An expert on Apple Mac, journalist Glenn Fleishman, wrote about an incomprehensible problem that one of his children encountered after trying to download a game from the Steam service on a MacBook Pro with an M2 chip and an almost full SSD. The drive was not deleting unnecessary data. Various attempts to free up space on the drive were unsuccessful. Ultimately, radical measures had to be taken to completely wipe the SSD for a new installation.
This MacBook Pro had a 1TB capacity SSD and was part of a home network with regular backups via Time Machine. Initially, the children tried to empty the trash to free up space on the disk. This did not help. Glenn Fleishman's attempts to empty the trash ended with a message saying, "Operation can't be completed because the disk is full."
Later, Fleishman tried to free up space on the drive using Terminal and Disk Utility. However, in these cases too, the system complained of insufficient space to perform necessary operations. Restarting, clearing the cache, and manipulations with the recovery disk also did not lead to the desired result.
As a result, Fleishman resorted to fully erasing the drive and installing MacOS from scratch. Since Time Machine backups were created, there was hope of recovering data when everything returned to normal. However, MacOS on the restored machine found a problem with the "SMB/Samba-based network mounting procedure for Time Machine recovery." As a result, "no solution was found." Ultimately, only a small portion of files from the Time Machine backup saved on an external SSD were recovered.
In summary, Glenn Fleishman is concerned about how less experienced Mac users will handle "systemic, cascading failures like this."
Source: tomshardware
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