Steam not recognizing free space

[Geki]

There is a discrepancy between my actual free space on HD according to my mac and the free space according to Steam, with the latter "reading" as free only about 32% of the actual free storage space. This prevents me from installing games that would take more space. How can I solve this?

Thanks

[Папа Фидэня]

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[❤Boris✪]

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[Pyth3rEx]

Working on it... can't find a solution sadly....

BTW does Steam tell you you have exactly 0mb free space?
Thx

[Pyth3rEx]

So.... I was looking over the forums to find an answer... came back to steam and... it fixed itself???

No idea wtf just happened?

[Pilieser]

More people have mentioned this issue. I'm not sure why it fixes all of a sudden, I only can think about that Steam client runs a script everynow and then to check the disk. So maybe you just found the fix by keeping the application open for a while.


I guess more testers are needed to confirm this idea.

[cesium356]

I've 110G free on a 1TB disk, Steam says I've insufficient space for a 112MB game. "You do not have enough disk space available to run this game. Please free up some disk space and then try again." I get this for every game, no matter the size since I moved to a new computer and have no games in my local library. I'm effectively locked-out of Steam.

[cesium356]

I'll help the experiment (and maybe my own problem) by leaving the app running and checking later to see if I can install/run any games. Fingers crossed!

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[cesium356]

Well, I let it sit overnight, idle. Same result for all games, even Good, which needs just 72MB. Any ideas?

[cesium356]

Success. I did the following. I don't know which step was the solution, but here you go. This is basically re-installing steam completely. If you have downloaded and saved games this may delete files needed for those games or your saved state. Use this at your own risk. I was on a new computer with no games downloaded, so nothing to lose.

I opened a terminal and went to ~/Library/Application\ Support/Steam. There was only one file there. This is incorrect. I went up one directory and deleted the folder. You can use "rm -rf ./Steam" or use "open . " (i.e., open period). This will open the Application Support folder in Finder. Then you can drag Steam to the trash.
Then I went to /Applications (not ~/Applications) and removed Steam.app
I went to my downloads folder and opened the downloaded steam.dmg installer. It ran two passes of updates, I had to re-register my computer as a new device. I was then able to switch out of the store into my Library and download games.