MacBook Storage Fluctuating Rapidly
I just had the most awful experience these past 2 hours.
I originally had 45 ish (probably) GB of free space on my Mac. I've been dabbling with python scripts using FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) and never had this issue and don't know whether or not it was related.
A few apps gave me notifications (e.g. chrome) that my disk was running low, upon looking in Finder, my disk space was quickly reducing from 20GB of free space down to 100 MB. I tried rebooting 3 or 4 times, and the same issue would happen where it would start between 15-30 GB of free space, and in about a minute or two would dive down to 100 MB of space. The worst case scenario happened, and my Mac would boot but halt signing in, and wouldn't sign in after 2 reboots. I booted up recovery mode, and luckily knew how to use the terminal to delete about 3 GB worth of files (Random App install images I didn't need). Rebooted and signed it perfectly fine, Finder proceeded to do the same thing starting at 10 ish GB of free space, diving down to 6 GB this time, then rising back up to 46 GB. It is now thankfully stable.
At the very start of this, I used disk inventory x to re-measure the capacity by indexing files, of which consumed 920 GB of space out of the 994 GB disk capacity, so I knew it was a bug rather than a lack of space. I don't know whether or not this was because of a forced software update, even though I have automatic updates turned off, and it doesn't seem like any sort of update occured.
Odd.
Lemme know your thoughts.
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.6