Issues with downloading/Mail/Installing software indicating disk full when it isn't

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Issues with downloading/Mail/Installing software indicating disk full when it isn't

Hi,

I have a Mac running Catalina. I have been getting the following issues:

the mail program keeps going into error with the following message:
- Mail cannot save information about your mailboxes because there isn’t enough space in your home folder.
when I try to download files from either Safari or Chrome they won't complete download
Installing a program that needs circa 40MB says there isn't enough disk space.

These issues would point to a drive being full or nearing capacity however I only have a single volume which is a 1.08TB drive. Currently it is showing as 224.01GB free with 843.98GB used. In addition I have also tried deleting quite a bit of stuff (circa 100GB). Anyone got any ideas what the issue is?

Posted on Oct 16, 2019 5:01 PM

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miller_andy Author

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Nov 6, 2019 10:33 AM in response to miller_andy

this hasn't been solved (finger trouble). It has now been referred by apple support to the Engineering team who have said they have seen this a couple of times and are in the process of developing a software fix for it

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Nov 26, 2019 5:51 PM in response to miller_andy

sooner the better...I'm just using the web interfaces to my imap accounts until it's resolved. I, personally, think it has something to do with time machine local snapshotting. When I clean up the local snapshots, things start working better....for a short while only.

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miller_andy Author

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Oct 16, 2019 5:02 PM in response to miller_andy

I have also run a 'first aid' through disk utility with no issues found

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