When one of my iMac's hard drives became full, I learned about some inconsistencies of deleting files on OSX 10.12.2. I have two 2016 iMacs on my desk. One of them is full of movies and files from the last 25 years, and music and games and all kinds of stuff, and its Terabyte hard drive is only half full.
The other iMac, same age, same OS, has no movies, some music, and I use it only for work, this Mac has less than 500 megs free, no matter what files I deleted on that computer. I was getting mad, copying 30 gigs of judgment PDFs to a backup disk and to my other "fun"computer, and that other Mac hard drive became a bit more than half full. I kept repeating this for every app and file I could on the "running out of space" Mac, and the darned Mac never got more disk space available. I deleted 100 gigs of files, emptied the trash, and one of my OSX 10.12.2 iMacs still said no more disk space.
Finally, I deleted some songs from iTunes, and them emptied my trash, and BOOM, that Mac now had 900 megs free. So on at least one iMacs it is how big your iTunes library is, that matters most to the Mac! So, I will copy some of my files back, and just keep the positive songs and toss out the negative ones!
A program that is useful when your Mac is low on disk space is MacBooster.
UPDATE: I found the culprit, it was the Quarantine folder created by McAfee - when I uninstalled McAfee I was able to delete that 500 gig folder!
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Mark Shapiro, judgment expert, judgment broker, judgment writer, and a smile chaser. http://www.JudgmentBuy.com
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