My iMac keeps telling me no room on hard drive even tho i have cleaned hard drive

my iMac keeps telling me no room on hard drive even tho i have cleaned the
hard drive and still have 5 gig left, thanks

Carloyn Samit wrote: Never allow the free disk space to fall below 15% of the capacity.
This is an urban legend. First, since disk capacity varies greatly, giving this kind of percentage figure is completely worthless.
There are many variables involved in determining the amount of space to leave free: among them, the needs of the particular OS installed, installed RAM, typical need for VM, applications typically used, and anticipated need for free space overall, such as knowing one will be adding space hogging movies or other files. Much depends on the user's habits.
For one user, leaving 20-30GB free might be needed, for another 10GB or even less might suffice.
But it would be plain silly to suggest that one leave 15% of a 500GB or a 1 or 2GB drive. (75GB,150GB, 300GB respectively?) This kind of percentage suggestion was perhaps somewhat useful when drives were much, much smaller.)

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