How to remove purgeable space?

[Mork]

I am noticing that the Mac (OS 12) is taking up 62 GB (and growing every day) purgeable space I cannot delete. I don't have any special storage options enabled in the storage tab of the Mac.

Yesterday, the purgeable space was a little over 50 GB.

Now, today, this morning, it's 62 GB.

What the heck to I do to get rid of this disk-eating cache or whatever it is?

Thanks!

(image below from Daisy Disk)

 

[george_i]

There is no need for this, the system manages it, if additional space is needed.
Anyway, DaisyDisk can delete it.

 

[Mork]

My point is that I was not happy about my disk space being eaten up and I wanted to reclaim 50 GB or so.

BTW, trying to do what you suggested above in Daisy Disk does not work.

Expanding, as suggested here, just takes you to the screen I posted above.

Appreciate your reply.

Thanks.

 

[george_i]

Strange, on my two M1 machines has worked perfectly, leaving about 10% of the space untouched.
I usually don't touch the purgeable space, I did this to answer your question (or to help you).

 

[Mork]

I appreciate it. Sorry if my reply above didn't come across that way.

 

[Oleg K.]

Did you try to click the More Info button, after expanding the "purgeable space" item? It would take you to the page where you can switch to the stand-alone version of DaisyDisk, free of charge, which is capable of deleting the "purgeable space".

The problem is that you are using the Mac App Store version of DaisyDisk, and as you may know, all apps in the Mac App Store are mandatorily "sandboxed", which limits what the apps can do. Deleting purgeable space is one of the things a sandboxed app cannot do. To work around this limitation, we offer our App Store customers to switch to the more powerful stand-alone version of DaisyDisk, free of charge. Here is the direct link to the self-service license migration page:

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[Mork]

Thank you!!! Problem fixed.