2gb Text Files

[applelover2008]

I did a hard drive scan and found some bad things.

Text file called PCMWave at around 669mb. Under speech, alex.
Sleep image, 2gb

Can i delete these? It's a lot of file space!

 

[r.j.s]

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The sleep image is what is written when you sleep your mac, dont mess with it.

PCMWave is also important, see this thread at Apple Support Forums

 

[applelover2008]

so i have to leave 3gb of text...
kinda bad design on apples part

 

[r.j.s]

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so i have to leave 3gb of text...
kinda bad design on apples part

How is it bad design - the sleep image is the size of your RAM, it must be. (If you had 4GB of RAM, it would be a 4GB file.)

 

[applelover2008]

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How is it bad design - the sleep image is the size of your RAM, it must be. (If you had 4GB of RAM, it would be a 4GB file.)

thats wierd cause ive watched it grow from like 512mb to here.

 

[r.j.s]

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The only large text files you should delete are runaway log files. Those are safe to delete. Otherwise, keep away from editing things in the system folder.

 

[applelover2008]

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The only large text files you should delete are runaway log files. Those are safe to delete. Otherwise, keep away from editing things in the system folder.

ok. Wat are runaway log files?

 

[r.j.s]

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ok. Wat are runaway log files?

Whenever there is a system event, it gets saved to a log file. Normally the system keeps them under control and deletes the old ones as they get too big. Occasionally, it will just keep writing to the same file, and you can get huge text files.