Xcode 10.2 space required

Question

So I just updated my Mac with the latest macOS version 10.14.4 (18E226) but had to delete Xcode to make some space for updating the OS.

Currently I have 37 GB of free space, still while downloading Xcode from the App Store it shows

There is not enough disk space available to install the product.

How much space is required?

I have already tried clearing all cache files.

Answer 1

I was having the same problem. Even though macOS shows enough free space it does not have it as it accounts purgeable space as usable but I guess the installation of Xcode for some reason is not able to claim it. A lot of space if probably held by TimeMachine local backups. You can claim space back by freeing that space with the terminal command

tmutil thinlocalsnapshots / 10000000000 4

This frees 10GB (took a little over a minute on my 2014 MBPro)

It worked for me. I had 40GB free, even after deleting my previous xCode version but was unable to install. After running that tmutil command it worked

Answer 2

For Xcode 12 - 30 Gb free, 40 Gb free - show an error "There is not enough disk space available to install the product."

So in my case - I clean my ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS DeviceSupport/ folder, 50 Gb free - and now I can download Xcode 12...

Launchpod shows it needs to download 11,16 Gb, but you need ~50Gb of free space

Answer 3

XCode 12 requires you to have 40GB or more disk space or you will get the error "There is not enough disk space available to install the product.".

One can try to make space by clearing old iOS simulators from "~/Library/Developer/Xcode/iOS\ DeviceSupport/" and "~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/" or removing old xCode.

Answer 4

I used to download the Xcode xip file and copied it to an external drive. Then I open the Archive Utility app -> Preference -> Save expanded files to the Application directory. Now open the Xcode xip file from external drive it'll extract the file to the application directory of mac. No need to have more space, I had only 18GB of free space.

Answer 5

i had 42 GB Space and i was successfully able to install xcode 12.4 via app store.

Answer 6

Just found another solution which worked for me: download Xcode from Apple Developer, and after the download completes open it with "Archive Utility".

Answer 7

Though you already got the answer. But I have solved this in other simple way by following steps

Run this command in terminal to install/expand the Xcode

xip -x ~/Downloads/Xcode_12.4.xip   

For Application directory installation

cd ~/Applications #otherwise, will unpack into home dir

Note : You can use ur desired Xcode version like Xcode_10.2 or something else

Download Xcode manually from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

Answer 8

In my case, using also Android Studio to develop, I have to delete old simulators in folder:

/Users/UserName/.android/avd 

Answer 9

➼ All you have to free 30+ gb space and then restart laptop.

Note: Restarting your laptop is must in order to get rid of this warning (There is not enough disk space available to install the product)

Answer 10

I guess you should check how much does your system file take up in your mac. I cleaned up a lot of redundant files categorized in system and left with 30GB free space, the Xcode.xip works!