Freeing purgeable space on Big Sur

[grxgghxrpxr]

Hello, I've recently found some commands that help free purgeable space on macOS.

• ‘mkdir ~/largefiles’.
• ‘dd if=/dev/random of=~/largefiles/largefile bs=15m’.
• After 5 minutes, press Ctrl+C.
• ‘cp ~/largefiles/largefile ~/largefiles/largefile2’ etc.
• ‘rm -rf ~/largefiles/’.

This has worked brilliantly for me on macOS Catalina, but since upgrading to Big Sur, it says largefiles not found even though I'm certain I've just created this folder just one second prior.

Are there different commands we have to type for Big Sur?

Thanks
Gregg

 

[mikzn]

There are some great options for reviewing and purging files in the "About this Mac" menu < Storage Tab - click Manage...

That is my "go to" for reviewing large files I don't need or Videos / Movies that we downloaded / duplicated etc. - once you get to the "Reduce Clutter" section you can drill down by file size and quicky size up what is taking up your space

I posted some screen shots on another thread it if you are interested - see this post # 97 on another thread

hope that helps

 

[grxgghxrpxr]

There are some great options for reviewing and purging files in the "About this Mac" menu < Storage Tab - click Manage...

That is my "go to" for reviewing large files I don't need or Videos / Movies that we downloaded / duplicated etc. - once you get to the "Reduce Clutter" section you can drill down by file size and quicky size up what is taking up your space

I posted some screen shots on another thread it if you are interested - see this post # 97 on another thread

hope that helps

Thank you for this, but I prefer to use this way to get rid of it straightaway if that makes sense. I'm just a little confused as to why Big Sur says the folder doesn't exist when it clearly does.