"There's not enough disk space...'

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CaryJ

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Hey, folks.
I keep getting this error: "There's not enough disk space available to start 'Windows 11'."
I was screen recording, ran out of storage on my Mac, and the Windows VM wouldn't load. I cleared up 500 GB (I'd been recording a while) and the VM is still saying that I don't have enough room to load Windows 11.

Not sure if there's some way to fix it, but I thought I'd reach out here. I even made a new VM and launched it, installed my games, updated everything, and the old VM still says there's not enough room to load.

I've included a screenshot, if that helps.
M1 Max MacBook Pro, 14-inch
64gb RAM, 1 TB storage
MacOS Ventura 13.0.1
 

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Update: instead of deleting my originally post, I'm sharing how I found a solution. Turns out, I had 500-ish GB in "purgeable data". You can find your purgeable data number by finding your Macintosh HD, right-clicking, selecting "Get Info', and seeing what it states there. I downloaded "Clean My Mac X" for free, ran the maintenance tab, and it fixed it. VM is back to booting up no problem.

From what I understand, MacOS would have eventually purged this data, but I'm not sure how long it would have taken to eventually get to it.

Thanks, folks.
 
It would have purged it eventually (maybe even after a simple reboot), but I'd be cautious when using utilities. CleanMyMac should be 'ok', but stay Far away from MacKeeper as I'm 100% sure it's malware.
 
I agree, but it had been 24 hours with several restarts and reboots without any of it purging, so I needed to happen sooner than later. I appreciate the feedback about MacKeeper!
 
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