Trying to install Catalina on a 2015 Macbook Pro that's currently running Mojave. It only has a 128GB SSD to I'm trying to clear some room so the install can happen.
Started by creating a bootable "Install MacOS Catalina" USB drive, so the install files aren't taking up space on the internal drive.
When I first boot into the Install drive and try to upgrade, it says that Macintosh HD needs another 35MB of space to install. Almost there!
Restart into Mojave, delete maybe 100MB. That should be good!
Boot back into Install drive, now Macintosh HD needs 200MB more space to install... huh?
Boot into Mojave again, and this time I find some synced Dropbox files that I don't need. Over 2GB worth! Turn off Dropbox sync, delete the files, and make sure the trash can is empty so everything is *really* being deleted.
Boot back into the Install drive... now it says that Macintosh HD needs another 500MB of free space to install. Seriously, WTF is going on?
I did notice that when I would go to "Get Info" on Macintosh HD along the way, the 'purgeable' amount kept going up. I ran a Time Machine backup, no change. At this point I have like 37 GB free and 17GB is 'purgeable'. The more I delete, the more free space it's telling me that I need in order to install. I don't know what to do.
Started by creating a bootable "Install MacOS Catalina" USB drive, so the install files aren't taking up space on the internal drive.
When I first boot into the Install drive and try to upgrade, it says that Macintosh HD needs another 35MB of space to install. Almost there!
Restart into Mojave, delete maybe 100MB. That should be good!
Boot back into Install drive, now Macintosh HD needs 200MB more space to install... huh?
Boot into Mojave again, and this time I find some synced Dropbox files that I don't need. Over 2GB worth! Turn off Dropbox sync, delete the files, and make sure the trash can is empty so everything is *really* being deleted.
Boot back into the Install drive... now it says that Macintosh HD needs another 500MB of free space to install. Seriously, WTF is going on?
I did notice that when I would go to "Get Info" on Macintosh HD along the way, the 'purgeable' amount kept going up. I ran a Time Machine backup, no change. At this point I have like 37 GB free and 17GB is 'purgeable'. The more I delete, the more free space it's telling me that I need in order to install. I don't know what to do.