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Steam Game download causes user to wipe Mac SSD

A Steam game download filled the disk.

An Apple Mac expert has written about an unfathomable issue one of his children faced after trying to download a Steam game to an M2 MacBook Pro with an almost full SSD. You might think the problem would be like water off a duck’s back for Seattle-based technology journalist Glenn Fleishman, but increasingly technical and sophisticated attempts to free up space on the SSD failed. (Image credit: Glenn Fleishman)Attempts to use Terminal, the Mac’s powerful command line interface, also fell flat, with the system grumbling about lack of space.

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