Can't install SD3 – SDX installer says not enough space

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  • destructo_1
    Participant

    the more I deinstall the less space is available?! Mac 10.14.1

    Olof Hermansson
    Moderator

    If you do “Get Info” on the disk in Finder, does it say that any of the available space is “purgeable”? How much?

    Is it your internal (system) disk or an external? If it’s an external, please check “Get Info” for the internal too – how much available and how much purgeable space does the internal disk have?

    Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
    Coder

    destructo_1
    Participant

    It’s an internal ssd disk 500GB (Macbook pro). It now says 99GB available.

    destructo_1
    Participant

    and this is what the sdx installer shows: only 35.5GB available

    Olof Hermansson
    Moderator
    BEST ANSWER

    Okay, yes, 61 GB “löschbar” is purgeable space, so it’s not really free. A future version of the installer will be able to handle it better, but now you’ll need to decrease the purgeable space before installing.

    There is no easy way to do that, except maybe with some 3rd-party program, but it can be done by (almost) filling up the disk with large files that you then delete. When you have added 35 GB of such “dummy files,” the purgeable space will begin to go down when you add more files. Let’s say you add 115 GB of files (so you have 5 GB available) and then delete them, you will have at least 115 GB truly free space, and then you can install the library.

    To add such files, it unfortunately does not work to duplicate files in Finder (assuming the disk is in APFS format), because such copies do not take up any additional space. You can instead copy large files from a different volume, for example from a mounted dmg. Or if you know how to copy files using Terminal commands, you can copy/duplicate files within the disk.

    Olof Hermansson - Toontrack
    Coder

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    destructo_1
    Participant

    thanks, it works

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