Unable to extract Xcode 12 beta

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Created Jun ’20

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I have over 86GB free space but I am getting the error "The Archive "Xcode12_beta.xip" cannot be expanded because the selected volume doesn't have enough free space."

I have already tried emptying trash and rebooting my system. Any suggestions?

Answered by ehsan in 614149022

As a workaround, I ended up just moving the xip to a large external HDD, extracting it there, then copying the Xcode12-beta.app back over to my main volume. I had 14GB of 'purgeable' space showing in Disk Utility fwiw.

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Apple

Jun ’20

Check your volume with Utilities > Disk Utility. It's possible that some of the available space on your volume is 'purgeable' space but hasn't been purged yet. Also, if you use Time Machine, try (temporarily) turning off Back Up Automatically in Time Machine Preferences in case Time Machine is hanging on to some of the purgeable space.

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ehsan OP

Jun ’20

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As a workaround, I ended up just moving the xip to a large external HDD, extracting it there, then copying the Xcode12-beta.app back over to my main volume. I had 14GB of 'purgeable' space showing in Disk Utility fwiw.

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tobli OP

Jun ’20

I had the same issue, but was able to expand it by using xip --expand Downloads/Xcode_12_beta.xip from the command line.

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Shaim_swaysi OP

Oct ’20

hey , i have the same issue , i have downloaded xCode from Apple Developer yesterday, and I expanded it on external hard cause I don’t have enough space for it in my mac , but it still expanding from 7 hours ago and it took about 60 GB and still expanding and taking space !! how much space that xCode need to expand ? i mean should I waiting or what ? please someone help me

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stathis OP

Jan ’21

You could try this:

Open your terminal and type:

Code Block dd if=/dev/zero of=/Users/<your user name>/hugefile bs=100m

Let it work until it fills your ssd/hard drive and then:

Code Block rm ~/hugefile

Then navigate to the folder you've downloaded Xcode and:

Code Block xip -x Xcode_12.4.xip

The first 2 steps above create a hugefile and while removing it it restores the "purgable" space.

The third step expands the xip.

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bouquetjk OP

Mar ’21

I just have same issue.

I search and tried a lot method ex. using terminal etc.

but now I trying to SHUT DOWN and open it again IT WORKED !! hmmm lollll

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shubhamdeshmukh69 OP

Mar ’21

it just asks for double the space it will acquire i.e around 16GB, I make it available 33GB and it is expanding now. Good luck

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Sxb OP

Apr ’21

I tried the terminal:

chdir the the drive with the xip file.

The external drive with the xip has 279GB free space

Entered; xip --expand XCode-12.5

The expand failed for lack of space.

I changed the startup drive to one that has more free space than my usual startup drive.

Entered; xip --expand XCode-12.5

It worked!

Evidently xip needs space on both the drive with the xip file and the startup drive.

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salvasvip OP

Sep ’22

Xcode 12 can no longer be installed in monterrey (in theory), despite the error it was extracted in ~Home, move to applications, despite the restriction enter content like this: right click and show package content like this Xcode.app-> Contents->MacOS->Xcode open it or drag it to the terminal and run it. The terminal will open anyway.

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