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I discovered the problem when I was trying to import FinalCut Pro media and it gave me the error that there wasn't enough space on my local hard drive. Combined with the regular data, it says I've used up 3.98 TB of my 4 TB hard drive. Why does my Mac HD have over 2 TB of purgeable data when I've only used 1.7 TB of regular data? I'm trying to understand why my Mac HD is showing 2.04 TB of purgeable data. Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. You can always do a Safe boot to clear cache files and see if this rights the situation. How to free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support Optimize storage space on your Mac - Apple Support

Have you rebooted more than once, have you run Time Machine backup to clear local snapshots. The difference between 461.02 GB - 445.75 GB is 15.27 this seems to be the issue. The funny thing is that even the data for the HD-Data says " Available: 461.02 GB (445.75 GB purgeable)." How do I go about cleaning this up and getting my iMac storage and my HD-Data to agree with each other? Its telling me that I have 969+GB used up, even though I've moved files off my iMac. Did some more digging and it looks like my Macintosh HD-Data (partition?) is the issue. Now I have 460GB available and I'm still getting that same message. Since I wanted to move a project off my iMac anyways I went ahead and did that and restarted. I looked at my system information and it said I had over 250GB.

I was trying to install software, but it was telling me that I only had around 15GB available.