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1. iAMkenough · 1790013684 · focus · HN ↗

   Note that storage space taken up by local models is not reclaimed and remains dormant on your Mac until you're nearly out of space.

   1. rgovostes · 1790017039 · focus · HN ↗

      Philosophically, what is the difference between empty space and space that will be reclaimed when you need it?

      The storage medium tracks whether a cell or sector is overwritable. The filesystem tracks whether a block is allocated. And the OS tracks whether a cache is evictable.

      At what layer do you consider the space “claimed”?

      1. ProfessorLayton · 1790018191 · focus · HN ↗

         I haven't run into this on macOS yet, but on iOS the space is not reclaimed in time to avoid running out of space even with Apple Intelligence turned off:

         - Not enough space to update iOS without a computer tether, even though there would have been if that ~13GB on my phone was actually freed up. Instead I had to delete several GB on my phone.

         - Recordings stopping due to lack of space, and again the 13GB LLM model on my phone was not removed before running into this.

         I'm actually not where if/when I'll ever get my space back, and this is on iOS 26. It takes up even more space on iOS 27, and I don't have enough free space to waste on my 256GB phone.

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