I've to restart mbp more often than pc

[tikiriki]

This year like 3 times. Once it just crashed. Last year I've restarted windows only a few times due to upgrade as I don't use shutdown
I'm trying to setup mbp for work and today I've been playing with various backup applications. So having like 300GB free space, test data about maybe 10GB suddenly got notification I've like 30GB free and backup didn't work. Now I can see there's 300GB free again in purgeable area but it looks there's no way to reclaim it without restarting. And that's the issue as usually I've opened many apps and servers for my development purpose. Honestly I'm disappointed, I feel like I've no control on my storage and have to rely on macos super algo which clearly doesn't work
Edit: Ok I found option Optimize storage and it helped, don't know why it's not mentioned on reddit

 

[Slartibart]

What version of macOS? which MBP model? you are using time machine and it is creating backup snapshots on the internal drive of your MBP maybe?

 

[Alameda]

Do you have a ton of files saved with Microsoft OneDrive or some other cloud software like iCloud?

 

[bogdanw]

I don't use shutdown

Why?

Ok I found option Optimize storage and it helped, don't know why it's not mentioned on reddit

Apple Support - Free up storage space on Mac https://support.apple.com/102624
Apple Support - Optimise storage space on your Mac https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/sysp4ee93ca4/mac

 

[tikiriki]

I will answer collectively
@Slartibart mbp m1 max, up to date, tm disabled
@Alameda yes OD and icloud, about 800GB, but 95% of the content are in cloud only mode
@bogdanw I'm a dev and usually I've like 10 runnings servers, a few projects opened etc, And didn't restarted linux and windows either, just once /2-3 weeks
I've just learnt that Optimize storage button is not always displayed. I guess only when I remove cloud content. Now I've 200GB in purguable area and that button is not shown