You can show hidden files with defaults write AppleShowAllFiles -bool true killall Finder.

It contained about 2GB of old docset files.Ī good way to find large files is to sort files by size in list view after checking calculate all sizes in the view options. Library/Developer/ wasn't removed when I installed Xcode 4.3. If hibernatemode is 3, /var/vm/sleepimage takes up the same amount of disk space as the amount of RAM you have. Safari saves the contents of websites and plain text files to ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari/History/. defaults write DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2 disables saving the thumbnails.

~/Library/Caches//Webpage Previews/ was about 700 GB on my installation of 10.7. ~/Library/Autosave Information/ can contain old unsaved documents. du -sm /private/var/folders/*/*/*/*/ | sort -rn sorts the folders by size. private/var/folders/ can contain partially downloaded files or files for applications that have been removed. They are deleted automatically when you start running out of disk space though. When the program FoneDog Mac Cleaner has launched, click on ToolKit to view FileManager and click on Crush File. Click ToolKit to reveal the Mac file shredder. Follow the onscreen instructions under the dark mode on Mac on how to download and install the program. When a backup volume is not mounted, Time Machine has saved hourly snapshots to /Volumes/MobileBackups/ on laptops since 10.7. 1.Download and install FoneDog Mac Cleaner.

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