"Not enough free space" when trying to install XCode even though there's ~7x more free space than required

Alright, so, I cleaned up my disk. Finder shows 63 GB free. "Storage" tab in "About This Mac" shows the same...

However, using QuickLook on my disk (one and only disk I got with computer) shows 17 GB free only?!?

df -h

Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused               ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1   113Gi   97Gi   13Gi    89% 1427126 9223372036853348681    0%   /
devfs          332Ki  332Ki    0Bi   100%    1150                   0  100%   /dev
/dev/disk1s4   113Gi  2.0Gi   13Gi    14%       2 9223372036854775805    0%   /private/var/vm
map -hosts       0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%       0                   0  100%   /net
map auto_home    0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%       0                   0  100%   /home

I am not using and never used Time Machine backups on this computer, there are no "purple bands" in "Storage" window, I tried to reindex the volume (by adding and removing a folder in Spotlight settings), my trash is completely empty, I tried to reboot couple of times...

Why is this happening??

Might want to ask support about the store, but in the mean time, try downloading from here, instead: https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

Free space on disk, and available space on a working partition/Volume via the Finder are not the same thing.

Assuming your macOS is modern, your single 'disk'/SSD has more than one partition/Volume.

You should only be concerned with what the Finder says on your boot partition. Don't be chasing ghosts, otherwise.

Did you manually download and install Xcode 10.1.xip from here, yet?

17 GB free is not nearly enough.

• The OS needs 8~12 GB free just run, at least
• The download is about 5 GB
• You need around 7 GB or more to put the unpacked files during the install
• You need around 7 GB or more for the installed files

- all at the same time...that's around 30 GB. Minimum.

Even with 50 GB free (don't forget to empty the trash), you're working yourself into a corner fast. Sounds like it's time for you to buy a bigger boot drive. Figure out how much you need, then double it, then double it again.

Good luck.

Hi, I am having the same issue. I recently upgraded to MacOS Mojave from MacOS Sierra and the Xcode application stopped launching upong upgradation. I therefore removed it using 'sudo rm -r /Applications/Xcode.app'. However when I am trying to reinstall it, it is showing not enough disk space error even though I have 30GB of disk space available.

Were you able to solve your issue after you cleaned up your disk to increase the disk space?

Thank You.

😟 Same problem for me.
I got 91GB freespace

Running latest 10.14.4

Worst thing is that I can't find xcode 10.2 from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/ currently.

Same here - I have 250GB free space

EDIT: solved it by removing a lot of purged disk space via daisydisk.

Solved too by force purge purgeable space. Follow this method:

https://www.jackenhack.com/mac-os-remove-purgeable-high-sierra/

I would say this is appstore bug.

I also have the same problem. I enrol Apple Beta program and start downloading of Mac OS Catalina. And after that xcode start to downloading from AppStore. (P.S i don't install new MacOS itself)

It strange, but it works!

Same issue here. Deleted Xcode and installed it. That worked.

The same thing happens to me and I can't solve it, I tried to create an app for my website https://espias.eu/camaras-espias/, but when I try to install XCode I get the same problem.

I would appreciate the answers.

hi

i had the same issue. But i did install xcode 11.3 successfully by following this

Step 1 - Logout from your App store accound

Step 2 - Restart your MAC

Step 3 - Sign in back to your App store and then download xcode.

Thanks