<ul><li>The Finder inaccurately reported available and used disk space, showing an error of over 50% in calculating free space.</li><li>Purgeable space in macOS is controlled by the system and includes snapshots, evicted iCloud files, and purchased content.</li><li>Apple's documentation lacks coherent explanations on what qualifies as purgeable space in APFS.</li><li>CacheDelete functions to free up purgeable space for copying files to other volumes.</li><li>Precize and Sparsity utilities help identify purgeable files, aiding in space management.</li><li>Creating real free space proactively is suggested over attempting to force file purging.</li><li>The Finder's figures for free space may be outdated compared to Disk Utility and third-party applications.</li><li>CacheDelete's operations differ in Safe mode compared to standard mode, ensuring more accurate purgeable space computation.</li><li>Restarting the Mac led to the disappearance of purgeable space, highlighting ongoing issues with Finder's space calculations.</li><li>Disk Utility's figures encompass APFS volume groups, while Finder's 'Get Info' may not reflect this fully.</li></ul>

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