Using M4 MacBook Pro (Sequoia 15.6) with 97 GB free. Trying to upload a 40 GB folder from an external HDD (424 GB free) to my 2 TB iCloud+ (1.69 TB available per manage storage). Dragging folder to iCloud generates an error message: "Not enough disk space. Need 4.69 GB free". Anyone have an idea what this means? It looks like I have suffice disk space everywhere.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.6
Never mind, figured it out! It turns out I had 134 GB purgeable on the MBP HDD, leaving insufficient "real" space for the copy to MBP and then move to iCloud. Forcing the OS to delete that by creating a life in terminal large enough reduced the purgeable to less than a GB resulting in more "usable" space. Watching the copy process, it appears the folder being copied from the external HDD to iCloud results in the creation of a large purgeable file that even rebooting doesn't resolve.
Never mind, figured it out! It turns out I had 134 GB purgeable on the MBP HDD, leaving insufficient "real" space for the copy to MBP and then move to iCloud. Forcing the OS to delete that by creating a life in terminal large enough reduced the purgeable to less than a GB resulting in more "usable" space. Watching the copy process, it appears the folder being copied from the external HDD to iCloud results in the creation of a large purgeable file that even rebooting doesn't resolve.
Unable to upload folder to iCloud+
