That is, as you can see the disk reports 142 GB as Available with 83 GB of that as purgeable.

Yet when I try I get an error stating Not enough disk space to copy, like the following image shows.

Its space that the system will delete automatically if its needed so deleting it will not increase your available disk space.

Or you can simply let it run until you are out of space in the disk and things start to stop working.

Once you have all the data over, you can combine them - adding the second file to the first, deleting the second file, etc.

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Run pwd in your home directory to get the full path name for it.

Once the large purgeable area was cleared then I could delete the temporary smaller files and copy the large one that I intended.

The gist of it is to move (as sudo ) the file to somewhere in your home directory (e.g.

DocumentsSymbolDataDelete ), reboot the machine and then delete the file.

Personal observations have been that after a couple of weeks, a reboot cleans up in the order of a gig of purgeable space.

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