Syncthing for Mac doesn't consider purgeable space as free

What happened?

I'm running a larger copy operation in my home network, and frequently, Syncthing v2.0.14 on my MacBook Pro M4 (MacOS Sequoia 15.7.5) will stop synchronization with the following message: syncing: insufficient space in folder "(folder name)" (5qgr2-yj9iv) (/Users/jan/Sync/(folder name)): current 10.6 GB < required 29.0 GB

However, when I ask Finder how much free space I have, it reports back a significantly higher number (in my case, ~96 GB -- enough to copy over that file).

After some research, I found out that it looks like Syncthing looks at free space the same way that the "df" CLI tool would, which reports for me:

> df -l -h .
Filesystem      Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk3s5   926Gi   896Gi   8,5Gi   100%    1,9M   89M    2%   /System/Volumes/Data

On deeper inspection, I found that there is a concept in macOS called "purgeable space", i.e. space that macOS reports as free in Finder, as not free in df, and will only actually be made available once macOS recognizes the need by itself.

You can view the difference in Finder's HD Info screen:

That leads to some weird workarounds where users create large empty files on the command line until finally macOS gives way and purges the space, because there doesn't seem to be a way to force the OS to purge.

So I hope Syncthing can find another way of measuring free space in macOS, or maybe somebody even figures out how to force the OS to do a purge.

Syncthing version

v2.0.14

Platform & operating system

macOS arm64

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