(Solved) Disk space of TV items (movies/tv programs) not returned to free when the item is deleted if the TV library is located on an external drive.

[BaggieBoy]

Not seen this reported here. I've just submitted the following bug report to Apple:

The library for the TV app is located on an external drive (APFS). When a movie or TV item is deleted, the TV app displays a dialog asking the file should be kept or sent to the Bin. If Bin is selected the file is removed from the library but never shows up in the Bin. The disk space on the used space on the external drive does not decrease. Eventually it is possible to run out of disk space even though the library is considerably smaller than the size of the drive. Using 3rd party disk analysis tool shows all the space that had been occupied by the deleted files is “inaccessible”.

Disk space cannot be recovered using the Disk Util “First Aid” option. The only way to get the space back is to copy the library to another drive, erase the original drive and then copy the library back.

 

[maverick100]

Is this on an SSD or HD? My TV and Music files are store on an external 18tb HDD it is formatted as OSX Extended (Journaled). I don't have this problem. If there is anything I can test and check let me know. I several external drives; both SSD and HDD that I can use to test and configure.

 

[BaggieBoy]

It's an SSD. The system in question is a Mac mini M1 running the latest Monterey 12.1 beta. The external drive is connected using USB-C and is a Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 installed in a Sabrent USB 3.2 Type-C Enclosure.

 

[BaggieBoy]

It's reproducible. After I had erased and copied the TV back to the external SSD I ran "Disk Space Analyzer" and it showed no inaccessible disk space. I then deleted two episodes of a TV series, the files were around 6GB total size. Instead of the free space increasing by 6GB, I now see I have 6GB "inaccessible".

 

[BaggieBoy]

I figured out where the disk space had gone, it was being used by a CarbonCopyCloner local snapshot. I do use CCC to backup the external drive to another once a week. I've now turned off the option in CCC.