[muglo] Re: useless clutter your computer saves
- From: Doug Bale <dougbale51@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:18:02 -0400
You’re right to be cautious. It ought to be a universal rule, for power tools,
politics or anything else: If you don’t know what you’re doing, don’t do it.
On Jul 24, 2014, at 2:46 PM, Don Green Dragon <fergdc@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello Doug,
>
> On 17Jul2014, at 6:03 PM, Doug Bale <dougbale@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On occasion I’ve gone into my iMac’s top library file and found up to a
>> couple of gigabytes of Mail messages duplicated there for
>> Apple-only-knows-why. This time, there was very little, but I stumbled on
>> another memory-hogging cache full of advertising images I’ve never looked at
>> except to note their and trash them. They’re all from online catalogue sites
>> where I’ve gone hunting for particular items and had to wade through pages
>> of these other items to get there.
>>
>> You might want to check on how much space your browser’s wasting with this
>> stuff: To get to the main library, if you haven’t had occasion to do that
>> before, press Go from the Finder’s main menu, hold onto the drop-down menu
>> that appears, and press Option to make the normally-hidden Library
>> destination appear in the list. Open that and all kinds of neat things show
>> up. The cache I cleared out today was at
>> Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Caches/com.apple.mail/fsCachedData
>>
>
> Interesting! But …
>
> I went to the directory that you list above and looked. Clearly Junk so I
> deleted it. However, on looking around in nearby directories I discovered
> some `caches’ that are relevant and that I know I don’t want to delete. Most
> of what showed up was too mysterious for me to understand, hence I did not
> touch what remained a mystery.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> don green dragon
> fergdc@xxxxxxx
>
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