App updated ─ free space Bug

I am updating a 10 GB via the App Store application. I have 50 GB of free space on my hard drive of 250 GB, but it says there is not enough free space to update.

Does not help restart. I saw an old post here saying that I could delete the App Store cache to fix this, but the cache does not seem to be kept in the library folder there called. A way around this problem? Thank you.

First of all, the App Store does not have a facility that would leave less than the minimum amount of available space on the boot that Apple considers necessary volume, which is about 8 GB. The application is downloaded in the form of archive compressed which usually grow about twice its size. Expanded files and archive will be present at the same time, so the actual amount of space required is approximately three times the size of archive.

If you try to add a large amount of data at once, and you receive an alert about the lack of space, then in the menu bar, select

 ▹ System Preferences... ▹ Time Machine

If there is a padlock icon in the lower left corner of the preferences window, click on it to unlock the settings and to authenticate. Turn off the Machine time and then back on. Close the window.

Restart the computer. Test.

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