By doing a Spotlight search on "iPhone," I discovered that Apple stores a very large number of files on your Mac. I found 491 files of crash logs, located in the path "Username/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/MyiPhone." The log files have file names like "MobileSafari-2007-12-27-152043.crash."
The log files appear to be detailed reports on incidents where an iPhone application crashed. Apparently, the files are transferred from the iPhone to the computer whenever you do a synch. So, we are left to wonder if they are also transferred to Apple for their review. These files are not automatically cleaned up from the hard drives, since my logs go all the way back to the summer of 2007, when I first purchased my iPhone.
It is also interesting to note that another series of much larger files are being stored on our Macs. These are placed in a folder called "iPhone Software Updates," which is a subfolder within iTunes. An example is iPhone1,1_1.0.1_1A543a_to_1C25_Update.ipsw dated 7-31-07. There are 11 of these files altogether and they take up a whopping 1.78 GB of disk space! So, I'm wondering if it's OK to delete these, or at least some of the oldest ones.
The log files appear to be detailed reports on incidents where an iPhone application crashed. Apparently, the files are transferred from the iPhone to the computer whenever you do a synch. So, we are left to wonder if they are also transferred to Apple for their review. These files are not automatically cleaned up from the hard drives, since my logs go all the way back to the summer of 2007, when I first purchased my iPhone.
It is also interesting to note that another series of much larger files are being stored on our Macs. These are placed in a folder called "iPhone Software Updates," which is a subfolder within iTunes. An example is iPhone1,1_1.0.1_1A543a_to_1C25_Update.ipsw dated 7-31-07. There are 11 of these files altogether and they take up a whopping 1.78 GB of disk space! So, I'm wondering if it's OK to delete these, or at least some of the oldest ones.