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<blockquote data-quote="lehestro" data-source="post: 1783582" data-attributes="member: 98792">Hello all. I've looked around at various forums n such. There's been some mention of this, but I've never been able to get a clear, definitive take on what's happening.I'm using High Sierra, and because of what I'm assuming is some peculiarities with APFS, my available disk space is constantly in flux. Often this isn't a problem, but sometimes it is. For example, I need massive amounts of disk space allocated for the cache folders of certain video software, and I get error messages (particularly if it's right when I boot up the computer) that says I do not have enough disk space.The amount of space Finder reported available today ranged from 4GB-138GB. Omnidisksweeper seems confused as well. I often go to the menu bar Apple Icon&gt;About This Mac&gt;Storage and this seems to get my file system to recalculate the available space.My question is: what exactly is going on? Why is my available space seemingly always in flux? It should be noted that I do not use iCloud drive, and I have &quot;optimize storage&quot; in the iCloud system settings turned to 'off'.I used to be assiduous in managing my disk space availability, but now it's chaos. Many thanks to anyone that can break this down properly for me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lehestro, post: 1783582, member: 98792"] Hello all. I've looked around at various forums n such. There's been some mention of this, but I've never been able to get a clear, definitive take on what's happening. I'm using High Sierra, and because of what I'm assuming is some peculiarities with APFS, my available disk space is constantly in flux. Often this isn't a problem, but sometimes it is. For example, I need massive amounts of disk space allocated for the cache folders of certain video software, and I get error messages (particularly if it's right when I boot up the computer) that says I do not have enough disk space. The amount of space Finder reported available today ranged from 4GB-138GB. Omnidisksweeper seems confused as well. I often go to the menu bar Apple Icon>About This Mac>Storage and this seems to get my file system to recalculate the available space. My question is: what exactly is going on? Why is my available space seemingly always in flux? It should be noted that I do not use iCloud drive, and I have "optimize storage" in the iCloud system settings turned to 'off'. I used to be assiduous in managing my disk space availability, but now it's chaos. Many thanks to anyone that can break this down properly for me. [/QUOTE]

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