PS let me know if this solves your issues, it would be good to spread the word if this is not just a fix for me. Running any terminal commands with elevated permissions (sudo) carries some risk - only follow these instructions if you are comfortable with this. Please note, this worked for me, it may not solve your issue Run 'sudo tmutil enablesync' to get backup back online and you should be good to goĪbout my mac->storage will have a bit of a funny turn while it sorts itself but will report correclty again in a few minutes - dont panic. VMware Fusion seemed unable to trigger the OS-level clean up of this purgeable space, and I'm not the only one to come across this issue.
Getting anxious to some users looking for the right utilizing tools to free up the purgeable space on Mac. Apple has a shortage of cleaning tool equipment and it has been an issue for a long year. Run 'df -h' again and the mobilesync volume should have dissapeared, and your space on your startup disk should be reporting the recovered space The disk space in question should have been plentiful, but a big chunk of it seemed to be being used by APFS snapshots created by Time Machine and/or Arq Backup (both enabled on my machine). Some cleaning tools like CleanMyMac are barely important and very essential for users who run a Mac computer. Run command 'sudo tmutil disablesync' and enter your password when asked
Choose a scan mode and the specific files you want to scan (if provided), and then click Scan.
If you see a volume called mobilesync, with a load of used space, thats the culprit. The usage of this Mac cleaning software is also very easy. Open terminal and run the command 'df - h' Although these were seen by about my mac as purgeable, finder was not able to see them in the same way, it seems The descrepancy in my case between the available space reported in finder and the available space in about my mac was due to local snapshots created through the time machine utlity. I finally solved this issue on my macbook air after doing much research online.