Disk space problem, I delete files and the available status shown is not altered.

[Mr.Heisenberg]

Equipment: MacBook Pro
MacOS: Monterrey

Dear colleagues, I would like to ask if any of you have experience of having dealt with this or similar problem and what alternative or possible solution you recommend.
It has been happening to me for a while, but the most noticeable change happened to me a few days ago when when deleting more than 50GB Approx. Note that the “Disk Utilities” indicator bar had no impact on it.

However, if I proceed to look at “About this MAC” > “Storage” there I can see the total available disk space.

And I tried restarting the SMC and PRAM, NVRAM and I had no changes when carrying out these processes.
Can anyone tell me what solution I can have in this regard without updating my MacOS?

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

How do you delete files? If you delete them via Finder, they will be moved to trash, where they stay until trash is emptied.

 

[Mr.Heisenberg]

How do you delete files? If you delete them via Finder, they will be moved to trash, where they stay until trash is emptied.

Dear, the trash can is empty! That's why I'm asking what other alternative I can do. I use Cleanmymac and still the free space is not updated.

 

[msephton]

Restart.

What is purgeable disk space?

When the Finder works out how much space is available on disk, what does it count as being “purgeable”? The answer may surprise you.

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[Mr.Heisenberg]

I found the solution! The problem was TimeMachine!
running the command in terminal:

tmutil listlocalsnapshots /

sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots "2023-12-11-123740"

I was able to solve the problem of the displayed space!

 

[TriciaMacMillan]

You’ve just deleted your latest backups. Local snapshots are automatically deleted after they‘ve been written to the backup medium.

 

[Mr.Heisenberg]

You’ve just deleted your latest backups. Local snapshots are automatically deleted after they‘ve been written to the backup medium.