Adventures in High Sierra...

[Dreambird]

Kinda starting to wonder if the upgrade to High Sierra was a good thing or??? Unless this sort of thing is normal? 

This is a screenshot of my internal drive (called X-Drive)... the openvpn.logs and sockets.logs keep showing up and I have no idea what they are. They aren't big files... 4kb and under, "get info" tells me they are dated Today, Nov 20/2021 and Sept 1/2018 for the openvpn.logs and Today, Nov20/2021 and Oct. 8/2016 for the sockets.logs.

What ARE these? Trying to figure out why these are all showing up here, at this rate I'll have who knows how many before long... I've never seen ANY of these here before, not even the 2 oldest.
I've looked at Console while trying to figure these out, and there my "system.log" looks like one repeating error after another.

Also a shutdown and/or restart of the computer gets me disconnected from my network so that upon restart I have to click the network item in the menubar and re-connect with my network.

[Dreambird]

This is apparently the "space" left on "X-Drive" - Available: 378.02 GB (869.4 MB purgeable)

Disk Utility reports there is 377.15GB free. The "purgeable" space grows by a bit every day so eventually do I end up with no disk space left? And who is deciding for me what I should move off my disk by reserving space for what I don't want to move off my disk?

I bought a computer with more disk space than I need so as not to have to worry about running out of disk space! Does that make any sense? I am more than just a little confused! 

[Xairbusdriver]

I would suggest you do just a bit of searching to learn what “purgeable” space on your disk is. I think you will be pleasantly surprised.

Reports of “available” or “free” disk space is similar to the message on many rear view mirrors; “Objects In The Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are.” it’s like a ‘speed’ check for web “speed”, getting two identical readings depends on chance than reality.

[Dreambird]

Many thanks, Jim... I do believe you may have saved my sanity! 
I did do more research... a lot more! It still left me a little skeptical however when I took a suggestion I found to look at About this Mac>Storage>X-Drive, chose "manage">Reduce Clutter and went through everything I managed to dump about 25GB of just "stuff" I either really didn't need anymore or duplicates etc. So my HD went from having approx. 118GB on it with just over 1GB purgeable space to approx. 98GB on it with approx. 793MB purgeable space and that's with about 760MB of stuff sitting in the Trash for just long enough for me to decide if anything really is needed which I rather doubt after a couple of days of no complaints. Once I settle that it should be even better!

Also figured out after much experimenting that the openvpn.logs and sockets.logs showing up in the root of my HD were being put there by OnyX after running Maintenance and can apparently be deleted from what my research tells me. One is apparently generated by an app I don't even have anymore but a search in EasyFind turned up just one related file left in ~Library/Application Support and the other beats me as I have no VPN. I have Malwarebytes but doubt it's that as it's not a VPN and there have been no complaints about the logs in the Trash.

So far as the "system log" in Console... what it's complaining about is all working fine... so I think it's time to hit "ignore." The only issue I still have is being disconnected from my network upon a computer restart. Research says it happens not only in High Sierra but in El Capitan and Sierra too... in all the years I ran El Capitan it happened only very, very rarely. So if I restart I just have to select my network from the menubar WiFi icon and it connects now. Some people have it happen even after waking up from sleep, luckily I've not had that happen so far... it's always connected after sleep!