Xcode on Mac App Store can't install , show disk space not enough

Question

I\'m using the Mac OS to install the XCode10.1.

I have 18.43GB free disk space in the mac,

but when I click the install button on the Xcode from the app store,<

Answer 1

Same thing occurred to me when I was trying to install xcode 12.0.1 from app store even though I had around 40GB of free space and the xcode 12 is taking only around 12GB. This helped me resolve the issue.

cd ~/Library/Developer
rm -rf Xcode

Hope this will help for someone in need.

Answer 2

in my MacBook had 31 GB available (14 GB purgeable), macOS 10.14.5 still said it had not enough free space to complete my purchase of Xcode 10.2, just deleted directory ~/Library/Caches/storedownloadd, started downloading.

Answer 3

I had the same problem (also a 120gb ssd), but 18gb is still not enough to install Xcode.

See this post: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/30235

Answer 4

Try installing any other small app in the App Store and then install Xcode. It worked for me. In my case, I had 40 GB empty space but could not install Xcode due to the same error. Deleting ~/Library/Caches/storedownloadd did not work for me either.

Answer 5

I also have this problem with a whopping 240GB available.

It seems that purging simply does not happen. I created a really big file, but it died because of no disk space:

paul-> dd if=/dev/zero of=~/zeroes bs=100M
dd: error writing '/Users/paul/zeroes': No space left on device
151+0 records in
150+0 records out
15728640000 bytes (16 GB, 15 GiB) copied, 33.0689 s, 476 MB/s
[~/Library/Caches ]
paul-> ls -lh ~/zeroes 
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul staff 15G Nov 17 09:27 /Users/paul/zeroes

It certainly should not have stopped at 15 GB

paul-> df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1    466G  268G  197G  58% /
/dev/disk1s4    466G  1.1G  197G   1% /private/var/vm

Oddly enough, after removing the big file, I was able to download Xcode from the App Store.

Answer 6

For me, I had an extra folder in my Macintosh HD/Volumes/ folder, Im not sure how it was created, but it was some sort of copy of my external harddrive. After deleting it, I was able to download xcode

Hope this helps