will get cleared out eventually or when Time Machine completes a backup of the snapshot on the Time Machine disk. If you really want to clean them out you can find incantations on the web to do in the terminal, and I believe that Disk Utility also has a way to clear snapshots. But unless you have less free disk than
On Sep 26, 2025, at 3:23 PM, Brad Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: I'm not sure. Try asking Siri, or do a Google search. - Brad - On Sep 26, 2025, at 14:14, 'Andrew' via MacVisionaries < [email protected]> wrote: Ok, Thanks, Brad, but how do I remove these unnecessary files? They’re obviosly not removed automatically unless there’s a setting that I must enable to do so. Andrew On 26 Sep 2025, at 18:25, Brad Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: When ask, Siri responds as follows: Purgeable refers to a feature that enables a device to automatically free up storage space by removing unnecessary or temporary files. - Brad - On Sep 26, 2025, at 12:19, 'Andrew' via MacVisionaries < [email protected]> wrote: Hi, When I go to Info on my main volume macbook air running latest sequoia, I can see that I have 80.28 GB available and (15.62 GB purgeable). What does “purgeable” mean in this context? It’s a mystery to me. 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