Framestore full.. deleting projects, 'VIC' and 'sw_purge' does not help

Happy New Year all

deleted several projects(Project and User Settings) in order to free up storage space on my Framestore,
but the media frame store remains full even after performing the following 5 steps:

Thank you very much for any help!

Joe

1
[checking permissions of Autodesk Media Storage folder]
imac-admin@imac-admins-iMac Flamestore % ls -ld ‘Autodesk Media Storage’
drwxrwxrwx@ 103 imac-admin staff 3502 Dec 27 20:25 Autodesk Media Storage

2
[examine disk partitions]
imac-admin@imac-amins-iMac ~ % diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Flamestore 500.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data VFX-Work 400.0 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS Install macOS Catalina 99.5 GB disk0s4

3
[display partition/number of Autodesk Media Storage]
imac-admin@imac-amins-iMac ~ % /opt/Autodesk/sw/sw_df
Partition Free Total %use iFree iTotal %use
7 1644 80375 98 N/A N/A N/A

4
[trying to purge space]
imac-admin@imac-admins-iMac sw % /opt/Autodesk/sw/sw_purge -p 7 -D

5
[running vic on stonefs]
imac-admin@imac-admins-iMac sw % /opt/Autodesk/io/bin/vic -v stonefs7 -f

PS:

  • Framestore: external SSD drive connected with TB

  • archiving the actual and only project with ‘Archive Project’ does produce an archive of ~100GB in size

  • the Framestore partition is 500GB

  • Flame → Preferences → Storage → Volume Statistcs: Free Space: 9.4GB

  • Finder → File → Get Info (of 'Framestore): Capacity: 500GB, Used: 498GB, Available: 10.28GB

  • I am using Flame 2021.2 and Catalina