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Available Disk Space Constantly in Flux w/ APFS, High Sierra
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<blockquote data-quote="lehestro" data-source="post: 1784382" data-attributes="member: 98792"><p>Unfortunately I can't get a bigger drive. The flash drives on the 2013 Mac Pros are insanely expensive, especially considering it'd be for beefing up 4-5 year old tech. (I think a TB is $1k? Or $800 or something). And while I see what you're saying, and I think you pointed to some things that I wasn't entirely considering, the fact remains that I have 46GB alloted for media cache files. This is for premiere and after effects. What happens with this system (at least, historically) is as that cache allotment fills up, older cache files are deleted, so you never go past your maximum. I'm used to this sort of fluctuation on my hard disk. With that 46GB full, I still should have ~120GB free.<em> And sometimes I do.</em> That's the weird thing. </p><p></p><p>I've had this computer for many years, and have been using these programs for longer. The crux is, this was never ever an issue until High Sierra and APFS (I skipped Sierra). Something is afoot. I've found some other threads have mentioned a similar sort of problem. </p><p></p><p>Another thing to note: if everything could be attributed to what you're talking about, then there should be no flux as I sit still, and stop working. However, when I do just that, if I'm at something really low (say 11GB), I can slowly watch the available space creep back available. There should be no reason for this, except the OS is up to something; this isn't something Adobe's programs. This happens, at first, about 300MB at a time, but seems to increase exponentially, not linearly. I've attached a screen cap of this. [MEDIA=vimeo]252635382[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lehestro, post: 1784382, member: 98792"] Unfortunately I can't get a bigger drive. The flash drives on the 2013 Mac Pros are insanely expensive, especially considering it'd be for beefing up 4-5 year old tech. (I think a TB is $1k? Or $800 or something). And while I see what you're saying, and I think you pointed to some things that I wasn't entirely considering, the fact remains that I have 46GB alloted for media cache files. This is for premiere and after effects. What happens with this system (at least, historically) is as that cache allotment fills up, older cache files are deleted, so you never go past your maximum. I'm used to this sort of fluctuation on my hard disk. With that 46GB full, I still should have ~120GB free.[I] And sometimes I do.[/I] That's the weird thing. I've had this computer for many years, and have been using these programs for longer. The crux is, this was never ever an issue until High Sierra and APFS (I skipped Sierra). Something is afoot. I've found some other threads have mentioned a similar sort of problem. Another thing to note: if everything could be attributed to what you're talking about, then there should be no flux as I sit still, and stop working. However, when I do just that, if I'm at something really low (say 11GB), I can slowly watch the available space creep back available. There should be no reason for this, except the OS is up to something; this isn't something Adobe's programs. This happens, at first, about 300MB at a time, but seems to increase exponentially, not linearly. I've attached a screen cap of this. [MEDIA=vimeo]252635382[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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