I had noticed over the past few months that my disk space was quickly being devoured when I would use Sketch 3. I would start a work session with 5gb of free space and at the end I would only have 2gb!
I tried everything to hunt this down. I used grand perspective to find large files. It was not the common culprits that secretly eat OS X disk space - iOS backups, etc. No matter what I did, the disk space got eaten up and would not come back.
Finally figured it out today... It was the auto save cache data!
http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/20/clear-versions-history-auto-save-cache-data-in-mac-os-x/
I ran the command above and regained 136gb of space.
This is not only a problem with Sketch, any software that uses the OS X autosave can have this issue.
Interestingly, software like Clean My Mac and Grand Perspective do not identify or clear out this cache. You have to remove it manually.
I tried everything to hunt this down. I used grand perspective to find large files. It was not the common culprits that secretly eat OS X disk space - iOS backups, etc. No matter what I did, the disk space got eaten up and would not come back.
Finally figured it out today... It was the auto save cache data!
http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/20/clear-versions-history-auto-save-cache-data-in-mac-os-x/
I ran the command above and regained 136gb of space.
This is not only a problem with Sketch, any software that uses the OS X autosave can have this issue.
Interestingly, software like Clean My Mac and Grand Perspective do not identify or clear out this cache. You have to remove it manually.